Her Lone Star Protector by PEGGY MORELAND

Author:PEGGY MORELAND
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2002-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

But Rob didn’t talk to Seb that afternoon. He never found him. Not at his office, not at his house.

On his way home, Rob cruised by the Texas Cattleman’s Club one last time, just to see if Seb had showed up, but didn’t see his car in the parking lot.

By the time he arrived at his ranch, it was after dark. He was surprised to find Rebecca’s van parked out front. After the emotional display the night before, he really hadn’t expected to see her again so soon. Not without him making the first move.

But he was even more surprised when, after a quick look around, he didn’t find Rebecca.

Wondering where she’d gotten to, he walked around the house to the back, but didn’t find a sign of her there, either. He’d just turned to retrace his steps when he noticed the barn light on.

Curious, he headed that way.

He heard her before he saw her. Her voice held the soft, soothing lilt of a mother comforting a sick child. Mesmerized by the sound, he followed it to a far stall. And there he found Rebecca feeding fistfuls of grass to a skeleton of a horse.

He could only stare.

“Rob will know what to do,” he heard her tell the horse. “Just hang on a little longer. Okay?”

The horse tossed its head, as if it understood, and Rebecca smiled. “You’re smart, aren’t you, girl?” she murmured, rubbing the horse’s muzzle. “Smarter than that crotchety old man who brought you here.”

“Who?” Rob asked. “Fegan?”

Startled, Rebecca glanced up, then laid a hand over her heart. “Oh, thank goodness, you’re here,” she said in relief. “The most disagreeable old man just dumped this horse here and left.” She looked back at the animal and wrung her hands. “I didn’t know what to do, what to feed her, and I was so afraid that she’d die before you came home.”

Rob opened the gate and stepped inside, shutting the gate behind him. “Looks to me like you’re both doing just fine. Though I do have hay,” he added, noting the small pile of grass heaped at her feet, grass he figured she must have picked from his pasture. He scratched the animal between its ears, then tipped up its head, examining first its eyes, then its teeth. “She’s an old one. Twenty-four, if she’s a day.”

“He made me sign a paper before he’d leave her,” she told him, her anger with the tobacco-spitting old man making her voice sharp. “I told him I couldn’t, that I didn’t have the authority to sign for you. But he said he was going to take her to the glue factory if I didn’t.”

Out of the corner of his eye Rob noticed that she’d quit wringing her hands and had balled them into fists at her sides. So there was some fire in the lady, he noted, just as he’d suspected. Good for her.

“Probably would have, too,” he replied. He gave the horse a comforting pat, then gave Rebecca’s shoulder one as he passed by her.

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