Give Me Texas by Suzanne D. Williams

Author:Suzanne D. Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cowboys, cowboy, western, westerns, romance, western romance, Christian fiction, series, inspirational, inspirational romance, second chances, short stories, contemporary romance, contemporary fiction, suspense, romantic suspense, women's fiction, clean & wholesome
Publisher: Suzanne D. Williams
Published: 2018-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

“THERE’S A CALL FOR you in the bunkhouse ...” one of his fellow cowboys said.

Dex looked behind, at the low-slung building, and released the fence rail, turning in a circle. Sweat slithered down his spine, dampening his t-shirt and the waistband of his jeans. He stomped his boots at the door and entered, the icy air-conditioning causing a shiver to course through him. He rubbed at gooseflesh dotting his arms and aimed for the bunkhouse phone, where it lay upside-down on the counter.

He pressed the soiled receiver to his ear. “Dex Tilford,” he said.

“Hello, brother.”

Hearing Stetson’s voice sent him backward into the wall. He leaned there, his heart beating a little harder. He’d only spoken with him once in the last five years and that conversation had been solely about Stetson. He’d wondered afterward if his brother had avoided the subject of his failed nuptials or if it simply hadn’t come up. He’d been too shaken by it, at the time, to call him again.

“I gave Mom my cell number,” he said.

“You did?”

The surprise in his voice told Dex a couple things, but, biggest of all, that Stetson hadn’t talked to her. So, he wouldn’t know anything that’d been said. He didn’t really expect their mom to share it anyway. She hadn’t raised so many children without knowing what to say or not say.

“I guess you haven’t called her recently,” he replied. “In any case, how’d you get this number?”

“That answer is part of why I’m calling, in the first place,” his brother replied. “I ran into Wade.”

Hearing Wade’s name tightened Dex’s gut into a knot.

“He said Mr. Calhoun saw you at the Double R. I called the number I found online, and the woman who answered said to call out here. I didn’t expect anyone to pick up.”

Ordinarily, no one would have, but they were working close today. Dex withheld the thought.

“We need to talk,” his brother said. “I know you probably don’t want to, but you haven’t solved anything by staying bottled up.”

Though the statement rang true, being called out on it struck Dex strange. Anger flashed in his mind. He swallowed it. “I don’t know what you want me to say. I apologized to Mom ....”

“Apologized? You think, ‘I’m sorry,’ is going to cut it? You slept with ...”

“You don’t have to remind me who it was,” Dex snapped. “I’ve been livin’ with that for five years.”

“So have I ... and so has Levi and Wade. We got all the stares that you avoided, heard all the whispers behind our backs. Mom was miserable at work. Mr. Blount had to move her away from the others, just to quell things.”

Dex swallowed on a dry throat. He’d figured on some of that but hearing it from Stetson made it worse.

“Frankly, it’s been hell,” Stetson continued. “It’s going to take way more than an apology to make up for it.”

Dex yanked his cowboy hat off and dropped it on the counter. He swiped his sweaty forehead with the back of his hand.

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