Dreaming of Her Cowboy's Kiss (Cowboy Mountain Christmas, Small Town Sweet Romance, Book 1) by Jessie Gussman

Author:Jessie Gussman [Gussman, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessie Gussman
Published: 2020-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Ethan had intended at the start of the week to spend a lot more time with Ruby. At least checking up on her and helping.

But she had been pretty much on her own every day until they collapsed around the bonfire each evening. Each evening, he felt like she was struggling. Finally, on Friday, Shane, his youngest brother, had shown up and taken the boys to the woods to grab a load of firewood.

Ethan had two of the boys and planned to mow the grass around the house. He fully intended to check on Ruby while he was there.

He supposed that he should have known Ruby just needed a little time to find her area.

He came around the corner of the house, after putting Kaden on the riding mower, giving Gavin a weed eater, and carrying a weed eater of his own, to see Ruby sitting at the big table with five girls. All of them had cardboard and string and straws and what looked like foam, and a bunch of other craft supplies lay scattered everywhere.

Crafts were a good idea, but he didn’t think Ruby would stop at any old craft.

She hadn’t seen him, because her back was to him, but her voice was full and confident as she spoke to the girls.

“These bones are called carpals, and as you can see, all four fingers have three, while the thumb only has two. The string that we’ve attached and threaded through the straws represents tendons. Interestingly, the tendons that attach here are moved by the muscles of the forearm.”

She held her arm up and ran her fingers over her forearm as the girls looked at her with their mouths open. Ruby named several muscles, and the girls’ eyes glazed over.

Even Ethan laughed himself. She might have been getting just a little deep there.

“And what do you think happens if any of those tendons are severed?”

The girls’ eyes were big, and they stared at Ruby.

“For example, if you’re cutting something and your knife slips and it goes into your hand like this...” Ruby demonstrated, holding a knife in her right hand and showing it slip and point into her left. “You can sever the tendon in your hand. For example, if it went in here,” she tapped with the knife, “you would sever the tendon that connects from your forearm to your thumb, and you wouldn’t be able to use your thumb. The restriction of movement would depend on which tendon you severed. Tendons don’t fix themselves like skin will. The only way to fix that is surgery, where you attach the ends of the tendon back together. Sometimes finding those ends is quite a chore.” She grinned, and the girls continued staring. “Let’s see you work your tendons, girls.”

Ethan was half amused and half amazed as the girls picked up their hands, each of which had “tendons” running through straws to “bones” that were attached to a foam and cardboard cutout of a hand.

Yeah, he definitely wanted to laugh.

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