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with Tamara, aside from their shared history on the ranch together, made Jax wonder at his past failures. They had necessitated him returning to the family homestead as he’d promised his father he would if the rodeo gig didn’t work out. He hated dwelling on it, but Tamara’s return brought on a bout of nostalgia that Jax hadn’t allowed himself in years, forcing him to put his feelings about his father and his past under a microscope for the first time in a long time.
    Football had been the only thing that distinguished and distanced him from his brother and the work they both did on the ranch.
    Football had been the only thing that belonged to him. The more he excelled at it, the more he understood exactly why Tamara had been so passionate about the law and going to school away from home.
    When he’d been in school, even though he hadn’t lived on campus, he’d had a sense of freedom and fulfillment that living on the ranch had never afforded him.
    When he’d gotten injured and could no longer play, at least not competitively, he couldn’t help feeling that his father rejoiced in his setback. He knew his pop wasn’t being mean-spirited. The ol’ man had just wanted him home, by any means necessary and even at the cost of Jax’s aspirations. His pop came from the old school, and believed in a hard and honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay. He tried to rouse in Jax and Jess the same enthusiasm he had for The Double R. The ranch made upt their heritage, he always told them, and would pass down to them and their sons and daughters after all.
    Thus, Jax and Jess needed to take an active interest in the ranch’s success, and failure, as soon as and as much as possible.
    Jax hated that he couldn’t find the same sense of satisfaction at working the ranch as his brother and father. He often wondered what he missed inside him and what kind of a pariah he would be if they knew just how much he resented having to come back home after only four years on the rodeo circuit.
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    Would Pop wash his hands of him the same way Bailey had washed his of Tamara if he found out the circuit still kept his blood warm, that the call of competition still drove him?
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Chapter 3
    Tamara deplaned at Vail/Eagle County Airport not knowing what to expect or what kind of reception she would get from her father. She didn’t even know who would be picking her up from the airport, only that someone would and not to worry .
    Jeremiah had made the arrangements. She trusted him. She knew he had something up his sleeve though. She had been suspicious from the moment she got off the phone with him to call her travel agent right to the moment she’d boarded her plane at Kennedy Airport.
    He’d been evasive about aspects of her father’s accident enough to make her antennae go up. Jeremiah’s caginess led her to believe that her father’s injury proved worse than he had revealed or that her father wasn’t even aware of her trip, and probably wouldn’t approve of her traveling half-way across the country to see him laid up and incapacitated. Either possibility did not sit well with Tamara’s conscience.
    Much like Jeremiah, her father demonstrated pride and
    stubbornness. And herein lay the problem and why they hadn’t spoken in almost two decades—her pride and stubbornness.
    When she put it into that perspective, palpable regret coursed through her until she remembered why she wasn’t speaking to her father.
    Tamara headed to baggage retrieval with her one carry-on strapped slung over one shoulder. The memories of her last few months at The Double Rcame back to her in a rush of unaccustomed nostalgia that nearly keeled her over.
    Damn, she had thought she’d gotten over the place by