A Cattleman for Cora by Amelia C. Adams

Author:Amelia C. Adams [Adams, Amelia C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Cora placed all her bundles on her bed, then picked up Margaret’s sun hat. A walk across the yard to return it was just what she needed after sitting on that wooden bench for so long.

Fiona had told her there was supper waiting in the dining room, but Cora wasn’t hungry. Her stomach had been twisted into a ball ever since her conversation with Tenny, and she pulled in deep breaths of the evening air, hoping that would help.

When she knocked on the door of the main house, Wade opened it and gave her a big smile. “Did you have an enjoyable day in town?”

“I did . . . and yet I didn’t,” Cora said miserably.

“Sounds to me like you’ve come here seeking some advice from my ever-wise wife. You can go on back—she’s in the bedroom.”

“She’s not trying to sleep, is she? I can come back tomorrow.”

“No, she’s just knitting. She’ll be glad for your visit.”

Cora thanked him, then walked down the hall. Margaret was sitting up in bed, her new skeins of yarn next to her while she finished up the last of her old ones. She looked up and smiled when Cora came in.

“I’ve brought you back your hat,” Cora said, placing it on the dresser. “Thank you so much.”

“And you got one of your own?”

“I did. I learned a lesson this week—I’ll never go out in the sun without a wide brim again.” Cora sat down on the chair next to the bed. “Do you ever get tired of being the smartest person on the ranch?”

Margaret chuckled. “No, because I’m not.”

“You’re not? Then why do we all come to you for advice? Who should we be going to instead?”

She laughed again. “I do all right in a pinch, but the one with the most life’s experience and down-to-earth way of approaching things is Sully. He’s the one I go to when I can’t figure something out.”

Cora nodded. That made sense—Sully did have a refreshing way of looking at the world. “I wonder if he could help me with this little predicament when I’m not even sure what I did wrong.”

“Tell me what happened, and I’ll help you decide if this is a Margaret problem or a Sully problem.”

“All right.” Cora rehearsed all the events of the day, even telling her about the kiss, but not going into a great deal of detail. Then she relayed how she got the idea to teach Tenny how to read, and how he reacted.

“Everything had been going so well up to that point, and then . . . it just fell apart. He acted like reading lessons would be the most horrible thing that could ever happen to him, and I didn’t get a real chance to explain why I thought it was a good idea. We didn’t say another word to each other after that, not even goodbye. He withdrew as far into himself as a person can get, and I don’t know how to reach him.”

Margaret was silent as she introduced the end of the new yarn into her project.

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