Slow Ride Home (The Grady Legacy) by Braemel Leah

Author:Braemel, Leah [Braemel, Leah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2013-11-10T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Lunch at Fort Worth relaxed Ben’s shoulders and made Allie glad she’d agreed to play hooky for the rest of the day. After they shared a plate of ribs and fries down at the Stockyards, they wandered through the lane of tourist trap stores then headed up the street to check out a store selling real cowboy hats, not the type found in the touristy shops.

Allie laughed as he tried on a huge white ten-gallon hat. “Not your style, Hoss.”

He placed the hat back on the rack with a fond pat. “Hoss was Pop’s favorite of all the Cartwrights. He once told me that he remembered sitting on Gramp’s lap, watching it when he was little. Then Gram told me the same story when we were waiting at the hospital after his accident. One day I want...” He shook his head.

“What? One day you want...”

“It’s stupid.”

“No, it isn’t. Tell me. I promise I won’t laugh.”

“One day I want to have a kid of my own, sit them on my lap and watch it with them. Tell him about their grandpa.” He cleared his throat and stuck his hands in his pockets, not meeting her gaze. “You want to go down to the White Elephant and have a beer?”

Her own throat clogged at the image, Allie checked her watch. “Let’s play tourist instead and go watch the cattle drive.”

She caught his hand and dragged him to where the tourists were already gathering. As they passed a family with a little girl sitting on a longhorn, he shook his head. “I sure hope they never stop off at my place and think my bulls are that friendly. There’s an accident waiting to happen.”

His running commentary about how cattle seldom went in the same direction as you wanted and how the cowboys leading the half dozen head had it easy had her laughing. Soon several of the real tourists surrounded him to ask questions about ranching and cattle, especially when they discovered he was a real cattleman. The cattle drive long over and still the tourists lingered, wanting to hear his tales. Allie looped her arm in his. “Sorry, folks, we’ve got to get back to the ranch. There are stalls to be cleaned and animals fed.”

“I felt like I was holding a bucket of slop in the middle of the hog pen.” He shot her a grateful glance as the crowd dispersed, but a smile tweaked the corners of his lips telling her he’d loved every minute of it.

Laughing, she hugged him and leaned back her head, looking up at him. No wonder the tourists lapped him up. Hollywood couldn’t have cast a better leading man in a western. With his sun-lightened hair and bright blue eyes, she’d take him over one of the suit-wearing moneymakers in downtown Dallas any day. “So, what do you want to do now?”

“Well,” he replied, wrapping his arm around her shoulder and leading back to the parking lot. “It just happens I made a reservation for us at a very upscale hotel.

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