Grape Seed Falls Romance Complete Collection by Liz Isaacson

Author:Liz Isaacson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AEJ Creative Works

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“What else can I do?” He stepped in front of Shane and clapped his leather gloves together. He’d spent the morning pulling barbed wire tight while Dylan hammered the spikes into their new spots in the wood fence posts. His shoulders and arms ached, but he’d take the physical pain over thinking about May. Then he’d taken a job in the hayloft that afternoon, which had aggravated his slight allergies. That was all the sniffing was. He wasn’t a breath away from emotional ruin. No sirree. Not Kurt Pemberton, part-time foreman and full-time single cowboy.

“Why are you still here?” Shane looked at him with a squint in his eye. “Shouldn’t you be done by now?”

“Nope.” Kurt clenched his jaw, hoping Shane would let this go.

“Well, I don’t have anything else for you. So I guess you can have the rest of the afternoon and evening off.” He lifted his eyebrows. “The way you normally do.” He stepped past Kurt to help Chad lift two saddles onto nails in the tack room. Their voices filtered back to him, but Kurt didn’t look at them as he walked out.

He couldn’t go back to his cabin alone. He’d spent Sunday holed up there, and that hadn’t been good for his body or mind. It was only four o’clock, and he didn’t feel like cooking. It reminded him too much of May. It seemed like everything did.

Except for ranch things. She’d done a great job of excluding herself from his life here at Grape Seed Ranch, so he went to the horse barn and saddled Minnie. “Come on, girl,” he said to the horse as they stepped into the sunshine. “Let’s get ourselves good and lost.”

Kurt couldn’t actually get lost on the ranch, but if he could, Minnie would be able to find her way back. She had a nose for hay that was better than any other horse Kurt had owned. He let her wander, his thoughts doing the same. Minnie went toward the homestead and the long grasses that grew on the edge of the garden plot. Kurt didn’t want to see Dwayne, so he nudged the horse further out on the range, further from the men he worked with, further from reality.

He could truly get away from his worries and cares when he rode his horse. It was almost as if God had given them the special ability to soothe unseen wounds. He’d made the rhythmic clopping of their hooves like a balm to Kurt’s soul, and it was only through the soft snuffle of Minnie’s voice that Kurt was able to smile.

The sound of another horse clippity-clopping came closer, and Kurt didn’t turn to see who it was. He knew it would be Dwayne. Sure enough, the owner pulled up alongside him, riding Payday, the Rocky Mountain walking horse that he loved. His right hand shook while he held the reins, something Kurt hadn’t noticed in ages. Of course he knew about Dwayne’s military injury, and the man’s arm, hand, and fingers trembled a lot.

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