CookCountySecondChanceCowboy_w5567 by Crystal-Rain Love

Author:Crystal-Rain Love
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2010-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

SIX

Chance pulled the truck over to the side of the access road near the spot he’d stopped working on the fence and grabbed one of the few water bottles he kept in the cab. Sliding out, he rounded the back of the truck and lowered the tailgate before grabbing a pair of size twelve boots and tugging.

Lucky slid out of the truck bed and landed in a heap on the ground. Other than a grunt and visible grimace, he didn’t budge so Chance opened the water bottle and turned it sideways, dousing the blonde cowboy with the cool liquid.

Lucky jerked and quickly rolled out of the stream of water pouring down on him before sitting up. “What the hell, man?”

“Get your sorry ass up and get to helping with this fence,” Chance growled before he downed the rest of the water and tossed the bottle into the back of the truck. “Pity party’s over.”

“What fence?” Lucky looked around through squinted eyes. “Where am I?”

Chance picked up the nails and hammer he’d left out earlier. “The Calhoun Ranch.”

Lucky’s eyebrows raised at that, and he slowly rose to stand. “You’re helping Kenzie out?”

“Yes, and now so are you.” Chance guided him to the fence and instructed him to roll it while he took care of hammering it to the posts. The last thing he wanted to do was give his drunk brother a hammer. “Dinner’s at six and you’re going so we’d better get this done.”

“Dinner? Where?”

“Kenzie’s. I’m helping her out around here in exchange for meals and a bed in the bunkhouse.”

Lucky rolled the fence to the next post, his back straight. “You never could stand to stay at home.”

Chance glanced up from where he crouched next to the pole, ready to hammer in the bottom nail. “Do you need me to?”

Lucky shook his head. “Naw. I’m a big boy now, bro. I don’t need you bailing me out of shit anymore.” He laughed. “Hell, I’ll probably be bailing you out of trouble before long. Seems like your time away didn’t teach you nothing. Came runnin’ right back to this ranch.”

Chance frowned, biting back irritation as he moved along to the next post. “You’re the one who told me Kenzie needed help.”

“With the ranch, yeah. I get you doing this. What I don’t get is why you would bring her to the cemetery today.” He shook his head and let out a groan.

The nap may have helped him sober a bit, but he obviously still felt the effects of his latest binge. Serves him right.

“Then again, that girl still looks at you all goofy-eyed,” Lucky continued. “Maybe bringing her to the burial was a good thing. The sooner she sees how messed up we are, the sooner she’ll come to her senses. Women like that…they aren’t for us, bro.”

Tell me something I don’t know. Chance nodded his agreement, remembering the way Kenzie had looked at him after the burial, like he was some puzzle she couldn’t figure out. It was as if she’d expected him to be a certain way and couldn’t understand why he wasn’t.

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