Raging Love

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Letting Go - A Mitchell Family Series Book One (Contemporary Romance)

Folding Hearts – A Mitchell Family Series Book Two

Hope’s Chance (Contemporary Romance)

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Absum

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everyone who has made this series the success that it is. I am forever grateful.

Thanks to my family and my faith

With them, all things are possible

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Lowes

Chapter 1

Colt

I think it all started with Ty and Miranda getting married. I mean, it makes everything easier to be able to blame someone else other than myself
for everything that was happening
. For two years
,
I had given Savanna my heart and l
ooked forward to our wedding
.
Everything was
in order for the big day. We had restored the old red
barn
.
Conner and I had
s
pent ho
urs installing overhead lights and running that damn speaker wire throughout the rafters in the ceiling. The decorations were delivered and beginning to be set up.

We were ready for this
.

After the family had finally calmed down and realized that Ty and Miranda were in fact married and pl
anned
on raising her daughter Bella
together,
they
wanted to do something for them
. To
be able to
better accept things, we all agreed to let them renew their vows in the barn. It was decorated
and setup for a wed
ding anyway. The family was already
together, and although they didn’t have a guest list anything like Savanna and I, they didn’t care.

The service really helped everyone accept
their unexpected relationship, myself included. I say unexpected lightly, because most of us could tell there was always some kind of attraction between them. Believing that either one of them would ever settle down was hard to do, especially with each
other. It was extra
hard for me because I
was related
to both of them.
Miranda’s mother and my mother were sisters and Ty’s father and
my
father
were
brothers
.

Ty and Miranda were not monogamous people. The fact that they were now so co
nsumed in their relationship had
left
us all speechless.
I think it was hardest on Van. I never doubted her love for me, but there were several recent circumstances that felt like a knife was being shoved directly into my chest.  The first happened a couple months ago when Savanna went to North Carolina to get her car and go dress shopping. She walked in on Ty and Miranda, and from what she
described,
it was not something she would ever want to picture.

I knew that neither of them
were
modest
,
so I could only assume what she had exactly walked in on.
Savanna was a more conservative kind of person. Every now and
again,
she would get a little freaky, but normally she was qui
e
t a
nd modest. There was no way in H
ell she
would ever be caught
dead in
anything Miranda considered going out attire. The girl left little to the imagination. I think that is what always got her into so much trouble. She dated the wrong guys because she liked the attention they gave her. Ty was the male
version of
Miranda. He cheated on Savanna for the attention they gave him. I’m not sorry he did either.
If it
weren’t
for his
indiscretion
s
,
I wouldn’t have found the love of my life.

Savanna was everything to me. That’s why when she started acting funny, as a result of
Ty;
I started to get worried about our relationship. After her weekend in North Carolina, it took a good week for her to come clean and confess what she had caught them doing. Part of me wanted to drive out there and kick the shit out of Ty, but it takes two to tango, even Savanna and I knew that. After realizing that she was more hurt about the secret, instead of the fact that Ty was
claiming
to love another woman, especially one that was my family
, it made it all easier to take
.

We talked things out and prepared for wh
en they came to Kentucky for our
wedding. It was funny. I think at first
they thought
they could hide their relationship. On their first night here, Savanna and I had to pull them apart at a bar. I found out they had got married when I cornered Ty in the
men’s
room. He got all defensive and insisted that he loved her. When I told him the family
wouldn’t
stand
for it, he blurted out how we
couldn’t do anything about it since they were married.

To keep my fiancée from going all crazy, I decided to keep it a sec
ret for them. As much as I
didn’t
want to believe this,
I’m
pretty sure that later that night they got it on in my bathroom at the house. They claimed that Miranda was throwing up, but it was a little too convenient for me to believe. I saw how fast Ty went up to bed and heard him leaving when everyone left that night.

The secret only lasted a few more hou
rs.  The moment that Bella
saw Ty
,
she started running toward him calling him ‘daddy’. The sudden gasps in the room were filled with an
hour’s
worth of explaining.

Savanna really had a hard time dealing with their news. She saw that ring on Miranda’s finger and bolted out of the room. I felt sick, almost like she was jealous of Miranda and wanted Ty back. She later explained that it wasn’t anything like that. It was a good thing. I don’t know if I could ever be able to take losing Savanna. That girl meant the world to me.
When it was all said and done, Savanna agreed that they should renew their vows in the barn.

The service was short and sweet and the family really seemed to be accepting Ty and Miranda’s marriage. Bella was a daddy’s girl and
Ty took his new title with determination
. They were
inseparable
and if I ever doubted that he was serious, after seeing them for only a few days
,
I realized they really were crazy about each other.

In fact, for the next three days they were almost sickening. I showed affection with Savanna no matter where we were, but Ty and Miranda couldn’t keep their hands off of each other. The only one
s
to appreciate their love more than them, was Miranda’s mother and of course Bella.
My aunt Karen had struggled as a single mother and I think all she ever wanted was for her daughter to calm down and settle into a mo
re structured lifestyle. I never
thought it would be with Ty, but he was very devoted to those girls.

Three days before our wedding is when everything really went to shit. The
newspaper
had
a featured
spot about me marrying Savanna at the ranch.
I’m
pretty sure that is how word got out about it being in the barn.

Ty and Miranda were staying in the main house, in Miranda’s old room.  Bella still had her own room there, so it was easier.  We had all had a nice family dinner and sat around playing cards until around midnight. Savanna and I drove one of the golf carts back to our place and Conner and Aunt Karen did the same and headed to their place.

At three in the
morning,
we got the call from my mother. The phone ringing at that time of morning scares the bejesus out of anyone, because it is always an emergency. My mother’s voice was so panicked. “COLT GET UP HERE FAST,” she screamed into the phone.

I jumped out of bed and started throwing on a pair of jeans. Savanna sat up watching me. “What are you doing babe?”

“Somethin’s wrong. I gotta get to the main house.” I didn’t even stop to kiss Savanna as I flew out the door.

Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw when I walked out onto my front porch.

I could see the flames even from my house. Something was on fire and it was big. I no sooner jumped on the golf cart and immediately heard the fire horns. We lived about ten miles from town, but late at night you could hear those sirens if they sounded.

I had forgotten my cell phone to call Conner, but hoped my mother had already done so. As I got
closer,
I saw exactly what was on fire.

It was the barn.

Giant flames were coming out of t
he main barn doors. The old hay
loft was fully engulfed. Ty was running around without a shirt, trying to get a hose close enough to slow it down at least. “We have to do something,” he yelled.

“There’s nothing we can do,” I said under my breath.

Being that the structure of the barn was made from wood, I knew there was little that we could do. I crouched down on the ground and threw my hands over my head. We had worked on that barn for months. For two
years,
it was all Savanna had talked about. At Ty and Miranda’s
party,
she had been so excited. I didn’t care about the money or even the
barn;
it was Savanna who my heart ached for.