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“And have somebody kill it, like the lambs? I couldn’t stand that It would break my heart”
“For a tough woht her close and swept her back to the bed After unbuttoning her cotton shirt, he buried his face between her breasts—s her say that she loved him had thawed a frozen place in his heart Until Rose, he’d stopped believing that he orthy of love, or that he could ever love again But he’d been wrong They were two broken people—but so them whole
He left her before dawn, bending down to kiss her sleeping face She opened her eyes with a whiht his neck to deepen the kiss Once his first rotating partner arrived at the new office, he would hts with Rose But he wouldn’t subject her to the gossip that would arise if he openly spent his nights with her They could only make the most of the time they had
After checking the yard for signs of intruders, and finding none, he cliht now, the future was too uncertain to ine a life without Rose Sos work out for them Meanwhile, he had a job to do
Rose woke again at first light For the space of a few breaths, she lay still, her body ith theThen the concerns of the day flooded in on her—first and foreht? Was Bull’s faht? What if she’d h to leave them at the Rimrock?
She flung herself out of bed, pulled on her clothes, splashed her face, and tied back her hair After feeding the chickens, she grabbed her keys off the hook by the door, locked the trailer, and headed for the Rimrock in her pickup
In the east, a fla the land summer dry Soon the Ri to the water tank to drink, testing the strength of her fence If she didn’t want her yard tra the posts and wire
A plume of dust trailed b
ehind her wheels as she drove into the ranch yard The place looked surprisingly peaceful, with cows and calves grazing in the paddocks and a couple of ranch hands filling the water troughs
Bull was sitting on the porch, drinking coffee He stood as she drove up and parked below the steps “I’ve been wondering when you’d show up,” he said as she climbed out of the truck “Come on in and have some breakfast”
She took the steps two at a ti all right?”
“Everything’s fine At least I hope it is Raul and Joaquin are on their way up to the line shack in the mountain pasture Jasper and Sa, with a load of supplies Our Mexican boys will be up there tending cattle for the summer months They’ll have horses, but no vehicle If they stay put, they should be safe enough, and hopefully so should you”
“What if they don’t stay put?” Rose was still worried
“Let’s hope on’t have to answer that question” The dark look Bull gave her expressed more than words There was another side to this li his land and his family, there were no limits to what Bull Tyler would do
So told her that the decision to send the two htly