The Lonely Rancher's Unexpected Reunion: A Western Historical Romance Book by Hannah Lee Davis

Author:Hannah Lee Davis [Davis, Hannah Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rubedia
Published: 2024-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

3rd October 1888

Barstow, California

Abraham offered Della his hand as she jumped up into the coach. She looked at it and then at him.

“I could do this on my own,” she said.

“I don’t doubt that,” Abe replied. “But the doctor literally just told you to rest. So, you’ll rest.”

“Surely, the resting can wait until I get home?” she said as Abe jumped up into the coach.

“If you don’t listen to the doctor, you’re not going to get any better,” Abe sighed.

“I’m fine!”

Abe raised one eyebrow and sat in the seat opposite Della. “You’ve had head pain every single day since the accident.”

“Maybe it’s unrelated,” she said with a shrug.

“You’re acting like a child, Della,” Abe said with a small laugh. “Rest isn’t the end of the world.”

“But I don’t want to rest, I want to figure out wh—”

“Yes, I know,” Abe said. “And we will figure it out, but not if you can’t move without your head pounding.”

Della huffed in response and sunk into her seat.

“You’ll be better soon, You heard what the doctor said,” he reminded her.

“I’m just fed up with waiting.” Della reached into her bag and pulled out the silver spur she’d found at her parents’. She’d not let it out of her sight since finding it.

Abe watched as she flipped the thing over in her hands and stroked the flat silver surface with the pad of her thumb. After a while, she moved it and began to run it up and down her index fingers. From where Abe was sitting, he could see the sharp points making tiny indents on her fingers. Watching her, he saw how the focus took hold of her face in the shape of furrowed brows and a chewed lower lip.

The look took him back to when they were children. She’d pull the same face when she was coming up with an end to a story. It was one of the things he’d found the most interesting about her, and one of the first times he realized he loved her, she was pulling that exact face.

Sat watching her, in the coach, he couldn’t help but feel a warmth inside his chest. It had become more and more evident, the longer he spent around her, that those feelings he’d developed as a child had gone nowhere.

He’d debated telling her.

Even then, as she rolled the spur up and down her skin, he considered coming clean—but it just didn’t feel right. She was injured, and while things were better now, it hadn’t been long since they were both constantly arguing.

If he were going to tell her that, after all these years, he was in love with her, he was going to get it right, and that meant waiting.

Instead of telling her, he decided he’d keep trying to show her. He wanted to be there for her. He’d taken the morning off work to take her to the doctor’s, he’d listened to all of her theories about her parents, and he’d been making sure he sat

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