The Trouble with Love: A Small Town Grumpy Cowboy Romance (The Trouble with Cowboys Book 1) by Kali Hart

Author:Kali Hart [Hart, Kali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-12T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Macy

“Ryder Stone is a colossal asshat!” I announce to the pen of goats I agreed to monitor for a short while after their shots so Paps could get in his mid-morning nap. Mostly, he was worried about Gertie’s reaction since she’s the youngest of the crew and we aren’t entirely certain if she’s had any vaccinations or not. She was a little cranky with me at first, but she’s warmed up to trying to eat my boot again.

The cute little terrorist looks at me and bleeeats.

“I’m not encouraging you to escape and eat his cowboy hat today, but I’m not exactly going to stop you either,” I say to Gertie as I gather my things and check my phone once more. Another missed call from Ryder makes me want to feed the device to the goats. Or better yet, put the damn thing through a wood chipper.

“Can you believe he wants to sell the ranch?” All four goats look at me. “I know, right? It’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard! What an ass.”

My heart pounds violently in my chest as I slip out of the goat pen, careful to latch the gate despite the temptation to let Gertie accidentally get by me just so Ryder has to chase her down again. The anger simmering inside me is the only thing keeping me from breaking down and crying. Because there is no way in hell I can process this ranch no longer existing. It’s been a staple not only in my life, but for this town. Where will the misfit animals go if they can’t come here? And how can I help any of them if I’m all the way back in Colorado?

“I can’t believe I almost slept with him,” I grumble, marching my way toward the barn.

Because I haven’t been able to reach Nadia or Everleigh this morning, I settle for violently scrubbing my hands and arms free of goat slobber in the barn’s washroom. Despite the epic party that happened last night, there are almost no traces of it inside the main barn. Only a few folded-up tables remain, waiting for pick up. Which means the wonderful townspeople helped clean up without even being asked. Had I not been so livid after overhearing Ryder’s family meeting conversation, I would’ve stayed to help, too. But I had to leave before I did something I couldn’t take back.

“Avoiding me, sweetheart?”

I stiffen, anger rising from simmering to boiling in half a second flat at Ryder’s smug tone. “I hate you.”

“No, you don’t,” he says, strutting into the room and coming up behind me. I hate that my entire body reacts to the wave of heat emitting from him. I hate even more that my instinct is to step back the two inches he’s left between us and press my back against his chest. Maybe hate sex could be fun? Shut up, Evil Macy. You’re not in charge today.

“How could you possibly think selling this place was any kind of solution?”

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