Carson deliberately stayed home the day Adele was set to leave Last Chance Ranch. Scarlett and Hudson had told him she’d moved up her departure date, and he’d asked if he could just stay home so he wouldn’t accidentally run into her.
Since their last kiss two weeks ago, he’d seen her a few times and it had been seven shades of awkward each time. Worse than the yelling matches in the parking lot and outside her cabin, because now he knew her. Now he couldn’t have her, and he knew it.
He wondered if Last Chance Ranch was where he was supposed to be. The thought of leaving this pretty piece of country for the unknown had his stomach in knots, but he wasn’t sure he could stay here after Adele left.
But that meant he’d have to leave tomorrow, and he had nowhere to go.
He’d had friends in Mo
