Now and Forever by Mary Connealy

Author:Mary Connealy [Connealy, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance - Christian, 19th Century
ISBN: 9781441269546
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Goodreads: 23411530
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

17

Tucker had crutched his way out to the fence Coulter’s men had built over the last week. He got along with one crutch these days and could make pretty good time.

Coulter would be bringing his cattle over soon to start grazing on the lush grass on Shannon’s homestead.

It was nearing sunset. Aaron and Nev had come over, as they did most days to help round up these stupid sheep and lock them in the barn so the wolves wouldn’t eat them overnight.

The sheep were in their own little corral, and there was plenty of grazing and water. The wolves started to run in a pack this time of year and howled at night, so you’d think the sheep would know their being inside was a good thing. But they must have as much wool inside their heads as outside, because the critters always fought getting locked up.

Shannon was inside having coffee with Kylie and Sunrise, leaving the nightly roundup to the men, which meant it would be a rodeo because the sheep liked her and hated everybody else.

Sunrise had moved her teepee from Aaron’s house to Tucker’s. She lived in the woods, out of sight. She had a knack for being around when she was needed and vanishing when she wasn’t, and since Shannon wouldn’t cook Tucker any food with meat in it, Tucker needed Sunrise a lot.

As for the sheep, as much as Shannon loved them, she seemed to enjoy leaving them to do the nightly roundup, something Tucker took as a good sign—that she was leaving men’s work to the men. Except he knew good and well the only reason she’d abandon her sheep was a perverse desire to make everyone’s life harder. She was still cranky about Coulter’s fence and the thought of his cattle coming over, even though she’d agreed to it.

Coulter was grouchy, too. He was getting the grass and water he wanted, but what he was really after was to own it all, not rent. Since everyone was about equally mad at him, Tucker figured that meant he’d handled this problem with the wisdom of Solomon. Only trouble was, he didn’t give a hoot how Gage Coulter felt, and he’d really been hoping Shannon would start thinking wifely thoughts about him by now.

Solomon had himself seven hundred wives. How in the world did he manage, even smart as he was supposed to be? If he’d been really smart, surely he’d have married a lot less often. One wife was more than Tucker was up to handling.

In fact, the one was so irritating that Tucker needed to take his irritation out on someone, so he didn’t bother being polite—not even to the man carrying an ornery sheep while Tucker leaned on the fence and coddled his stupid broken leg. “You don’t need to stick around, Masterson. I know you want to head for New York.”

“Virginia, actually.”

“All that land back east seems like New York to me.” Tucker folded his arms on the top rail of Coulter’s fence and glared at the ram that’d just kicked Nev Bassett in the gut.

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