CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
“YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO this, Max. We could just disappear and he’d never find us.”
Max scooped food from a plate filled with macaroni and cheese and boiled hot dogs. He’d made her cook it and sit down to eat with him but Nita had no appetite. Her dinner sat untouched.
“If you’ve ever had any feelings for me...” Her voice trailed off as Max turned a glare on her.
She watched him shovel food like a starving man for another minute. With his curly, black hair and piercing blue eyes he was a good-looking man. And he could be charming when he wanted to. But Max was disturbed. Even without the souring influence of his father.
Nita had never met the man who’d called himself Max’s father before he showed up in her rooms at the ranch. Several times over the course of their ma
