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“I’ camp coffee” His mouth crooked in a suppressed smile, but his eyes beamed with a mixture of pride and approval

He hadpart of Ty’s forrandson’s He liked the idea of passing on the wisdoe lore he had learned from his father Chase didn’t fault the way Ty had turned out Maggie had done a good job of raising hi of the land and this life that he would have if he had been raised with its legacy from birth the way Trey would be

“You see that sky, Trey” Chase looked up at the vastness of it “That’s a Calder sky My daddy toldchunk of land to fit under it”

“Horse, G’ a half-dozen coith their calves toward the gather site

Chase recognized the short-coupled bay mare and the small rider on its back Which made the identity of the second rider obvious “Looks like that’s Quint and your Aunt Cat”

Trey’s eyes got big with the news “Kint”

“Yup You’ll see him in a little bit How about some coffee, Joe?” he said to the thirty-year-old cook, a new man by the name of Joe Johns, who had taken over the job froo

Johns was a mountain man, born and raised, and looked the part with his stocky build and bushy beard Although he was a stranger to the plains country, the Triple C riders had gladly overlooked that flaw the first time they tasted his coffee

“You want a cup, too, Miss Jessy?” He filled a tinfor Chase and reached for another

“Are you kidding?” Jessy smiled “I would never turn down a cup of your coffee”

As they drifted away from the cookshack on wheels, cups in hand, Chase told her, “Thehim Coffee Joe As far as they’re concerned, the job is his for life”

“Let’s hope he agrees”

Chase sat down on one of the collapsible ca in the familiar roundup s coffee A scan of the riders holding the gather failed to locate Ty anize her own father when Stumpy split away to ride into camp with Cat and Quint

“I sae had soer under Laura’s chin, drawing a giggle fro by this ”

“That’s because he didn’t know” When Laura stretched out her arrandfather, Jessy handed the child over to him “Where is he, anyway?”