Hot Cowboy Nights by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown [Brown, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2016-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Toby popped out an old green webbed lawn chair and sat down with Blue right beside him. He rubbed Blue’s ears with one hand and held a glass of sweating iced tea in the other. His phone rang and he answered it after he’d checked the picture to be sure it wasn’t Sharlene.

“Hello, darlin’,” he said in his sexiest drawl.

“Don’t you ‘hello, darlin’’ me, Toby Dawson. You promised you’d call and it’s been two months. I’ve sent you dozens of texts and went back to the bar where we met every weekend. Where in the hell are you?” Teresa asked.

Thank goodness her name had come on the phone with her picture or he would have had no idea who he was talking to. “Well, sweetheart, it’s like this. I moved out of the area. Bought a little chunk of land and haven’t had time to go back to our favorite bar. But I might come home for a visit in a few weeks, so don’t give up on me.”

“Never.” She giggled. “The sex was that good but so was the breakfast afterwards.”

“Well, I’m right glad that you have such good memories.” He said the right words, but his heart wasn’t in it. He would have rather been bantering with Lizzy. “Got to go, but you keep a watch out for me and we might have another weekend like the last one.”

Blue’s tail thumped against the ground and a coyote howled in the distance. The dog backed his ears and growled down deep in his throat, warning those varmints to keep their distance.

Toby made up his mind that the next day he would buy a donkey. A pack of coyotes could bring down a heifer. One or two could drag off a newborn calf. He should have brought his old donkey, Lucifer, with him to the Lucky Penny, but Toby couldn’t bear to take him away from his surroundings. Even with his advanced age, Lucifer could stomp a coyote to death if he thought for one second the varmint was coming after a calf in his pasture.

Toby set the tea down on the ground and started walking slowly, thinking about all the changes he wanted to make to the place, the cattle he planned to breed and raise there, and the future for him, his cousin, and his brother. He came to the fence separating the Lucky Penny from the property on Audrey’s Place and sat down on a flat rock. Blue plopped down on the ground and tucked his nose under his paw. The high wind that had accompanied the tornado had blown some of the petals from the red roses from the tangled mass on the barbed wire. But there were enough blossoms left to permeate the air with their scent.

All thoughts of a donkey vanished. The roses reminded him of Lizzy. She was beautiful and yet tough enough to endure a tornado, just like those beautiful roses. His eyes shifted to all the wildflowers dotting the distance

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