Texas Lawman by Carolyn Davidson

Author:Carolyn Davidson [Davidson, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780373293360
Amazon: 0373293364
Goodreads: 2141648
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Sunday afternoon, after church service and dinner had been tended to, found all three of them measuring the available space in the shed for another stall. Jamie joined them, hammer in hand, and Sarah was sent to the kitchen to put together a picnic.

Later she brought out a basket filled with the over-flow from her kitchen. Cinnamon buns left from the night before, thick slices of ham from the noon meal and biscuits she’d slid into the oven just a half hour before, along with a bowl of potato salad, completed the meal and they sat on a blanket outside the shed to enjoy the abundant feast.

“The stall is pretty well done, Miss Sarah,” Jamie said, placing a slice of ham on the bottom half of his biscuit and covering it with the top. “We’ll be ready for Stephen’s horse by the middle of the week.”

Stephen wiggled excitedly. “I can’t hardly wait!” he exclaimed, his grammar gone by the wayside. It was all Sarah could do not to hug him close, so appealing were his actions. He was growing up, she thought, and she’d do well to give him the respect due a young man, lest he think she saw him as a baby.

They cleaned up their picnic, and Stephen all but scooted Jamie out the front door, so anxious for another session of reading he barely observed the manners he’d been taught. It was all right with Jamie, for Brace said he’d been off sparking with a town girl for the past weeks and had already planned an assignation with the young lady for after Sunday-evening vesper services.

The continued reading of Robinson Crusoe came next, and the three of them decided they should devote their evenings to the story, enjoying two chapters a night. Stephen tried his best to argue for three, but gave in gracefully at a nod from Brace.

“I think it’s time for bed, son,” Brace told him. “School tomorrow, don’t forget.”

“It’s almost summertime,” Stephen said. “In fact, it was pretty hot today.”

“We have another month before school will be out,” Sarah told him.

“And then I can work at training my horse, can’t I?”

“Yes, I think that sounds like a good idea. There’s a lot involved, you know. We’ll have to talk to Nicholas to find out just what we need to do.”

Stephen nodded happily, kissed his aunt and hugged Brace with a strength that surprised the man. “I’m going to bed,” he announced.

“Shall I go up with you?” Sarah asked.

“Naw. I’m old enough to take care of myself,” he said. And then, as an afterthought as he climbed the stairs, he called back to her. “You can stop in later and say good night if you want to.”

Sarah knew a moment of joy as she recognized his need of her. He was growing up, but a woman’s touch was still important in his young life. She said as much to Brace and was pleased by the look of affection he cast her way.

“A boy never gets over needing a woman’s touch,” he said.

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