The Cowboy's Baby Blessing by Deb Kastner

Author:Deb Kastner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Love Inspired
Published: 2017-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Rachel was looking.

It was hard not to—an attractive cowboy teaching his son how to ride a horse. Caden laughing. Seth grinning with the same glow in his blue eyes as when she’d seen him on the auction block performing his beloved parkour for a crowd of people.

And the casual way he’d inserted a term of endearment into the conversation—making it almost a cliché but not quite.

Just enough to throw her for a loop.

It probably meant nothing. Likely, he’d simply misquoted the old saying.

Baby. Sweetheart.

She could see how they could get mixed up.

But his words sent a tremor of awareness down her spine nonetheless.

She closed her eyes, struggling to counteract those thoughts and feelings by reminding herself not to take them seriously. Seth loved to tease. Even if he had meant what he’d said, it was only in good fun, and that was how Rachel was going to take it.

It was the only way she would take it.

She ought to be concentrating on staying on Fancy’s back, not on analyzing a handsome cowboy’s word choice, especially now that Jax had left them for a few minutes to go check on his twin baby girls.

And anyway, that was the shocking thing in this whole situation—she actually was staying on the horse. She’d made a few circuits of the corral, and she hadn’t slipped off the saddle. This was amazing. Pride welled in Rachel’s chest.

She was riding a horse.

Riding a horse!

She couldn’t believe where this day had gone. She’d had no intention of riding when she’d come out earlier.

Who knew she would be on a horse, enjoying a relaxed walk around the corral like a regular horsewoman? She was starting to get used to Fancy’s slow, rocking rhythm and was adapting to it. She wasn’t even clinging to the saddle horn anymore.

She wasn’t trotting like Seth and Zooey were, but she counted the fact that she was staying in the saddle at all as a win.

“Storm’s the one for Caden,” Seth said definitively. “Now, what about Fancy and Monty?”

Rachel narrowed her gaze. Caden needed only one horse. But Seth had a sparkle in his eyes that she couldn’t quite read.

“What about them?”

“I was just thinking,” he said mildly, “that there you are, doing well on Fancy, and Zooey on Monty. You both have good matches, too, right?”

She could see where he was going with this.

Kind of.

He had to be teasing, right? Seth with his typical enthusiastic shortsightedness. A horse was an enormous investment, never mind two. And it wasn’t as if she were going to become a regular rider.

Zooey was already beaming in anticipation.

Rachel caught Seth’s eye and shook her head. This was so not a done deal.

“I have a cat. Myst wouldn’t like sharing the house with a couple of horses.”

“Mom,” Zooey pleaded. “I’ll throw in all the allowance I’ve saved up.”

She met Zooey’s gaze. “You don’t have enough allowance to buy a horse. You used it bidding on Seth, remember?”

“There’s plenty of room in the Bar H stable,” Seth added.

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