Cowboy Blues by Jamie Craig

Author:Jamie Craig [Craig, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2019-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Much to Rebecca’s amusement and Spencer’s chagrin, he began following the soap operas on in the middle of the day. She didn’t have a satellite dish or cable, so it wasn’t like he had any real options. And soap operas were easy for him to follow once he worked out the complicated relationships between the characters. Jake seemed to like them, too. At least, he didn’t seem to mind the time he spent on Spencer’s lap while he watched. Becca pretended to be exasperated with the shows, but he caught her attention drifting to the television more than once.

Regardless of how stupid she thought the shows were, she always encouraged him to watch as much as he wanted. She thought concentrating on anything for more than five minutes at a time was a good sign. His ability to remember who all the characters were and what was happening impressed her more. But the storylines never advanced, so Spencer wasn’t terribly proud of his capacity to pay attention.

Another benefit of getting caught up in fictional drama was that he forgot his own. Bulls were always on the back of his mind, but when he found something else to concentrate on, he briefly forgot the pain and frustration. When Becca tried to draw him into a conversation about his future, he resisted. If he didn’t talk about it, he didn’t have to think about it. That seemed obvious enough to him, but he suspected Rebecca didn’t appreciate his bullet-proof logic.

The days rolled by as they learned to live around each other. Or rather, Rebecca learned how to continue living her normal life with Spencer right in the middle of it. When he remembered getting better meant leaving her, something hurt in his chest. But he couldn’t even consider imposing on her for longer than he absolutely had to. She didn’t deserve that. Even if he liked her cute little house, and her comfortable bed, and the way she talked to Jake when she thought he couldn’t hear her.

Ten days after he left the hospital, and one week after he wrote Travis, a knock on the door disrupted their routine and distracted him from General Hospital. His fists clenched and his jaw tightened before he reminded himself anger was not a reasonable reaction. It never seemed to take much to set him off.

Becca rose from her seat at the dining room table and stretched with an audible sigh. Her tank top pulled free of her shorts, exposing her soft, smooth stomach. As a distraction from his frustration, it worked. It worked well. So well sometimes Spencer wondered if she did little things like that just to diffuse his temper.

“You didn’t order one of those strip-o-grams, did you?” she teased as she headed for the front door.

“In Utah?” Spencer snorted. “I probably couldn’t find one. Maybe it’s one of your admirers, wondering where you’ve been hiding.”

“Or one of your buckle bunnies, ready to rip my head off for keeping you locked away for so long.

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