Commitment Ranch by BA Tortuga

Author:BA Tortuga [Tortuga, BA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63477-368-3
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

JESUS Christ, look at the snow.

Ford had every available guy digging out Christmas lights, Geoff was testing out ten thousand things for Thanksgiving, Quartz was building a Ferris wheel or possibly the White House out of blocks, and him?

Stoney was sneaking a cigarette with Angie and Hetty in the tack room.

Stoney watched the snow falling as he took a drag. “Ty won’t make it for Thanksgiving in this shit.”

“Leastways you don’t have guests to worry on, hmm?”

“That’s right.” Of course, no guests meant no money, but they had enough feed put in to last a bit. Ford had some diabolical plan for a party between now and Christmas, and Stoney was just nodding and smiling.

How were people supposed to get out here? Dogsleds?

That would be adorable. All those fancy-assed biggie wows that Ford lunched and dinner-dated with on sleds covered with dog fur and slobber. He’d pay to see that shit.

“What are you grinning about, monkey?” Angie asked.

“Oh, I’m just being an ass. Ford intends to have a big fancy-assed Christmas party up here.”

“You need to grade the road, first.” Hetty shook her head.

“Tell me how with all this snow and I’ll be happy to.” Stoney just wanted to go somewhere warm for a few days. Surely it was nice in Corpus.

“Oh, don’t start. We’re in for a hard winter, and we all know it. Ford will head out of here, and you won’t see him till April, you watch and see.” Angie sounded so sure, but he didn’t know about that.

The man seemed perfectly happy to sit at his computer and work from the office at Ty’s house.

His house. Whatever. Stoney wasn’t sure he’d ever get used to Ty being gone, and God help them all if the snow kept Ty away. Quartz would lose his shit.

“So, fess up.” Hetty kicked his ankle with the toe of her boot. “What the fuck is up with you and the metrosexual?”

“Up?”

“You know. What’s the story? The whole story.”

Stoney snorted. “It’s a short story.”

Hetty kicked him again, and Stoney sighed. “We were a thing in college. I went for a semester and a half. UNM. It was a fucking disaster, you know? I sucked at it, and Ford? Shit, he didn’t. We came here on spring break, and I did some cowboy work for Ty and got myself a job. I went back and packed my shit and came to work. Ford was pissed.”

“So you broke up with him?” Angie asked. “Did you tell him why?”

“I told him I got a job up here. I didn’t tell him about failing out.” That had been too much to bear, to admit he just wasn’t good enough to do it.

“Oh man, no wonder he was pissy.” Hetty grinned hugely. “You know how emotional gay guys get.”

“Uh-huh. Because you giant dykes all wear white panties and ugly shoes while you grunt lullabies to your kids.”

He could give as good as he got.

“My panties are plaid,” Angie deadpanned.

“So why the fistfight in the yard?” Hetty was relentless once she smelled answers on the wind.

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