HER CALLAHAN FAMILY MAN by Tina Leonard

have no business being married, but now that we are, I have no intention of letting you use me to oust your siblings from their ranch. You Callahans can work all that out.”
    “You forget you’re a Callahan now.”
    She hadn’t forgotten. But in her heart, she knew her husband still considered her a Cash, even if he didn’t admit it.
    She’d always be a Cash to him—and likely hers wasn’t the family tree he’d ever hoped to graft to his. “I’m a Callahan by name only, according to what you’re saying. Everything else is just business.”
    “It’s just business until you decide you want more,” Jace said. “As I recall, you’re not exactly immune to me. I’m a patient man. I’m willing to wait for you to see the light.”
    Outraged, Sawyer glared at him. “You’re not a patient man. That’s why we were married in a quickie Vegas wedding! You couldn’t wait to have a reason to throw your name into the hat for the land raffle.”
    He smiled again. “The fact that I’m going to be a father of twins definitely gives me an edge,” he said, teasing, trying to get her goat.
    He was succeeding royally.
    “This was a terrible idea,” Sawyer said. “It’s what happens when there’s no plan.”
    He laughed once more. “It’s going to work. We have no choice.”
    Not the tender nothings she’d always hoped to hear on her wedding day. “What a sweet sentiment.”
    “Kiss me and you’ll get more sweetness, babe.”
    “No, thank you.” She wished she could. She’d love to snuggle up against his chest. The problem was that his mouth got in the way, communicating his inner bad boy. Which never failed to rile her.
    “After Jason and Ashley are born, you and I are going our separate ways,” she said.
    “You’re not going to help me get my share of the land?”
    “I suggest you get a good lawyer for that.”
    He shrugged. “We have plenty of those.”
    She looked at him curiously. “Have you ever tried telling Galen that you want a share of the ranch?”
    “No. I prefer to do it the honest way. Marriage and babies.”
    He was impossible. Like all the Callahans, he had a unique thought process. And she was too tired to think through the rabbit trail that was her husband’s brain. “I’m going to nap.”
    “Good idea. I’ll still be here when you wake up.”
    “Lucky me.” Sawyer snuggled under the blanket. “Remember—straight back to Rancho Diablo.”
    She closed her eyes. When she awakened, she’d be that much closer to home.
    At last.

Chapter Five
    Jace waited for Sawyer to wake up, hoping she’d nap awhile longer. His little wife was sweet, but she had an impressive independent streak, and when she opened her sexy blue eyes and realized they were on the road to a small town in Colorado, there was going to be serious unhappiness happening in his truck.
    It wasn’t the way he wanted to start his marriage.
    Almost as if she sensed his unease, Sawyer opened her eyes, glancing at him. He supposed the hesitant expression on his face probably alerted her that something was going on, because she sat up, looking for a road marker, and found the Welcome to Colorado state sign instead.
    She whipped around to glare at him. “What are you doing?”
    “It wasn’t my idea.”
    “It sure wasn’t mine!”
    “No. Running Bear’s.”
    “Running Bear told you we should take a side trip to Colorado?”
    Jace nodded. “He called while you were asleep. Asked us to stay away. Just for a few days. Apparently your uncle Storm...” Jace stopped, not wanting to go on.
    “What about my uncle?”
    “Your uncle is staying at his old place. He moved in there for protection.”
    “From what? Tell me, Jace. Don’t sugarcoat it.”
    “Nothing exciting,” he said. “Just a precaution.”
    “It’s not a precaution,” Sawyer said, “if my uncle and his wife have moved back to his old house, a place you now own because he didn’t want trouble anymore. The trouble he was trying avoid was between you