Here To Stay (Welcome to Lucky Break, Arizona!) by Patricia Forsythe

Author:Patricia Forsythe [Forsythe, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Patricia Forsythe
Published: 2013-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

The next morning, Cam drove out to check on the newly-acquired stock he’d turned into the pasture they’d cleared of buffelgrass, but his mind wasn’t on his work. He was thinking about Billie.

He was going on a date with her.

Yeah, it was to help Brian, who he’d taken on as summer help because his father was working in Tucson for a couple of months and was afraid the boy would get into trouble if he didn’t have something to keep himself occupied. And with no mother at home, Brian had no one to teach him how to treat a girl – at least until Billie showed up.

Cam reached the pasture, parked the truck, and got out to lean on the fence and survey the small herd that was contentedly grazing its way through the replanted grama grass. The purchase of this neglected stock might have been financially foolish, but he knew it was morally right. He followed his conscience and his gut on matters to do with the ranch. What he’d learned from his father and what he’d learned on his own always guided his decisions on the Muleshoe. He only wished he had such a dependable guide when it came to Billie.

Everything had changed once she showed up. She’d only been here a couple of weeks and Cam already knew things would never be the same. She had been with him when he’d unloaded this stock, photographing every move, getting in his way, but so full of interest and excitement that he couldn’t tell her to stay out of his way. One of these measly heifers was going to calve pretty soon and Billie had insisted that she wanted to photograph the birth. She had no idea what she was in for. Calving could be a messy business, and any calf coming from a puny, underfed heifer like this one wasn’t likely to survive – and neither was the heifer. It was part of life on a ranch, one of the more unpleasant parts, but Billie wanted to take it all in.

Whether she knew it or not, she had made a big impact on the place. Her promise to be a ghost, a phantom had come to nothing, as he’d suspected it would. She was everywhere and into everything. In big ways and small ones, she made her presence known. He doubted that he would ever again look at Burt’s old cabin and not see her sitting on the porch, staring dreamily into the night sky.

And he was going on a date with her. In Lucky Break where everyone knew everyone else’s business and where everyone knew how his last romance – his last two romances – had ended. For who-knows-what reason, he managed to fall for women who weren’t going to be around very long.

He propped his foot on the bottom fence rail and slid it forward until his bootheel caught and held. He was at the point where he felt that he was turning a corner, and turning a profit, in the cattle business so he needed to keep his mind free of distractions.

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