Take the Reins (A Cowboy's Promise Book 2) by Megan Squires

Author:Megan Squires [Squires, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

14

Josie

You should call Mom. She’s been asking about you.

Josie reread the text from her older sister, Maren. Funny how she could hear the critical tone so clearly in those typed words.

Will do, she punched across her phone screen.

The Friar women used to have a relatively good relationship. But then tragedy struck, along with a lightning storm of lies that hit even harder. It was funny how—in one instant—life itself could completely upend. It had been years since her father’s death, but it was still the marker of things. Everything that came before was now washed in the haze of deceit. Everything after…well, it was like starting over.

You up for an adventure?

Josie had to do a double take. This text wasn’t from Maren.

She smiled as she read Seth’s name at the top of her screen.

Depends what your idea of adventure is.

She didn’t like the way her heart picked up speed as she impatiently watched the typing bubbles pulse on the screen.

You okay to ride a horse with that cast?

She snorted. I could ride a horse with no hands if I had to. It’s all in the legs. You should know that, cowboy.

And butt and thighs, but she left out those body parts. Just thinking them in regards to Seth made her face flush with warmth.

The bubbles on the screen were their own kind of unique torture. When the phone finally vibrated with a reply, she jumped so suddenly the cell almost flew right out of her hand.

I don’t have a response to that.

More text bubbles…

Meet me at the barn in ten.

Josie didn’t need all ten minutes. She was there in five.

“Looks like you’re thinking what I’m thinking.” He tugged on the sleeve of his rain jacket that matched Josie’s, all the way down to the olive green, camouflage print. “I can feel the storm coming.”

“Same.”

It was in the whipping of the wind that forced Josie to secure her hair back with a rubber band. It was in the petrichor scent of the air, that musky, earthy aroma that permeated the damp atmosphere before the clouds opened up and the deluge began. It was in the slight ache of her bones that knew something was shifting in the climate around her. It was everywhere.

“You can ride Sally, my mom’s broodmare. She’s a good old gal. I’ve got her all tacked up and ready to go for you.” Seth handed off the reins hooked on the bridle of the bay horse. “There’s a first time calver out in the field that looks to need some assistance. I’m hoping to get to her before the storm gets to us, but we’ll have to hurry.”

Seth stooped with a bended knee and interlocked his fingers to give Josie a boost up and onto the horse’s long back. She settled into the saddle and tried to avert her eyes when he hiked his leg over his own horse in the smoothest, sexiest motion she’d ever seen. She shook her head. Maybe the impending storm was messing with more of her senses than she realized.

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