Dancing in the Moonlight - Harlequin.com

RAEANNE THAYNE
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“Why? Guillermo loves this place! He has poured
his heart into the Luna. It belongs to him as much as
us. He owns part of the ranch, for heaven’s sake. You
can’t fire him!”
“So you think I’m a crazy woman, too?”
“I didn’t say that. Did Guillermo call you crazy?”
Her mother and her father’s brother had always
seemed to get along just fine. Guillermo had been a
rock of support to both of them after Abel’s death and
had stepped up immediately to run the ranch his brother
had loved. She couldn’t imagine what he might have
done to anger her mother so drastically that she would
feel compelled to fire him—or what she would have said
to make him quit.
“This makes no sense, Mama! What’s going on?”
“I have my reasons and they are between your tío and
me. That is all I will say about this to you.”
Her mother had a note of finality in her voice but
Maggie couldn’t let the subject rest.
“But Mama, you can’t take care of things here by
yourself! It’s too much.”
“I will be fine. I am putting an ad in the newspaper.
I will find someone to help me. You are not to worry.”
“How can I not worry? What if I talk to Guillermo
and try to smoothe things over?”
“No! You are to stay out of this. You cannot smooth
this over. Sometimes there are too many wrinkles
between people. I will hire someone to help me but for
now I am fine.”
“Mama…”
“No, Magdalena.” Her mother stuck her chin up,