Wrangled by Natasha Stories

Author:Natasha Stories [Stories, Natasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
Published: 2014-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

I didn’t know where I’d gone wrong, but from the way Annalee acted when I come back from my first rodeo, it was plain as day that somethin’ was wrong. I asked her to wait in the house for me so she wouldn’t have to hear Uncle Hank tellin’ me I’d better give up on the rodeo, no better’n I’d done. Then Bill came runnin’ up with the news about Abo, and I plumb forgot Annalee was waitin’ for me. After that, seemed like she was gone before I knew it.

As the weeks went on, I sorta got used to not seein’ Annalee, though I’d still get horny right often. I got to thinkin’ maybe I didn’t deserve her, maybe it was just a physical thing after all. Made me kinda miserable, to tell the truth. I wasn’t at the ranch when her little boy got bit. Damn, that was a hard thing to come home to. I thought about goin’ to the hospital, but Hank convinced me she didn’t want to see me no more.

That come home to roost when she come to visit Tali. You’d have thought she was a porkypine, way she acted, all prickly and ‘don’t touch me’. Made me hot under the collar, and when I kissed her anyway, that got me hot all over. I didn’t know which way was up. There was only one thing to do, and that was gather my courage and go talk to Miss Charity about it.

Next day after dinner, I asked if she’d speak to me, and she took me into the library.

“Miss Charity, I’m powerful confused about Annalee. Way she took care of me, I thought she cared about me. But the way she’s actin’ now, it’s like she don’t even know me. Do you know what’s goin’ on?”

“Cody, I don’t know how she feels about you, and I don’t think she does, either. She was hurt when you seemed to forget about her while you were out on the circuit. And you weren’t here when she needed someone, when Al got hurt. But she cared very much for you before. Maybe you can rekindle that, I don’t know.” Miss Charity wasn’t gonna give me anything I could hold onto, looked like.

“It wasn’t my fault I wasn’t here,” I complained.

“No one said it was. But, it was your decision to leave the ranch, and by extension, leave Annalee and the kids alone. I think she’s worried it’ll always be that way.”

“Don’t look like it,” I said glumly. “If I cain’t place higher in the money, I ain’t got a prayer of makin’ a livin’ off rodeoin’.”

“I’m sorry, Cody,” she said quietly. “I know you had big dreams.”

“Still do. Just got to find a different way of makin’ ‘em come true. My biggest dream is to marry Annalee and adopt her kids as mine.”

Miss Charity’s eyes was all shiny when she answered me. “Then I hope you find a way to make that come true. Annalee deserves to be loved and to have a chance at a happy life.

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