Tall Dark Stranger (Cajun Cowboys Book 1) by Patricia Watters

Author:Patricia Watters [Watters, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cajun Cowboys Series, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Mother, Hearts Desire, Clean & Wholesome, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Animals-Horses & Cattle, Beautiful & Feisty, Cowboy & Western Romance, Southwest Louisiana's Prairie Country, Dissociative Fugue Amnesia
Publisher: Patricia Watters
Published: 2020-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

While Joe and Ace worked together replacing old shingles on the barn roof, Joe felt depressed in a way he hadn't since the day Anne disappeared over six months before. Being served papers and watching Anne leave in a police car under the pretense that Joey needed guardians made him fuming mad. But shortly after, when he went to the Harrison's for the first time in his life and entered a house with an entry hall big enough to park a truck, and found Anne wearing a silk robe that probably cost more than his new kitchen cabinets, it was clear he didn't belong in the Harrison's world. But now he questioned if Anne belonged in his.

He had no problem wearing a shirt to the table as Anne requested, and his mother expected the same, but he wondered if after the newness of married life would begin to wear off, how many more rules would begin to sift into their lives. More important, how many breaches of Anne's family's social demands would she begin to find among his family.

Theirs was a simple lifestyle. Family was something to hold onto, not walk away from to start a new life somewhere else. His family, cousins, aunts and uncles lived in the same parish as the church most of them had attended since they were baptized. Even godparents stayed close because that's the way it had always been in their Cajun world. Families were there for each other, whether it was butchering animals, working cattle, or helping build or repair houses.

That wasn't the way Anne was raised. Families didn't work together over there. They hired the work done. And even though occasions like Christmas were a time of family gathering, it was different there. Anne described how they'd sit around a table set with so many kinds of silverware his head would spin just trying to figure out which to use for what. Joey would learn all about it from them, but what would his attitude be after visiting grandparents who'd indulge him with high-tech toys while surrounded by affluence and luxury, only to come home to old barns, bleating cows, and a father and uncles splattered in mud after a day in the saddle?

He gazed across the cane field at a complex of buildings that included a state-of-the arts stable, a training track with a top-of-the-line starting gate, several paddocks, and a home so out of his league he'd be more contented living in the stable with the horses.

Before Anne disappeared he'd given little thought to lifestyles. She'd convinced him she didn't want luxuries, she only wanted him, and that's all he needed to hear. But theirs was an unrealistic dream. Something akin to Anne's dissociative fugue. Before Anne disappeared was their fugue period, but last night he came out of the fugue in a place he didn't belong, and once Anne got her memory back, she'd compare her family's lifestyle with his, and the house she grew up in with

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