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Don’t I know it

“You’re a lucky guy, bro She’s perfect for you”

“Did she say anything about uy she’s ever known She seeether Saturday night after the rodeo?”

“No We had a big blohen I found out she never intended to stay here peronna let her go?”

“It’s not like I’ve got a choice”

“Bullshit Don’t be a dumb-ass, Tell Convince her to stay Wow her with soht Like that’ll work”

“Then hta tell her the truth”

“Which is?”

“Christ You’re really gonna make me say it? Tell her that you love her and can’t live without her”

It couldn’t be that sirinned at his brother “Thanks, bro You know, you’ve got a romantic streak There oin’ to getthan he normally wore on a Monday afternoon On the drive into town, he cautioned hi whoopin’ it up in the bar after the shit that’d gone down between them at the rodeo Saturday afternoon He composed snappy comebacks—ahis face a blank , I’ back, but he knew he’d never pull it off because he’d be crushed beyond repair if she left

So ould he do to get her to stay?

What would it take for him to follow her?

He’d never considered that option Could he seriously pull up stakes and leave his fa he’d ever known? Just to be with a woia

Whoa there Before he started packing his shit and looking for cowhand jobs in Texas, he’d better find out if that was soht aopen and Georgia froze

His heart began that slow, sad tuia threw herself into his ar entirely “Cowboy hottie, I am so happy to see you If you wouldn’t have coonna drive out to your place”

“That right?”