Kisses From My Cowboy Stepbrother by Madison Tiffany

Author:Madison, Tiffany [Madison, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-27T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The rest of the day went pretty normally. I mean as normal as could be considering my mother had just agreed to marry a man whom she hardly knew.

But both she and Richard were on cloud nine. They had smiles on their faces and spent most of the morning dancing around the house in a state of glee.

I hadn’t seen Connor at all that morning and it got to be around noon before I finally just went ahead and asked about him.

“Hey, Richard, where’s Connor?” I asked. “I haven’t seen him at all today.”

Richard chuckled as he responded.

“Oh, well, that’s something you’re going to have to get used to about him,” he explained. “That boy takes his work very seriously. He gets up at four in the morning and starts doing chores around the farm. Then he lifts weights, goes for a run and takes care of the horses. And that’s all before noon.”

“Wow,” I said. “Seriously?”

Richard nodded. “Yeah, I guess I taught him a good work ethic. Maybe too good.”

I smiled and then walked toward the front door of the house.

“I’m going to go find him and see what he’s up to,” I said, as I pushed open the screen door and stepped out onto the front porch.

I was excited to get out of the house so that Richard and Mom could have some privacy. I glanced around the farm, looking for Connor as I stepped off of the porch and onto the dirt driveway. Immediately, I heard the sound of metal banging on metal. The noise was coming from the barn.

“What in the heck is that noise?” I said, out loud.

I then started walking that direction. The noise got louder and as soon as I turned the corner, I saw Connor standing in the barn. He was in front of an iron anvil, banging a red hot, metal horseshoe with a large blacksmith’s hammer.

He didn’t notice me as I stepped closer, so I just stood there and watched for a moment. He was wearing a red flannel shirt and the sleeves were rolled up, revealing his muscular arms, which flexed as he hit the horseshoe. A light layer of sweat covered his skin, causing it to shine in the sunlight.

Connor hit the horseshoe a few more times and then picked it up with a pair of pliers. He then immediately dropped it into a bucket of water, which caused a loud sizzling noise and a burst of steam to shoot upward into the air. He then reached into the water and pulled out the horseshoe. Then he lifted it in the air, admiring his work.

“It looks like you’ve done that before,” I said, finally making my presence known.

Connor turned around, looking a bit shocked.

“Damn, Emily,” he said. “You scared me. I didn’t know you were standing there.”

I giggled and then stepped closer to him.

“Sorry,” I said. “I was just watching you do your thing.”

Connor smiled and then motioned me to come closer.

“Come here,” he said. “I’ll show you what I’m doing.

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