And Here I'll Stay by Rita Hestand

Author:Rita Hestand
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, western, bride, rita hestand, western romance, brides of the west series, and here ill stay
Publisher: Rita Hestand

Chapter Thirteen

She loved him. She meant it when she said she loved him? How could he have missed that? How could he have been so dumb?

And then he realized he'd never said it to her. Not like he meant it. And there was a reason for that too, but she had no idea. How could he have been so blind.

He'd hurt her badly in San Antonio. He wanted her to straighten up and realize that what they'd done was serious, not some joke. So, he was brutal with his remarks. He hadn't meant to hurt her, but the way she'd been acting, he wasn't sure he could hurt her.

When had things changed between them so drastically?

When they grew up. They weren't kids anymore and trying to keep a relationship the same was impossible. She'd grown into a beautiful young woman who could have her pick of men.

And her wanting to be like her sister, made her act irrational. Because it wasn't her nature, he could see that.

Didn't she know she was perfect the way she was? Of course, she didn't, he hadn't told her. He'd failed her as much as she'd failed him. He just hadn't seen it.

He didn't trust her feelings.

Because they had grown up, they couldn't keep the same relationship. That was the problem.

There was an attraction between them, and they hadn't faced that either.

But there were things she didn't know, and it was time for him to tell her, to build the trust they lost somehow. He only hoped it wasn't too late to convince her.

He went to her room wanting to talk to her but when she didn't answer, he went in, and she was asleep, laying across the bed. She was curled in a ball, and she'd been crying. It broke his heart to know he had hurt her again.

He pulled a blanket up over her, kissed her on the cheek and walked to his bedroom.

The next few days it was impossible to talk to her as her work had her coming in late and exhausted. She would still eat, and Maria worried and fretted over her.

"She's losing weight." Maria told Joe.

"It's all the work she's doing. She eats well enough." Joe let her know. "She loves your fixing lunch for them."

"Si, she does, but she works too hard."

"Pettigrew is sick and can't come to work. George is with her every day, I'll talk to him, see what he knows about it."

"Good, I am worried." Maria told him.

"Don't fret, I'm sure it's just overworking."

Maria nodded.

But days passed before he even got a chance to talk to her, so he went to talk to George.

"Are things bad at the livery right now?" He asked George as he caught him cleaning out a stall in the barn.

"Hectic. You can't imagine the kind of things Pettigrew does every day at that livery. He never turns a job down, and it's hard to keep up with the rascal. I've tried to do all the heavy stuff like you wanted me to, but she's had her hands full with the amount of horses that have come in lately.

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