Dax: Military Heroes (The One I Want Series Book 4) by Ellie Masters & Jet Masters

Author:Ellie Masters & Jet Masters [Masters, Ellie & Masters, Jet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Green Berets, Delta Operatives, Air Force Para-Jumpers, Hurricane Survivor, Mountain Rescues, Helicopter Pilots, Commercial Boat Captains, Wildlife Adventure Guides, Veterinarian, Strong & Accomplished Woman, Love At First Sight, Romantic Suspense, True Love & Soulmates, Protection & Safety, Action & Adventure, The One I Want Series, Hearts Desire, Military Service, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Romantic Schemes, Small Town & Rural Area
Publisher: JEM Publishing
Published: 2019-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Dax

Dax returned Studer’s bull to its pasture. The ordeal with Dani took most of his morning, putting him hours behind in his work. He went back to the sweltering heat and herding cows, loving every minute of the backbreaking work. Dynamo lived up to his name as he buzzed around the herd, nipping at their legs and using his short yippy bark to gather them as he desired.

They worked well as a pair. Dax identified a heavy and used his horse to separate it from the herd. This went against the cow’s instinct which was to seek protection with others.

Dynamo keyed in on the chosen cow, snapping at the legs of the others to move them away. Together, they separated the heavy, corralling it into the near pasture closest to the calving barn. Cows dropped their calves in the fields, but if a cow had difficulties with the birth, they would guide her into the barn and help the process along.

He worked with one of the other ranch hands, a silent man named Henry, who tended to keep to himself. A longtime resident of the local area, Henry didn’t trust newcomers and had given Dax a wide girth until Dax proved his worth. They worked in relative peace ever since.

As the sun sank below the horizon, the sweat on his back chilled. Days were hot. The nights could be brutally cold. Winter was not done with this land, but had yet to showcase one of its infamous Montana springtime blizzards. There would be frost on the ground come morning, but hopefully no snow.

With the day drawing to a close, he tipped his hat to Henry saying goodnight. While Henry sought the seclusion of the barracks, he and Dynamo headed out to the fields where they would spend another night under a star-filled sky.

Light streamed out from the windows of the main house, leaving him to wonder which one looked into Dani’s bedroom. Something shifted within him, and he hadn’t been able to get her out of his mind, or his mouth. Her sweet taste lingered on his tongue. It was probably his imagination, but her essence seemed to surround him all day.

That kiss.

From the moment he first saw her, a protectiveness toward her rose within him. It’s why he waited to make sure that flat got fixed, and how he found himself bumbling like an idiot in Marge’s diner asking for a dog treat for Dynamo.

His teammates would have something to say about his behavior because he’d never met a woman he couldn’t walk away from. Hell, some women he ran away from, clingy women who thought one night meant they were soulmates forever.

He always laughed at that—soulmates—but he wasn’t laughing now.

There was something wrong, a pain in his chest, a yawning emptiness which gutted him from the inside out. Dani’s absence made him desperate to seek her out, if only to see what she might be doing.

That kind of obsession made zero sense, because he wasn’t that kind of man.

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