Cowboy Courage: Includes a bonus novella by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2020-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

The Davis couple left right after breakfast that morning. Hud offered to stick around and help with cleanup, but Rose shooed him out of the house and called her mother.

“Can you talk?” Rose asked.

“It’s a great time,” Echo told her. “Your father is over in Harlan finishin’ up a project and won’t be home until suppertime.”

“I might be in love,” Rose blurted out.

“I’m not surprised,” Echo told her. “Hud Baker stole your heart when we were in Texas, and he never gave it back.”

“But, Mama, I was just a kid then. I’m a full-grown adult now. Times have changed. I have changed,” she argued.

“Honey, the heart doesn’t change, and when it gets set on something, that’s what it wants,” Echo told her.

“What if he doesn’t feel the same way?” Rose paced back and forth across the living room floor.

“You can’t do anything about the way he feels,” Echo replied. “The only emotions you’re in control of are yours.”

Rose almost stumbled over Chester when he ran across the room. “Dammit!”

“Sorry, but that’s the way it is.” Echo giggled.

“I wasn’t talking to you. Chester just about tripped me,” Rose explained. “But don’t you sometimes wish you could control Daddy—just a little bit.”

Echo laughed out loud. “I’m not sure anyone, including Paul O’Malley, can get that job done. Maybe you need to get out of the forest so you can see the trees. Come home for a few days or weeks. Get a fresh perspective on things.”

“I’ll be coming that way soon as Aunt Molly gets back,” Rose said.

“I can hardly wait,” Echo told her. “But right now I should go out to the kitchen and get the chocolate cakes made for supper. I love you, Cactus Rose.”

“Love you,” Rose said as she ended the call.

That word, home, stuck in her mind. She’d read that home is where the heart is, so where was it located?

“Well, it’s damn sure not in a place where they call me Cactus,” she muttered.

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