Cowboy Bold by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The time was going too fast. It was already the second Sunday that Retta had sat on the church pew with all four of her girls beside her. She glanced down the pew and there was Mavis and Skip at the end. They sang a congregational song and the preacher must have been reading her mind because he spoke about time that morning. She tried to listen, but her thoughts flitted around from how the past week had sped by to counting the days until she’d have to leave the ranch. Finally her mind settled on her father, and she gave thanks for the privilege of getting to spend so much time with him the past three years. Then anger set in and she wanted to shake her fist at God for taking him from her.

“Are you okay?” Faith whispered.

“I’m fine,” she said but her tone was ice cold.

“You look like you’re about to jump over that pew and slap Cade. What did he do?”

“Shhhh…” Alice put a finger over her mouth.

Faith shot a look past Retta toward the little girl, but Alice didn’t back down. “If you talk, he’ll never stop preachin’. You have to be quiet so he knows you heard the message.”

Retta leaned over slightly and whispered, “I’m not mad at Cade. I’m upset with God for not healing my dad.”

Faith’s nod and expression said that she understood.

Retta still couldn’t make herself follow the preacher’s sermon. Instead she let one of Miranda Lambert’s older songs play through her head. “The House That Built Me” video had an old house in it that even looked like the one where she’d grown up. A tear hung on Retta’s lashes as she thought about the tiny handprint on the sidewalk in the concrete leading up to the front porch back on her old farm.

You can’t be dead, Daddy. I can’t let you go. Tears threatened to roll down her cheeks. I’ve been pretending that I’m at school and when I go home you’ll be waiting for me on the front porch. It’s the only way I can cope.

Let me go, Retta. You can’t get on with your life unless you do, her father’s voice answered.

She shook her head. Not yet. I don’t want to, Daddy.

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