For Her (THE DUKE RANCH) by R.L. Atkinson EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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CASSIDY
Everything was silent.
New.
Fresh. And as still as if something was right around the corner,
hiding the fright that only might occur from chaos unknown.
In that moment—just before the rooster’s crow had broken the
silence, and right before the sun’s rays peeked over the mountains to cast
that all-too-familiar pink glow on the ridges of the Rockies—everything
was absolutely frozen. Even the smallest creature held its breath, basking in
that minute pause that the world took. As if the Earth stopped spinning on
her axis for half a second.
And it was always this final moment when there was no
pandemonium, not a single requirement in the books for me, that gave me a
sense of peace. The hands weren’t out of their bunkhouses, and Weston
wasn’t up and going. Which was a relief because that meant he wasn’t
either taking his nerves out on me or turning back into that grump of a man
because Tenley wasn’t letting him take care of her how he wanted to right
now.
I inhaled deeply, filling my lungs with the familiar fresh air of early
morning as the first rays danced over the horizon. It was going to be a hot
one today; I could already feel the blistering warmth dancing thick around
me. My body was sticky even as I was perched upon a wooden fence rail in
the shade.
Then I heard it.
The first crunch of gravel beneath a pair of leather soles. Glancing
to my left, I lifted the corner of my lips into a smirk as Weston came
sauntering toward me, a frown etched onto his face.
“So, the wifey didn’t let you do something this morning again, I
assume?” I called out, and Weston lifted his chin, rolling his eyes beneath
that all-too-familiar cowboy hat.
“Apparently, it doesn’t matter that she’s due pretty much any day
now, she’s still refusing to go on maternity leave. Her reason: The new vet
that they hired still needs some training—”
“But you disagree,” I finished for him, and he hoisted himself up on
the rail beside me.
“Obviously,” he grumbled, rolling one sleeve of his shirt up. “So,
we’ve gotta push the cattle up to summer pasture in a few days. Is
everything prepped?”
“Yep,” I casually answered, ignoring the abrupt change of topic, and
brushed a hand along the back of my neck. It was already wet from sweat
beneath my own cowboy hat, which shaded my eyes from the rising sun.
“You sending someone up to camp early to prep food?”
“Weston, you need to relax. I already got it all taken care of. Why
not go find your wife and bug her about something instead of me?” I lifted a
brow as his scowl deepened.
“She’s getting ready to head down to the clinic,” he mumbled under
his breath.
“So? Go with her. I’ve got it here.”
“How about I go finish the porch on your house?”
I rolled my eyes and jumped down from the rail, my spurs ringing
out. “I was planning on doing that today.”
“Cassidy—” But he immediately stopped talking as both of our eyes
were drawn to an unfamiliar truck and trailer crunching over the dirt road
up the drive.
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