Once Upon a Cowboy by Maggie McGinnis

Author:Maggie McGinnis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2015-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“Heard my wife gave you an assignment.” Decker winked as he came through the spa door later that afternoon. “Convince her to stay yet?”

Cole shrugged noncommittally, even though he knew he probably couldn’t fool Decker anyway. “She’s a big girl. She’ll make her own decisions.”

“Right. So you just happened to head to the stable two minutes after she did this morning?”

“Absolutely. What can I say? I’m good.”

“Oh, you’re something, all right.” Decker gazed around the room. “So why are we here? Kyla and Jess have ideas you need me to take a look at?”

“No. We’re going upstairs, actually.”

“We’ve already got two thousand feet downstairs. Don’t tell me Kyla wants a two-story spa?”

“Nope.” Cole started up the stairs. “Better.”

When they had both reached the second story, Cole walked out into the middle of the huge space. Just like on the bottom floor, windows occupied almost every square inch of wall space, bringing in light from every possible angle. In the original design for the building, they’d had fewer windows on the second story, but Kyla had insisted they mirror the downstairs, and now that he stood in the middle of the space, Cole was glad they’d gone to the extra expense.

Future expansion, Kyla had said. Daycare. Executive meeting space. Wedding suite. You never know!

She’d been right, as usual, but he wasn’t viewing this space as any of those things right now. No, he had a much better vision in mind, and he had a feeling Kyla would wholeheartedly approve.

“Okay, enlighten me. Why are we here?” Decker turned around slowly. “Damn, this is a nice space.”

Cole took a deep breath and unrolled a long piece of paper he’d been sketching on for half the night. Yeah, Decker was the architect of the family. Everyone knew that. But he’d had to take a stab at this, had to see if he could make an attempt at creating something out of all this empty space.

With four quick taps of his hammer, he pinned it up on the wall. “Take a look.”

Decker drew his eyebrows together, stepping toward the sketch. “What’s this?”

“A vision. Just a stab at it—a crude sketch. But I’d be curious to know what you think.”

Decker put his hands on his hips, leaning in a bit to scan the drawing. Cole hated that he felt like biting his own damn fingernails while he waited to see what Decker would say.

Which was nothing.

For what felt like ten minutes he stared, and cocked his head, then cocked it the other way, then took a step back, then forward again, but still didn’t utter a word.

“Well?” Cole finally asked, unable to take it any longer. If Decker was going to say the sketch was complete crap, he’d rather he just came right out with it, rather than take all this time to sugarcoat his feedback.

“Holy shit.”

He waited another minute while Decker pointed at something with his index finger, tracing it along the drawing and finally nodding slowly. “Just a quick question for you: Did you sketch this out before you decided to try to get Jess to stay, or after?”

Cole shrugged.

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