Last Year's Bride (Montana Born Brides) by Anne McAllister

Author:Anne McAllister [McAllister, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tule Publishing Group
Published: 2014-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

She knew he’d be a natural. For all that Cole had a silent, suck-it-up-and-get-it-done approach to his own life, he was patient with other people.

The summer she’d dated him, Nell had dragged Cole along when she’d shot a short promo piece on a bunch of Girl Scouts at a horseback riding event. He’d been amazing with the girls, endlessly kind and low-key, helping them, making things easier for the leaders who were not exactly going to win cowgirl of the year awards. She’d seen him with the little kids who came to the rodeo, showing them how to hold a rope or resin a glove. She’d seen him take time with old ladies who’d batted their lashes at him in Reno asking if he was a ‘real cowboy.’ He’d even posed for a picture with some of them.

And if he didn’t thrill to being on camera now, and if he thought he had nothing at all in common with her reality TV guys, he still treated them respectfully. Keith had grown up on a farm in the Midwest, so he had the most experience. But Seth was a born and bred SoCal surfer, Chandler was a trust-fund multi-millionaire from Connecticut, and Mac, well, Mac never said where he’d come from. But he’d made sure they all knew right off that he was at the top of the investment company he worked for, and he didn’t have time for foolishness.

Cole treated them all equally. He didn’t act like they were stupid when they didn’t know what he had learned at his father’s knee. He didn’t find fault when they screwed up. He just showed them again or showed them another way to do what needed to be done.

Keith took to it easily. Chandler actually made an effort. Seth rolled his eyes, but when Cole said, “Here. Hold this,” he held it, and did what Cole told him to until Cole told him to let go.

Mac was trying to get a cell phone signal all the time the other guys were feeding cattle. Cole didn’t say comment except to say, “Try mine.” He handed Mac his own phone.

Nell knew Cole didn’t get service most places on the ranch. Mac found that out pretty quickly, too. And once he knew it wasn’t just his phone that didn’t work there, he stopped trying, tucked his phone back in his pocket and handed Cole back his much older, more battered model. “Thanks. I’ll try later when we get to the house.” And then he pitched in and helped, too.

“I suppose you want me to teach them how to deliver a calf, too,” Cole said to her when the calves were fed and they were on their way back to the ranch house. The crew and the reality guys were riding in the bed of the truck or the pickup they’d brought along. She and Cole were in the cab together, just the two of them. It had been Cole’s idea. Nell wanted to bring up

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