The Cowboy Says I Do by Sinclair Jayne

Author:Sinclair Jayne [Jayne, Sinclair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781954894129
Publisher: Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2021-04-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“You going to chase her?”

The question from last night still rang in his memory and mocked him.

Heck yeah, he was going to chase her. But all he seemed to be doing lately was standing still, even as he kept himself busier than usual at the ranch. He’d spent all of Tuesday checking and repairing fencing with Cade Osterfeld, a ranch hand who’d worked and lived on the ranch for more than a decade. Cade was quiet, and Beck had appreciated the quiet to think and plan.

He’d also—for the first time he could remember—wanted to be away from his cousins.

If he had to listen to Bodhi’s offers of seduction tips or Ashni sightings like the one where Bodhi had seen her sitting in the sun, face tilted to the sky, sipping a hot chocolate from Sage’s Copper Mountain Chocolate Shop, Bodhi was going to end up with a black eye or a hole in his beautiful, lady-killer smile.

“You’re ceding the field,” Bodhi had said. “Giving Ash too much lead.”

Meanwhile, Bodhi and Bowen seemed to be neck and neck in their Rodeo Bride Game. Bodhi had brought Nico to the ranch for a picnic lunch and horse ride, and Bowen had done the same with Langston. Beck had worked until long after sundown with the moms’ list of directions that he had carried out without complaint.

Bowen, his mom, and Langston had started decorating the barn now that it had been emptied, repaired and repainted. Bodhi and Nico had concentrated on cleaning and fixing up the log cabin on Plum Hill. Beck felt more like a landscaper than a cowboy this week as he worked with the hired crew landscaping around the main house and helping with some upgrades inside including refinishing the floors. The house, the yard and Plum Hill and North Vista barn had never looked more beautiful, but it just made him feel more and more like he was standing on quicksand. Usually it would have been he and Ash working side by side preparing for the Bash. His mom had shrugged off Ash’s absence, hands on her skinny hips.

“Good for her,” his mom had said when her sister Genevieve had finally asked about Ashni. “Girl finally found some sense. She’s been following you around like a puppy since you were both kids. She always was far too talented and smart to live her life through you, staring at the ribbons of road like the brokenhearted star of a mournful country song.” Beck’s mom had always spoken her mind in great detail. “Ashni was intending to go to medical school. Instead she became your professional girlfriend.”

Beck had been appalled. Ash was so much more than a girlfriend. She’d decided against medical school years ago.

Because you’d be separated too much.

But she’d accomplished so much for the tour’s marketing department. She’d created many community outreach programs and had built up the social media presence exponentially. She’d been full of ideas and had loved it.

Until she hadn’t.

It had been like this for three days.

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