Red Hot: A Friends to Lovers Small Town Rom Com by Cat Johnson

Red Hot: A Friends to Lovers Small Town Rom Com by Cat Johnson

Author:Cat Johnson [Johnson, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cat Johnson
Published: 2020-01-27T18:30:00+00:00


THIRTEEN

Cash

“Where have you been?” Stone asked.

“Nowhere,” I said as I moved to grab a bale of hay to toss to the horses for their afternoon feeding.

Stone crossed his arms over his chest and watched me. “First you run out of here without a word, then you disappear for well over an hour. And now you say you’ve been nowhere.”

“I’m not saying I agree with your summary of my afternoon, but all right, let’s say I do. What’s your point?” I asked.

Annoyed, as I’d hoped, Stone let out a huff. “My point is, you had to be some place.”

Actually, I’d been many places. Red’s carriage house, where I’d nabbed the calf. The old shed on the back of our property here, where I’d stashed the calf.

My secret errand took longer than I’d hoped it would and I’d been missed.

The calf was young, so I’d had to feed it with a bottle and set it up with enough straw it could stay warm until I could slip it in with our calves. But I couldn’t do that until I had time to remove the auction house’s ear tag. That was evidence I wanted gone.

Stone didn’t need to know any of that.

“Nope. I wasn’t anywhere.” I shook my head, then pinned Stone with a stare. “Shouldn’t you be with your girl? She seemed pretty upset last I saw her.”

“Harper went over to Red’s. She figured Red would need the support after they came and took back the calf.”

“Hmm. Good idea.” I nodded.

It was all I could do to control my grin knowing that the auction company wasn’t getting that calf back. Not today. Not while I was around to prevent it.

Of course, Red wouldn’t know I had the animal. I’d left the back door open so they’d think it could have gotten out on its own and not blame her.

Did they believe that? Did Red? What was she thinking right now?

It could be pretty much anything. And she could be just as upset as if they had taken the calf from her. At that sobering thought I no longer had trouble controlling my grin.

I needed to finish these chores and get over to her place.

Whether I was going to tell her the truth or not was still up in the air in my mind. I wanted her to have plausible deniability.

If she didn’t know what had happened, she couldn’t be blamed for it. If I got caught, I wanted it to fall on me, not her.

God willing, I wouldn’t get caught. My father would flip. And Morgan Farm didn’t need that kind of negative press.

Even if all I did was provide more suitable accommodations for my friend’s calf that she’d found roaming the streets of Mudville, I was probably technically breaking the law.

If the stock company found out what I’d done and decided to come after me, I could get in a lot of trouble. Red hadn’t stolen the calf the way folks had accused her of doing, but by moving it out of her place, I suppose they could say I had stolen it.



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