The Confident Cowboy: A Sweet Later in Life Romance by Macie St. James

Author:Macie St. James [James, Macie St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

4

Valentine’s Day hadn’t been the same since Gus’s wife died. The holiday had been a big deal to Sharon, so he’d always pulled out all the stops to make it special. Usually, that meant leaving town every year in search of finer dining. A couple of times, they’d even made an overnight trip out of it.

But like Valentine’s Day last year, the year before, and the year before that, Gus did his best to distract himself with work. As night fell, though, he found himself getting a little restless, and that was when his attention drifted to the property to the right of theirs.

He stood on his front porch, looking in that direction, and thought about the family living there. He’d never dared do it before, but what would happen if he grabbed one of his horses and…?

As he tended to do lately, when Gus got an idea, he went for it. He hopped in his truck, drove out to the horse barn, grabbed one of his horses, and took a ride toward the fence that separated their property from their neighbors.

It was a rickety old fence. In fact, Gus had strict rules about keeping the cattle away from this part of the property. He didn’t trust it. There were clear gaps in the fencing, and at times, parts of it fell completely down.

As he approached it tonight, in fact, he saw that his boys hadn’t come out and done their routine check in a while. An entire section had collapsed at some point, felled by a tree that still rested next to the nearest post.

Gus hopped down, tying his horse to a section of the fence that wasn’t on the ground, and went to work clearing a path for them to get through. In minutes, he had an opening and was back on his horse, galloping straight onto Cupid Ridge Dude Ranch.

Technically, he wasn’t trespassing. This was legally his family’s land. But if he could get Bobbie to agree to partner with him in the movie theater…

He smiled as he remembered showing up at the movie theater at the same time as her. Matinees were his biggest secret. He snuck away from the ranch every week to catch whatever the newest movie was. The movie theater changed what it was showing every Friday morning, so he’d be there at opening, get a large popcorn and soda, and settle in for at least an hour and a half of pure escapism. It’d never once occurred to him that Bobbie Ludington might have the same secret.

Gus guided his horse, Cash, across the property toward the main drag that ran in and out of the ranch. It was very similar to theirs. He not only had the property records, but he’d checked out the satellite view online years ago and then again earlier this week.

He wasn’t there tonight to spy. Yes, he’d been a bit nosy the first time he’d looked up the property, but his most recent peek at it had been motivated by something completely different.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.