The Cowboy Lawman by Brenda Minton

Author:Brenda Minton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2012-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Mia stood next to Travis as he unloaded the gelding she had asked to borrow for the Friday-night rodeo. The horse, a pretty roan, backed out of the trailer without a halter, not seeming to care what was going on around them. She liked that about him.

“You’re sure about this?” Travis handed over the lead rope.

“Why wouldn’t I be? Come on, you’re the one who offered the horse.”

“Right, and I’m the guy in trouble if you get hurt.”

“I take full responsibility.”

She led the horse around the trailer and tied him. His dark gray tail swished. Travis pulled the saddle, pad and bridle out of the trailer.

“There you go.” Travis stood behind her, hands behind his back, hat pulled low. “Elizabeth is heading this way to try to talk you out of this.”

“I can handle her.”

“Right.” He grinned that cute grin of his that had gotten him in a lot of trouble over the years, until Elizabeth came along. “Let me saddle him for you.”

“I can do it. You go do what you need to do.”

“I’m going to saddle my horse after I buy my pretty wife a burger.”

Elizabeth walked up, with a baby bump and a soft glow on her face. “You’re really going to do this?”

“I have one good arm and a great horse.”

Elizabeth looked the horse over. She had learned to ride, but admitted that it wasn’t her favorite hobby. She still made trips to St. Louis to help with the family business, although those trips had stopped with the baby on the way.

“Just be careful.”

Mia smiled at her sister-in-law. “I’ll be careful.”

Travis put an arm around his wife’s waist. “Buy you dinner, Mrs. Cooper?”

“Yum, rodeo fare, my favorite.” She wrinkled her nose and laughed.

But she hooked her arm around Travis’s and off they went, an unlikely couple. Mia watched them for a minute, smiling and then feeling strangely sad. Maybe because lately everyone she knew had turned into a couple. Except Heather. At least Heather was still single. And possibly moving closer to home so they could see each other more often. Not that Grove was that far from Dawson, just fifteen minutes.

Mia had never seen herself as half of a couple. She’d been pretty content with her career. She’d been married to it, she guessed. And now? Divorced from it. The thought ached deep down because she was starting to face the loss.

She picked up the saddle pad and eased it into place on the back of the roan gelding. The saddle would be more difficult—she knew that. Her left arm had gotten stronger because she had relied on it for the past couple of months, but her brain refused to believe she was now left-handed.

She lifted the saddle and eased her weak right arm under the leather skirt. Pain shot through her arm into her shoulder. She took a deep breath and lifted, putting the pressure on her left arm. But she couldn’t get it high enough. The horse moved away from her, pulling the lead rope loose.

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