A Bull Rider to Depend On by Jeannie Watt

Author:Jeannie Watt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

When it became obvious that the rain was not going to let up, Skye and Tyler went to their separate abodes to spend their evenings alone. Skye told herself she was good with this, but the truth was that after having a rather decent conversation with Tyler in the barn, her house seemed lonelier than usual. Which was crazy. Why would she be hungry for human contact when she worked in a very people-centered occupation?

It made no sense. And neither did pulling back the curtain before she went to bed to see if it was still raining and Tyler’s lights were still on. The answers to those questions were no and yes. She had to work the morning shift the next day but fully intended to get back up on the roof when she got home. The quicker they got the roof done, the better.

She also thought about crossing the distance to Tyler’s door and asking him not to get on the roof when she wasn’t there.

She didn’t.

He wouldn’t agree, and she wasn’t going to put herself in a position of arguing with him. Things were so much less stressful when they didn’t argue. Could they possibly continue in this mode? Because it would probably be years before she could make a serious dent in what she owed him, so it really made sense to broker peace between them.

Yes. Peace.

And maybe that would help her deal with the edgy feeling she had whenever he got close to her.

Skye got off shift a little early the next day and arrived home to find that Tyler had finished one roof and had a start on the next. She changed her clothes, retrieved her hammer out of the toolbox and climbed up to join him on the roof.

“How was work?” he asked, as if having her show up to roof was a normal part of his day.

“Not very busy. I like it better when I’m busy.” She reached into the nail can, grabbed a handful, then gestured for him to lay the next shingle. He did, and she nailed it into place.

They moved to their left. Tyler laid another shingle, and Skye hammered it in. “You know that I can hammer, right? That I hammered for a couple of hours before you got here?”

“Guess that makes it my turn.” She hit a nail in with one satisfying blow. “You shouldn’t be doing this at all while you’re healing, but I know better than to argue with you.”

“Know me that well?”

She leveled a look at him. “I know your species.” She hit a nail wrong and sent it sailing off the roof, then put another in place and tried again. “When Mason and I married, I thought I understood bull riders, but I still had a few things to learn. Now I get it.”

“And you were good with all the time he spent on the road?”

“I missed him.” She couldn’t say she was good with all the time she’d spent alone, but she understood it.

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