The Rancher's Rules by Dina Chapel

Author:Dina Chapel [Chapel, Dina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BH Publishing
Published: 2014-11-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Rafe woke with a start. Something wasn’t right; he could feel it in his gut. And his gut never steered him wrong. He got out of bed, quickly got dressed and grabbed his holster, which he had slung over the headboard. He liked his guns to be in easy reach at all times. He slipped quietly from his room.

Rafe made a quick check of the house; everything looked as he had seen it last night before turning in for the night. He peeked into Annie’s room and saw a lump under the covers – she was fast asleep. He headed for the back door.

Just as he stepped out of the house, he saw it – the chestnut mare streaked across the field moving away from the house and outbuildings, the rider’s poncho and long braid a giveaway that made Rafe start for a second, but only a second.

Rafe raced back inside and went directly to Annie’s room. Bursting through the door, he moved quickly to the bed and ripped the covers back. Damn! She had bunched up some quilts and a pillow under the covers to look like a sleeping form.

When he caught up with her – and he would catch up with her, of that Rafe had no doubt whatsoever – she was gonna be one very sorry little lady, with one very sore behind. Rafe would see to that if it was the very last thing that he did.

He ran to the barn and saddled his horse faster than he ever had in his life. The feelings running through him were confusing him, to say the least. The anger was there, of course. Plenty of anger, aimed directly at one little lady named Annie Walters. She was messin’ with his time and his patience and Rafe was gonna be sure to make her fully aware of how much he didn’t appreciate that. But there was something else too. He was afraid for her. It was fear. Rafe wasn’t too familiar with that feeling; it took him a while to identify it. He didn’t like it one bit.

He had to catch her and make sure that she was safe and then, hopefully, this feeling would go away. If he had to keep her tied to a post at the ranch all day just to make sure that she was safe from now on, that’s what he would do. Right after he spanked her little backside raw, of course.

Rafe woke Zeke to fill him in quickly on what was happening. Depending on where they were when Rafe caught her and how bad the storm was by then, he might not make it back to Tom’s ranch. He would just head for his own instead and he and Annie could ride out the storm there. Zeke was a good man and could be trusted to be in charge of things at Tom’s ranch in Rafe’s absence, so Rafe knew that he needn’t worry on that. Instead, he focused all his worry now on Annie’s safety.

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