Being Mr. Blakemore: The Blakemore Files, #7

By Olivia Gaines

What the hell just happened?

In this episode, two phone calls arrive at the same time, one in Houston, the second in South America with the news that Kevin has been kidnapped! Again.

Roget tries to help, but he too is taken. Saxton is called into action to make a rescue attempt, but Odessa has calculated the odds that not all of the men will make it home alive.

The adventure continues to evolve as Bobby Ray Blakemore makes a request that changes the storyline completely.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Olivia Gaines
• Release date: Jun 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781386325277

Olivia Gaines

Olivia is a USA Today Best Selling and multiple award-winning author who loves a good laugh coupled with some steam, mixed in with a man and woman finding their way past the words of “I love you.” An author of contemporary romances, she writes heartwarming stories of blossoming relationships about couples not only falling in love but building a life after the sensual love scene. 2015 Swirl Award Winner, Best Erotic Romance, Thursdays in Savannah. 2017 IRAE Award Winner, Best Contemporary Romance, Wyoming Nights 2019 IRAE Award Winner, Favorite Series, The Men of Endurance 2019 IRAE Award Winner, Reader's Choice Award 2019 Nominee, Top Female Authors, The AuthorShow.com When Olivia is not writing, she enjoys quilting, playing Scrabble online against other word lovers and spending time with her family. She is an avid world traveler who writes many of the locations into her stories. Most of the time she can be found sitting quietly with pen and paper plotting more adventures in love. Olivia lives in Hephzibah, Georgia with her husband, son, grandson and snotty evil cat, Katness Evermean. Learn more about her books, upcoming releases and join her bibliophile nation at www.ogaines.com Subscribe to her email list at http://eepurl.com/OulYf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/olivia.gaines.31 Twitter: https://twitter.com/oliviagaines Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaines.olivia/

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This book is a work of fiction.  Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s vivid imagination or are used fictitiously.  Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely a coincidence.

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DEDICATION

For you Cooky Butler-Jackson...your questions have been answered.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To all the fans, friends and supporters of the dream as well as the Facebook community of writers who keep me focused, inspired and moving forward.

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Write On!

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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.  – Mike Tyson

Table of Contents

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Chapter 1- To Be ...

Chapter 2 – A State Of Being

Chapter 3- What Would Have Been...

Chapter 4 – They Would Be Being...

Chapter 5 – Let’s Be...

Chapter 6 – What Will Be...

Chapter 7 – We Will Be

Chapter 8 – We Be...

Chapter 9 – Señor...You Have Been Shot.

Chapter 10- You Beest...

Chapter 11 – Be...Know...Do

Chapter 12 – Bar-B-Que Anyone?

Chapter 13 –Say What Now?

Epilogue – ...Or Not To Be...

Chapter 1- To be ...

Houston, Texas

Patsy Sterling sat in the overstuffed wingback chair in her bedroom staring out at the side lawn of the Busy B Ranch. Arthritic hands rubbed the thinning fabric of the arm rests which were hand stuffed and tufted by one of the best furniture makers in the great state of Texas.  A highly skilled craftsman, who along with his art form, died years past. At times, she’d too felt her time had passed as an uncertainty filled her chest of how she’d managed to live so long. Another birthday was hovering over her head like death with a scythe waiting, just waiting for her to take that last breath. It wasn’t time yet.  There were still things to do before her old eyes closed.

Ryanne had shown her that.

I can still be of use.

This wasn’t the first time she’d thought the purpose of her life was over.  The majority of her time on the planet had focused on the raising of her only child Lucille. At times, she lived vicariously through the girl, who always seemed to have her head in the clouds. Thoughts wafted in and out of Patsy’s mind, but a memory resurfaced of when Lucille became serious about a young man from a well-to-do family. Patsy’s heart sunk when her daughter came home with the tall, good-looking, strapping young man named Robert Raymond Blakemore.  He preferred to be called Bobby Ray. In her eyes, the young man was too handsome for his own good, but he’d surprised her on more than one occasion by being nothing like she expected.

The first shocker to Patsy was in the initial stages of the early romance between the Blakemore boy and her daughter.  Late on a Friday night, two hours after Lucille’s curfew had passed, right at the moment when she was ready to mount a posse to go and find her daughter, she came down the stairs to find them in the kitchen, working on a bar-b-que sauce.

What in the f...? Patsy started to say. It looked like every pot and pan in the kitchen had been used to create what she determined was nothing more than a big fat whopping mess. Mustard was smeared on one countertop while tomato sauce and brown sugar were everywhere else.

Howdy Mrs. Sterling, Bobby Ray said with that thousand-watt smile. I didn’t want to keep Lucy out late, and I may have overstayed my welcome, but I wanted to make you a batch of the sauce I am perfecting.

Patsy liked the sauce but she wasn’t sure if she liked the man. She had a sure fire test to determine what a man was made of, so she offered Bobby Ray a hearty bowl of her chili. She watched with interest as he stirred the bowl.  His dark haired head lowering to sniff the contents on the spoon before slipping a small serving between those perfectly shaped teeth.

Whoooo-Hooo! That is hot! he said, as he took his spoon to the sink and washed it. The bowl of chili was pushed to the side as if it were no more than an afterthought or was potentially crafted of the stuff which would be the cause of a night of bad dreams.

Aren’t you going to finish the bowl, Bobby Ray? Patsy asked sweetly.

Ma’am, my daddy always told me a man should understand his limitations at a young age.  He said that if a man can do that, it greatly reduces his chances of growing up and becoming a fool, Bobby Ray said.  I ain’t no fool, and I ain’t gonna eat that bowl of colon cleanser.

And he didn’t.  Not on that day or any day which followed, not even when his brother Dusty double dogged dared him to try it. Robert Raymond Blakemore was a stand-up sort of guy that seemed to always catch Patsy off guard. He was a thoughtful man that always had a sweet gift for his Lucy.  He also seemed to keep Ms. Patsy in mind as well.

Another surprise came several months later when she caught him and Lucy on the lanai making out.  Her daughter, to her dismay, was being far too bold if not downright brazen in her forwardness with Bobby Ray. Patsy clutched her pearls when she overheard Lucy begging the young man to come with