Her Cowboy Hero by Carolyne Aarsen

Author:Carolyne Aarsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Man-Woman Relationships, 21st Century, Fiction - Christian, Romance - Christian, Montana

Chapter Nine

“Looks like we’ll be home Saturday at the earliest,” Monty was saying over the cell phone.

The connection wasn’t the best, so his voice crackled and broke a couple of times, but Tanner eventually caught the gist of the conversation.

He stood in the lee of the leather-working shop, leaning against the wall, out of the wind. This morning sun was shining and the temperature had risen, but the fields ahead of him were still one long unbroken expanse of snow, whipped up by the wind that still blew. “That’s great. Are the roads clearing up where you are?”

“They’re mostly clear here and I guess it’s all clear to Saddlebank. Have the plow trucks been to the ranch yet?”

“No. I cleared out the driveway this morning but the road is still snowed in.”

Wednesday they thought they’d had a reprieve from the storm, but the winds started up again yesterday and more snow had come down last night. Thanksgiving had been a bleak day and dinner had been a simple meal. Today, however, they had woken up to a clear-blue sky and the promise of warmer weather.

“Well, let me know when they come,” Monty said. “John and I will travel as far as we can, then hole up until we can go farther. I should call Ellen, and John wants to find out how Adana is.”

“She’s fine. Keira and I took her out to play in the snow the other day...”

“She must have enjoyed that. I know John always complains that he doesn’t spend enough time with her.”

“It was fun.” That three-letter word was too small to describe what had happened that afternoon. It had been so much more than fun. It was a glimpse of possibilities.

“I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate you sticking around there to help out. I think God knew I needed you there.”

Tanner suspected God knew a whole lot more than that. “I’m glad I could be here,” he said, his lame response hardly able to encompass the myriad of emotions he had dealt with the past few days and was still dealing with.

“Well, I better get going,” Monty said. “Got a few miles to go and John’s antsy to see Adana. He feels bad that we missed Thanksgiving, but I don’t think that little munchkin cares.”

“Ellen and Alice said they hoped to have a Thanksgiving dinner next week instead.”

“That’d be great.” Monty said goodbye and ended the call.

Tanner dropped his phone into his coat pocket and pulled his gloves on. The sun was out in full force today. Last night and this morning, wind from the storm had piled a few more drifts on the yard but it had also scrubbed the sky clear of clouds and brought in some warmer temperatures.

When the wind quit it was going to be a beautiful day in many ways.

When Monty had called, he and Keira had just finished checking the cows. Then Keira had gone ahead of him to the shop to finish up her work on David’s saddle.

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