Longhorns by Victor J. Banis

Author:Victor J. Banis [Banis, Victor J.]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The boys came back from town shortly, and Red put some of them

to digging a grave, the way Les had said, and then he went to where

Buck was already sound asleep on his pallet, and laid down gently

beside him, and put an arm around him, and Buck turned and nestled

up against him and murmured something too low to hear, still

asleep.

The baying of the dogs woke Red during the night. He had been

asleep with Buck cuddled in his arms like a child, and he extricated

himself gently from Buck's embrace, so as not to wake him.

It was the doctor who had ridden up, having been sent by Les,

who was still in town. He examined Mama's body, to make

everything official, but there wasn't much to see. Red had left the

coffee pot to keep warm at the back of the stove, and they drank a

cup of coffee together, not talking much, before the doctor left for

the ride back to town.

It was near morning by then, and despite the fact that he had gone

to bed late and drunk, Cookie came into the room just after the

doctor had gone. He said nothing. It seemed as if he had talked

himself out the night before, and he only nodded briefly in Red's

direction and began to stir about the kitchen.

Les was there by mid morning, with Miz Cameron, him driving

her buggy for her, with his palomino hitched behind them.

It was the first Buck had seen the owner of the ranch. She was a

little dumpling of a woman, dressed all in black, and holding a

parasol to protect her from the Texas sun. Her skin was pale white

and delicate-looking, and belied her years, and behind her gold-

rimmed spectacles, her eyes were bright and as blue as the

bluebonnets on the prairie. She smiled freely, and greeted most of

the old timers by name, remembering them even though she hardly

ever came to the ranch anymore. The boys, used to their own rough

and tumble way, were shy with her, but they looked glad to be

acknowledged, and all of them were on their best behavior the whole

time she was there.

The hands had dug the fresh grave out in the family graveyard

behind the house, which surprised Buck a little, since old Mama had

not been a part of the family, and he would have expected them to

dig it somewhere on the open plain.

"Seems like Miz Cameron, she thinks of every one of us here at

the Double H as family," Red said. "Always has done, her and Les

too. Everyone that dies here at the ranch, gets buried out there, same

as if they was kin. Reckon I will, too, one day, and I am glad to

know I will have a resting place, to tell you the truth. There's

cowboys just turn into dust and bones out there on the prairie, but I

believe I will sleep better knowing where I have been planted."

It struck Buck as mighty kind, that Miz Cameron would think of

her hands in that way, and he found himself inclined to like her

before he ever actually met her.

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