Abbie And The Cowboy by Cathie Linz

Author:Cathie Linz [Cathie Linz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459279117
Publisher: Harlequin

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But by the next morning, Abigail suffered another setback. It started out with her watching Dylan with Traveler out her office window. The two moved as one. Then something went wrong. Traveler suddenly reared and bucked as if competing in a saddle-bronc competition. All four of the horses’ hooves left the ground as the gelding arched his back in a perfect inverted U.

To Abigail’s amazement, Dylan managed to stay in the saddle. She would have gone running outside to make sure he was okay, but her knees suddenly turned into mush and she dropped onto her office chair with a thump.

He’s all right, she kept repeating like a chant. Dylan is fine.

“You’re not doing so good, though,” she told herself in disgust. “Look at you.” She held up her trembling hands. “What a sissy reaction! Get a hold of yourself!”

Problem was, she’d rather get a hold of Dylan!

“Abbie, Dylan wants to talk to you,” Raj called from downstairs a few minutes later.

“Is he okay?”

“He’s fine. A wasp stung his horse.”

Remembering an old cowboy cure she’d read about, she yelled down. “Give him some of my uncle’s chewing tobacco to use on the sting and tell him I’ll meet him out in the barn in a few minutes.”

By then, Abigail hoped to have her act together. She did, but it crumbled when the first thing Dylan said was, “I know what you’re thinking.”

Abigail sure hoped not! If so, he’d know she still hadn’t recovered yet—from the eye-fest she’d had yesterday afternoon and the fall he’d almost taken this morning. Today he wore a shirt, light blue and white checked, with his jeans. It didn’t matter. She already knew what his chest looked like, and she was free to imagine…

“You’re thinking that I forgot about checking into Redkins’s threat about cutting the water for the irrigation lines,” Dylan said.

Abigail nodded, because after all, that would have been her second choice.

“The only irrigation lines that are fed from the river on his land are those in the northeastern corner of the ranch. And that meadow is fallow now, Pete hasn’t planted anything there for over two years now. The water here on the ranch comes from a well. I took the liberty of beefing up the lighting near our well, just in case Redkins takes it into his mind to tamper with our main water supply.”

Chilled at the possibility, Abigail ran her hands over her arms.

“Hondo, Randy and I are taking turns doing a night watch,” Dylan continued. “Shem wasn’t too pleased at not being included, claimed I was discriminating against him because of his age.”

“What did you say?”

“That I was rewarding him because of his seniority and years of experience.”

“And he said?”

“Not to do him any favors,” Dylan allowed wryly. “So I gave in and let him take one of the night watches.”

“He was just following the Western code of behavior,” Abigail said. “Otherwise known as mule-headed stubbornness. You might have recognized the symptoms, ” she tacked on mockingly.

“Having observed them in you, you mean?” he retorted with a grin.

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