The Cowboy's Triple Surprise by Barbara White Daille

Author:Barbara White Daille
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-12-19T18:07:06+00:00

Chapter Twelve

After an early breakfast at the Hitching Post, Tyler left the hotel. The sun was already bright, promising a warm day. Long, empty hours stretched ahead of him, and he planned a ride to fill up some of that time. He couldn’t have described his surroundings, could never have found his way back to the hotel later on, if not for Freedom. He trusted the stallion to be his eyes and ears.

More than once, he had acknowledged he’d long passed the point he should have headed back to Texas. That wasn’t going to happen while he had unfinished business here.

He returned from his ride midmorning, and had just settled Freedom in his stall again when Cole came into the barn.

“Tyler, we meet at last. You’re making a real habit of disappearing. I went to the dining room for breakfast, and Jed said you had eaten already. And when I finished reading Robbie a story after supper last night, I couldn’t find you anywhere.”

“Keeping tabs on me?”

“No. But it looks like I might have to start, just to make sure you stay out of trouble. Where’d you run off to last night?”

“The hospital.” During the evening visiting hours, his conversation with Shay about the babies had given him the feeling he had made a degree of progress at winning her over, that he had taken one step down the road to making her understand he was serious about helping her...financially.

“How are Shay and the kids? Tina went into town to see them the other day and said those babies are really something. Then again, she says that about every kid.”

“They are something, all three of them. Cutest babies I’ve ever seen.” Not that he’d seen many of them that up close and personal. “Smart, too.”

“Sounds like you’ve got a big helping of fatherly pride there.”

He shrugged. “Just stating the truth. When I went back last night—”

“Back? You mean you went there before?”

“Yesterday morning. What’s the matter, doesn’t the Cowboy Creek gossip make it out here to the ranch?”

Cole snorted. “Sometimes I think it all gets reported in here. Jed always knows what’s going on—though I’m not knocking him. I told you before, he’s got a good heart. Now, what makes these kids of yours so smart?”

“When I picked them up out of their cribs again last night, they recognized me.”

“How could you tell?”

“They smiled at me.”

Cole snickered. “Man, newborns don’t smile. They were only making faces at you because they were passing gas.”

“No, they weren’t.”

Now the other man laughed out loud. “You think you have this new-daddy role figured out, don’t you?” When Tyler frowned, Cole raised both hands. “Calm down. I’m just pulling your leg, not picking on your kids.”

The comment made him think of what he’d said to Shay about his father not supporting him. He hadn’t intended to tell her that, but her easy assumption about his parents being as caring as Mo pushed him into it.

“There won’t be anybody picking on Timothy once he gets bigger.

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