The Quiet Storm by Lyn Austin

Author:Lyn Austin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, drama, true love, desire, danger, contemporary, ranch, plotting, montana, trust, stranger, boroughs publishing group, lyn austin, soul deep
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group

Chapter Fifteen

The McBride boys came to help at Red Rock, and together they did Ceil’s entire batch of newborns in five days as predicted. All was quiet at both ranches. This in itself made Randee nervous. Every night she thanked her lucky stars Chase had decided to stay for a while; she would have been too nervous to sleep if she’d been at the ranch alone. Not that knowing he was outside in that one-room cabin didn’t cost her a night or two as well.

Ceil had the McBride boys spending a few nights with her. Rex was stuck in the hospital and was an ornery old grump.

As the end of April neared, the snow was gone in the valley, leaving the ground soggy and cold. The endless Montana skies were thick with clouds most of the time, rain adding more moisture that would be needed later in the summer. There was still an occasional snow flurry, but Randee didn’t mind because she knew the weightless flakes would melt in a matter of seconds on the ground. The earlier promise of a warm spring was upon them.

Randee’s tension had eased somewhat over the last three days and the weather helped raise all their spirits, except for Rex, who had seven more days in the hospital and took it upon himself to make sure everyone there was a miserable as he was. Rex complained every evening about the food and anything else he could think of, and by his ninth day every nurse and the orderly had absorbed their fill and told Randee they couldn’t wait for her to take the cantankerous old bastard home. He was driving everybody nuts.

“You be here at six sharp tomorrow morning,” Rex said when he was finally cleared for release. He obviously didn’t want to waste one minute of time.

“The doctor has to release you in the morning, and he doesn’t do rounds until nine,” Randee pointed out. “We’ll get the chores done and then we’ll be in.”

“Damn it, Randee. I want to get out of here!” Rex whined like a spoiled child.

“Not any more than the staff wants you out. See you when we get here. Love you. ’Night.”

“Good night, Chase,” her uncle said.

“See ya, Rex.”

Randee gave an exasperated sigh, and she and Chase left the room. “He’s going to drive us absolutely crazy,” she muttered as they walked down the hospital hallway. “The doctor told me today that Rex will be laid up for several weeks, possibly months! He’ll drive himself bat-shit and drag everybody along with him.”

It was pouring rain as they left the hospital. They had been eating together regularly, but Ceil had decided to stay home tonight and catch up on a few things around her house so that she would be free to take care of Rex upon his return. She had been to the hairdresser and even bought a new silk blouse.

“When I talked to Ceil today”— Randee thought back to their phone conversation earlier—“you’d have thought she was going to her prom.

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