Healing Hearts

By Harley McRide

Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. Ménage – MFM
In this Taming Team TEN Valentine Special, Cynthia Plater comes home to Healing, Wyoming, ready to start the life she has mapped out for herself. Well, until the one thing she has her heart set on—gets sold to the one person she never thought she'd see on a Wyoming ranch.
Thad Tremain feels like he has come home. When he and his partner, Gabe, made the decision to come to Healing, it was for one thing—Cyn Plater.
Join Cyn as she learns to never judge a book by its cover and if she is willing, she could walk away with not only one heart for Valentine's Day—but two.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jana Leigh
• Release date: Feb 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311591500

Harley McRide

I was on the back of a bike as soon as I was big enough to hold on. My love of the lifestyle, combined with my experience and imagination drove me to writing.Now that my two kids are grown and off to college, My husband and I enjoy the great outdoors with our three great Danes: Bowser, Killer, and Maddie.I grew up in Illinois, moving from place to place with my single mother until I was twelve. I now call the little town of Arkadelphia, Arkansas home. With it’s small town charm and population just over 10,000, it is the perfect place to hit the open road. When I need to get away, the hot springs are my go to unwind spot located less than thirty minutes from my cabin in the woods

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Healing Hearts

Taming Team TEN

Valentine Novella

By Harley McRide

Reissued © Copyright April 2019 Harley McRide

Original © Copyright February 2014 under pen name Jana Leigh

Cover art and logo © Copyright April 2019 Harley McRide

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Dedication

To the best readers an author can have – Happy Valentine's Day!

Harley McRide

Table of Contents

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Epilogue

Books by Harley McRide

About the Author

Prologue

Cynthia Plater drove on the road that would lead her to Healing, Wyoming. She was finally going home. After four years of college, she finished with her degree in finance, taken a few months off to travel, gone back to obtain her masters, and now she was ready. It was New Year's Day, the first day of the rest of her life. Finance was not the normal degree someone in Wyoming would need, but there were a lot of ranches in Healing, and she was planning to open an accounting office in the town.

Ever since her sister, Brin, took her to live with her when she graduated high school, Cyn had dreamed of this day. She loved the town of Healing. Brin and her husbands had come to her high school graduation when her sister saw the bruise on her hip from where their father had kicked her, Brin had taken her away.

Mark, her brother, had never known how bad it was in that house after he left. If he had, Cyn was sure he would have come and rescued her. Nevertheless, Mark had been killed on a mission, Brin had been in college, and Cyn was left alone in the cold and unfeeling household they had grown up in. Her father cared about one thing—money. He had taken her mother's inheritance and spent it. When Mark died he had tried to do the same, but her brother had made sure that would never happen, he left it in the care of one of his teammates until she became of age.

The abuse hadn’t started until Cyn had been twelve, a year after her brother left home and never looked back. Her father had been pissed when he found letters she had written to her brother. He ranted and raved about Mark leaving them in disgrace, becoming a low paid military grunt who couldn’t afford to send money home and forbade her from contacting him again. Cyn was more careful and did it in secret, but when her father found those letters, it was the first time she became the focus of his rage. She still remembered having to stay home from school to heal. It was the only time he hit her in the face. After that, he had been more careful to make sure the bruises were able to be hidden. They were fine upstanding members of the community, of course, people knowing wasn't appropriate for personal family matters.

If she had stepped out of line or disagreed with him at all, Cyn had been disciplined. Terrified to tell anyone, Cyn just made sure she didn’t get in his way most of the time. Apparently, it had gotten easier for him to find things to take out on her. Because no matter what she did—she had gotten hit. It all ended the day Brin, Jessie, and Grant had come to visit. Her father wouldn’t speak to her sister because he said she was an embarrassment for marrying two men.

Cyn hadn’t cared; she liked both men on sight and loved her nephew, Marcus. However, because of her parents' refusal to meet with Brin, Cyn had to see her in secret, just like she had when Mark had been alive. Her father had been pissed when he found out.

Cyn never knew what happened when Jessie and Grant had gone to the house she grew up in to get her things. But when they came back, she saw the bruises on their knuckles when they handed her the bags she requested. They never spoke of the incident again. For that she was grateful, then Cyn moved to Healing, and entered college in Laramie, Wyoming. She loved the small town and knew she would make a home there when she graduated.

Mark had left her money in his will. It paid for college, and she still had a chunk to buy the small little spread across from her