The Drifter's Promise by Rita Hestand

Author:Rita Hestand
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, historical romance, western romance, fiction love, bride romance, brides of the west series, western brides
Publisher: Rita Hestand

Chapter Fourteen

The way things were going, Wes knew he should be leaving now. But there was the hay to get in, and then he promised to find her some help.

The problem was he was beginning to have real feelings for Kate, and he knew that wasn't wise. He was a perpetual drifter. He had little money, and nothing to offer a woman. If he let things go much further, he'd have to marry her, and people would assume it was for her land, and not for the feelings that were growing every day he was around her.

He could smell the sweet fragrance of her hair, the guarded looks she threw at him from time to time.

But despite his inner feelings, they had to get the hay finished. So every day she joined him in the field, and they worked from sunup to sundown. She'd fix such great meals and both men enjoyed her cooking.

Dickens had taken to feeding and grooming the animals, collecting the eggs, and seeing to minor repairs around the house for her.

Between the three of them, the place was beginning to take shape now. When they had another wagon load of hay Wes drove it over toward the Campbell's and several other ranchers that needed a supply for the winter to come.

The last trip Dickens went with him. Wes wanted to object and let Kate go with him in case she wanted to visit with Frank Campbell, but Kate made no reference to it, so he shrugged and took Dickens.

"I thought we weren't gonna leave her alone." Wes reminded Dickens.

"Well, it's been a while and it don't look like the Smith boys are gonna bother her." Dickens chuckled.

"Are you sure they ever were going to bother her?"

Dickens turned to look at him, "Naw, but I figured they might try something sooner or later. Since that cat incident and one of the boys dying, I guess it took the starch out of them."

"Maybe you are right about that."

"We won't be gone that long, anyways." Dickens chuckled. "You got back in a half day, the last time."

"That's true."

"Don't you fret, I'll still pay you." Dickens chuckled.

"So tell me Wes, what do you think of Kate?"

Wes folded his lips and glared at Dickens. "She's a nice lady."

"And that's all?"

"Well what else is there?"

"She's right pretty, and she's singled."

"So?"

"So," Dickens glanced at him. "If you like her, you better start thinking on how to rope and hog tie her or someone else might."

"Who said anything about wanting to rope and hog tie her?" Wes frowned.

"Nobody, but that girl is ripe for the picking, that's all. And if you don't, someone else will." Dickens told him.

"It's none of your business. Besides," Wes heard himself confessing. "I got nothing to offer her. I'm a drifter, remember."

"Maybe, but she's got something worth stopping all that drifting for. She's a good cook, a good housekeeper, and a good hand in the field. And you know as well as I she can't keep this place up alone.

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