Cut & Run 06 - Stars & Stripes (MM) by Abigail Roux

Author:Abigail Roux [Roux, Abigail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Harrison Garrett wasn’t doing any hard labor as he strolled through the barns. His body wasn’t up to it yet. But he loved the smell of the barns: the hay and the leather, the horses and the wood. It brought him peace in a world that had gone crazy. Men were trying to kill him, lions and tigers lived next door, his wife was on the warpath, and his son had brought home a man he loved.

When he reached the far end of the stalls, he stumbled across Ty and Zane just outside the barn door. Ty was perched on a hitching post as he watched Zane rope the horn of a saddle set on a fence rail ten feet away.

Zane tossed the rope, landing it around the saddle horn time and time again. He was trying to teach Ty the proper technique, but Ty wasn’t watching his hands or his posture, or even the rope as it sailed through the air. He was watching Zane’s face.

“You ready to give it a try?” Zane asked, unaware that they had an audience.

“No, show me one more time.”

Zane gave him a tolerant sigh and nodded. Harrison snorted, luckily not loud enough to draw their attention. This Ty Grady had Zane wrapped around his finger. It was almost sweet. And Harrison had rarely seen a man who could go toe to toe with Beverly and come out alive, much less on top and smiling. The more he saw of the man who’d caught his son’s heart, the more he liked him. And the more he saw of his son, the more he realized how close they’d come to losing Zane altogether. Even before his wife had passed, Zane had been a cold and rather distant man. He’d been so much like Beverly. Now, though, there was warmth in Zane that Harrison had never thought he’d see.

It could have been a coincidence that Zane had found new life and Ty at the same time, but Harrison didn’t put much stock in coincidences.

Ty was smoking a thin cigar, holding it in his left hand. He put it in his mouth and knocked on his cast in frustration. “Show me one more time, then I’ll try it lefty. Unless you’d like to cut this off.”

Zane looked him up and down and started to speak, but he stopped himself. Then he rolled his eyes. “You’re stalling.”

“I’m not stalling. I’m learning.”

“You’re bullshitting.”

“Don’t they call it horseshitting down here?”

“Come on, if you’re not going to try this, I’ll show you how to saddle the horse instead.”

Ty pointed his good hand at the doors to the barn, where Harrison stood. “I’m not going back in there with that horse.”

Zane flopped the rope against his thigh. “Ty, the horses are not conspiring against you.”

Ty crossed his arms and shook his head. “He looks at me. And he talks to me! And he knows I don’t know what he’s saying!”

Zane squinted at him. “Okay. I think you’ve been out in the sun a little too long.

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