The Rescue: A Valentine's Novella by Twyla Turner

Author:Twyla Turner [Turner, Twyla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-08T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

“So, you mentioned last night that your parents kept you from getting what you truly wanted. What did you mean by that?” Val asked Bo curiously across the kitchen table that afternoon.

They’d just gotten in from checking on his longhorns out in the fields and the road conditions. Val had noticed that Bo had been moody until they saw that the flood waters hadn’t receded nearly enough for her to find a way home. After that, he’d relaxed completely and had smiled at her in the late morning sunshine.

If Val was being honest with herself, she’d admit that she too was glad she had one or two more days with the big man with an even bigger heart.

She had already called her boss, Mark and her insurance company earlier that morning, before their ride across his property. To which, Mark apologized profusely for making her drive out to Houston. Now that everything was taken care of, they were back inside and had warmed up with leftover stew. The sun had come out, but it was still a chilly February day. And along with the sun, Val’s curiosity for the man she was quickly falling for had come out too.

Bo stopped eating and gave her a thoughtful look.

“Well, my first love… My first everything, Charlene, who by the way, was a lot like you in many ways. Coloring, figure, and warm personality.” Bo began with a faraway look in his eyes.

“She was black?” Val asked unable to hide the surprise in her voice.

She’d stereotyped him negatively before he’d even stepped foot out of his truck last night. Never in a million years would she have guessed that he dated black women before.

That’s what you get for assuming.

“Yeah. We’d known each other since grade school. I swear, we were in all the same classes every year all the way through high school. I mean, I reckon that’s not too hard considering our schools weren’t that big, but still. It was torture, too, because I had a crush on her from day one.” Bo grinned, remembering his younger years.

“It wasn’t until the first day of senior year that we finally started dating. She came up to my locker at the end of the first day and politely said to me, ‘Are you gonna finally ask me out this year before I go away to college? Or are you just gonna stare at me from across the room all year?’” Bo chuckled. “I guess she was tired of waiting on me. I awkwardly asked her out right then and there, and we were nearly inseparable that whole year. My parents didn’t find out about us until that summer after graduation. We’d kept it hidden because I had a feeling how they’d react. And sure enough, they were not pleased.

“They threatened to not pass the ranch down to me. And this place was my whole life. I never wanted to be anything else but a rancher, like my Pop and his before him.” Bo sighed heavily.

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