Welcome to Ransom, Texas, where the family ties bind and love runs hot. One of the juciest pieces of gossip around town is what’s happening at The Love Barn, Ransom’s new boutique wedding venue run by the Lively siblings. Word around the tea shop is that Scarlett Lively is getting awfully close to a jilted groom. Then there’s whatever is going on with Benji! We have it on good authority he’s not just teaching his high school crush to play the guitar. And then there’s Garth, who has been noticeably missing from happy hour at The Watering Hole. Will these three break the family curse? Or are they destined to repeat it?

The Love Barn is created by Sidney Bristol, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

The Love Barn

Benji enjoyed teaching Dixie and the inside view it gave him into the woman. Which was why halfway through running through the second chord addition he realized she wasn't humming. Dixie hummed when she played. She wasn't ready to sing along with the songs but she had a good enough ear that once she had the chords down she hummed. Was she not entirely tuned into the lesson either? Had she suggested eating because she wasn't up for today?


They finished the progression without the usual thrill of accomplishment lighting her face.


"Good." Yeah, they were done. He lowered his guitar to the ground and leaned it up against the sofa.


Dixie continued frowning at the sheets.


He grasped the guitar in her lap and pulled it away.


"We're done." He laid the instrument across the coffee table.


Benji stretched his left arm across the back of the sofa and leaned toward her. "Are you into it today?"


Dixie bit her lower lip. The same lip he wanted to kiss.


Chapter 99: Benji