The Cowboy's Lesson In Love (Forever, Tx. Series Book 19) by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Western & Cowboy Romance, Small Town & Rural Area, Forever Texas Series, Family & Domestic Life, Young Child-Son, Single Father, Animals-Horses & Cattle, Ranch Owner
Publisher: Harlequin Special Edition
Published: 2019-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Wynona realized that she kept watching the classroom doorway. Given tonight’s event, under regular circumstances it would have been normal to look toward the doorway every so often, especially when someone came into the classroom.

But Wynona found herself slanting glances in that direction even when there was no movement in that general area, no indication that someone new was entering the room.

There was a reason for that.

Clint Washburn wasn’t here yet.

Open School Night had gotten underway almost twenty minutes ago and the rancher and his son hadn’t arrived yet.

Had she misjudged the man after all? Had she placed too much faith in the sanctity of his word?

No, he was going to be here, she silently insisted. She just knew it. Washburn really believed in a code, believed in a time when a man’s word actually was his bond, a bond he neither regarded lightly nor broke unless something completely unforeseeable happened.

Had it? she wondered. Had something dire happened that subsequently was responsible for keeping Washburn from accompanying his son to this event?

“Worried?”

Wynona turned around to look at her cousin. Shania had insisted on coming to Open School Night in order to lend a hand in the arrangements as well as to offer her moral support.

Right now Shania was eyeing her knowingly.

“No, it’s going very well,” Wynona responded, nodding around the room at the clusters of milling students. As if united in purpose, the children were almost all tugging on their parents’ hands, leading them from one wall to another as they proudly pointed out their artwork from amid the rest. “Better than I’d hoped, actually,” she confessed.

But Shania saw through her cousin’s act and her blasé attitude. “He’ll be here, Wyn,” she assured Wynona in a low voice.

Wynona didn’t bother to pretend that she didn’t know who her cousin was talking about. A denial would have been childish and dishonest and she had never been anything but honest with her cousin. Ever.

She answered Shania in a tough tone. “He’d better if he knows what’s good for him,” Wynona retorted.

Shania grinned. “Ah, there’s the Wynona Chee that I know and love,” she declared with a laugh. The next moment her smile grew even wider. “And you are living proof that everything always comes to she who waits,” Shania concluded.

Wynona stared at her cousin. “What are you talking about?”

Rather than answer, Shania merely pointed behind her, toward the doorway.

Wynona turned her head to see Ryan entering the classroom, his small fingers wound tightly around his father’s hand as he led the way into the room.

Wynona hardly felt Shania’s pat on her shoulder. The next moment her cousin had made herself scarce, managing to unobtrusively meld into the gathering of parents and children. Leaving her to greet the father and son coming into the classroom.

“You came,” Wynona said, addressing the remark to both Ryan and his father as she greeted them warmly.

“One of the horses got loose,” Ryan said, speaking up. It was obvious that he wanted his teacher to know why they were late.

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