Mountain Country Cowboy by Glynna Kaye

Author:Glynna Kaye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Love Inspired
Published: 2017-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Cash didn’t understand.

She’d so desperately needed to share with someone the secret she’d kept hidden in her heart since last fall. And when Cash told her of his mother’s experiences that were so similar to her own, when he said he’d given his life to God a few years ago, when he said how much he cared for her mom, the timing seemed right. An answered prayer.

But he’d misunderstood everything. Had planted doubts in her mind.

I can’t buy that following this passion you say you have is the payment He’s exacting from you to spare your mom’s life.

Who was he to make a judgment like that? But his words troubled her the next few days although neither spoke of it as they teamed up on trail rides, evaluated the new offerings, welcomed Gypsy’s daughter into the world and continued Joey’s riding lessons. It was evident that the youngster was a born horseman, just like his father.

“Did you and Cash have a falling out?” Her mom, pulling a Sunday breakfast casserole out of the oven as Rio poured the orange juice, glanced inquisitively in her direction.

Caught off guard at the abrupt change in subject—they’d been discussing when her older sisters, Claire and Bekka, might be coming for a visit—she frowned. “What makes you think that?”

“You haven’t mentioned him for days, and he’s usually a topic of our mealtime conversations.”

Had she talked about him that much recently? So much so that when she didn’t it was noticeable?

“I wouldn’t say we had a falling out.” She retrieved the sliced cantaloupe and honeydew from the fridge. “Not exactly, anyway. More like a difference of opinion.”

“Not surprising there would be some of that.”

“Why?”

“You’re both independent, headstrong young people who butted heads as kids. Both like to be boss. But I sense you have an interest in him. True?”

“Who, me?” Interested in a man who’d shot down the sliver of hope for her mother’s healing that she’d clung to since last fall? And surely her mother wasn’t suggesting a man with Cash’s history—despite his denials—as a possible love interest for a daughter who’d gone through what she had.

“I don’t hear you denying that your childhood crush may linger on.”

Rio laughed as she pulled a spatula from a kitchen drawer. “What crush? Cash and I were foes from the word go.”

Mom smiled. “You had the biggest crush on him. Followed him around. Got in his way. Teased and poked and prodded him into noticing you any way you could.”

“Reality check here, Mom.” She self-consciously rearranged the dishes on the red-and-white-checked tablecloth, aware that her mother was watching her with undisguised amusement. “He locked me in a closet, remember? That traumatized me for weeks. He’d send me off on wild-goose chases to find things for him that didn’t exist. Would hide from me. Convinced me, like something out of Tom Sawyer, that cleaning out the slobbery gunk in the bottom of feed buckets was fun and he’d let me do his share because I was so special.

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