Cowboy Down (The Kings of Montana Book 1) by Vanessa Gray Bartal

Author:Vanessa Gray Bartal [Bartal, Vanessa Gray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dry Creek Press
Published: 2011-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The next day, Layla’s prediction about Cade came true. He left the house immediately after breakfast and had to be coaxed to return for lunch. Cam told them he had plans to put in a sidewalk that would run from the house to the barn and office, but for now Cade seemed content to wheel himself around the yard.

“Let me push you,” she said when they went back outside after supper. He had stayed outside while she cleaned and cooked supper with Shorty, and she knew his arms had to be tired from so much pushing.

“I’m fine,” he insisted. “I stopped being able to feel my arms after the second hour out here.”

She laughed and took over pushing duties. It was no easy task, even though the yard was leveled due to years of heavy traffic. “Where do you want to go?”

“The barn. I want to show you something. Keep going until I tell you to stop.”

She pushed him to the barn, through it, and out the back. “Stop,” he said. He positioned himself facing the western horizon. “Want to watch the sun set with me?”

“Yes.” Before he could pat his lap for her to sit down, she ducked into the barn and retrieved a plastic chair, dragging it behind her as she reemerged.

He frowned at the chair, holding it responsible for the distance between him and Layla. How was he supposed to kiss her now, scoot his chair closer to hers and lean over until they met in the middle? No way. Instead, he contented himself with reaching for her hand and twining their fingers together. She gave a contented little sigh that made him smile.

She scooted her chair closer to his to narrow the distance between them and laid her head on his shoulder. “It’s beautiful here.”

“The most beautiful place in the world,” he agreed. For two months after the accident, he had lived with his parents in Arizona while he recovered. His mother hoped to make the situation permanent, but he missed home. Reluctantly, she had let him return with the hope that the beauty and familiarity of Montana would work to draw him out of his black mood.

But as much as he loved the ranch, it had done nothing to cheer him. He had felt even more isolated and useless as he watched his brothers working busily in the yard from his prison window. And then Layla came, freeing his heart and freeing his body from the confines of the house. Breathing the fresh, familiar country air once again made him feel euphoric.

He turned to look down at her and saw her looking up at him, a tender look on her face. It never failed to amaze him that she actually seemed to like him as much as he liked her. What did she see in him but a worthless kid confined to a chair?

His effervescent joy at being outside again wouldn’t let him sink into melancholy. And then it hit him: this was his moment.

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