Wed to the Montana Cowboy by Carol Arens

Author:Carol Arens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Lantree sat beside Rebecca’s bed, holding her injured foot in his lap and examining it while she slept.

Sleep was what they all needed right then. No one had gotten a wink of it since yesterday afternoon when they discovered that Rebecca was missing.

It had been an hour before dawn when he brought her home, then near dark when they finally pieced together what had happened. That had been twelve hours with everyone worried to the bone.

The bald truth was that she had behaved in a foolhardy manner, but he could not fault her for wanting to visit the family resting place.

He should have volunteered to take her. The blame for her condition lay partly on him.

It would be a long time before he forgot how he’d found her...shivering, bloody and wedged into that muddy hole in the ground. If it hadn’t been for a sideways glance, he would never have noticed the yellow dress strewn over the rock beside the stream. He would have passed by, leaving her to die of exposure more likely than not.

As it was, she had been delirious for the better part of an hour on the ride home. He’d wrapped her up in the blanket he kept on his saddle and held her in front of him, stoking her arms and her back to warm her.

The situation had been dire, but now that she was safe in bed, cleaned up and dozing soundly, he couldn’t help but smile.

Rebecca Lane, in her delirium, had been complimentary...of him in particular.

He’d discovered that she especially liked his hands because, and she had declared this with certainty, they were big and bold, but also gentle...and very warm. His former fiancée, being a petite woman and delicate to her core, had always been apprehensive about his hands. He’d never given her reason to be but now, thinking back, she’d been apprehensive about many things.

Another thing he had discovered was that Rebecca liked being able to look up at him...he was, again in her words, “A gigantic and pleasing example of manhood.”

No doubt if he teased her about it now, she would deny everything that she had said. She would because she would not remember it.

She had also been confident in his ability to care for her injuries. Her trust had ignited something inside of him. Given him a glimmer of confidence he thought had died.

“What do you think?” Hershal asked from where he had been sitting silent vigil in a chair on the other side of the bed.

Drawn back to the task at hand, he studied Rebecca’s long, shapely foot.

“The cut is deep,” he admitted. “I’ll need to make some sutures.”

“Will the pain wake her up?”

“I reckon we’ll see.” He reached for the clean needle.

He took the first stitch. The process came back to him as though he had done it only yesterday.

“I take to heart every word of the story she told us.” Hershal shook his head, his gray brows narrowed to an exclamation point. His anger was obvious.

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