The Rancher's Blessed Event by Stella Bagwell

Author:Stella Bagwell [Bagwell, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury
Published: 2011-06-08T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Emily was on that damn Appaloosa again. Cooper knew she was an excellent rider and had been since she was a small child. He also had to admit the weather wasn’t all that bad for the end of November. But she was pregnant, for heaven’s sake! She should be in the house knitting or whatever it was women did when they were in the family way. But no, not her, he thought as he watched her from an inconspicuous place in the barn. Emily was a ranch woman inside and out. If she wasn’t helping him feed and care for the cattle, she was doing something with the horses or the tack.

Cooper had quit trying to send her back to the house. Especially after the encounter they’d had in her bedroom over two weeks ago. Since then, Cooper had come to the conclusion that he didn’t have the right to tell her anything. He wasn’t her husband. Nor the father of her child. He wasn’t even her lover. He was, in spite of ten years passing, just what he’d always been here on the Diamond D. An interloper. Yet he couldn’t leave. His conscience wouldn’t let him. Or was it his heart?

Deciding it was time he made an appearance, he walked out to the big round pen where she was exercising the horse. Resting his forearms over the metal rail fencing, he watched her rein the gelding first one way and then the other.

It was only a moment before she noticed his presence and walked the horse over to him.

“He handles very well,” Cooper told her.

She smiled. “Thank you. I believe he’s going to be my kind of pony. I almost wish it was roundup time so I could really give him a good workout. If he’s going to show his true colors it will be then.”

By roundup time in the spring, Emily’s baby would be born. She’d be able to ride as long and far as she wanted. And Cooper would be gone. He didn’t want to think about it, but he had to.

“Maybe the calf crop will be a good one come this spring.”

Emily looked down at him from atop the horse. Oddly enough she felt closer to him now than she ever had. Which didn’t make sense. That night in her bedroom his rejection had cut her to the quick. But afterward, when she’d had time to cool off and really think, her anger at him had vanished.

Emily had concluded it was probably for the best the two of them hadn’t made love. Cooper couldn’t let go of the past. And she wasn’t at all sure she could forget it, either. He’d left her when she’d needed him the most. And more than likely he would do it again.

“If we don’t have any late blizzards I think the calf crop will be a good one. As good as it can be with only a hundred mama cows.” Carefully she stepped down from the saddle and looped the reins over the metal fence.

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