Country Storm by Cheyenne McCray

Author:Cheyenne McCray [McCray, Cheyenne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-939778-14-7
Publisher: Cheyenne McCray LLC

Chapter 10

Rae drove her car across the cattle guard and onto Black Bear Ranch.

Due to Bear’s schedule and Rae’s, they’d had to postpone their riding date for another couple of weeks, so today was finally the day.

The original date they were supposed to go, he’d had an emergency with a mare on a neighboring horse ranch. Rae had been disappointed, but during the prior days, Bear had come in each night she worked at the bar, and she’d gone out to a late lunch with him on Saturday, before she’d had to go into work.

Over the next two weeks, Bear and Rae gone out to dinner at local restaurants, including Ricardo’s. Bear came over to Marlee’s for dinner one night, which had been fun. In between glasses of wine for Rae and Marlee, and a Guinness for Bear, her cousin and Bear told stories about their school years and had Rae in giggles throughout the night.

He continued to come into Mickey’s on the nights she worked. She knew her face lit up every time he walked through the doors and his expression seemed to do the same.

She didn’t get a lot of time to spend with him while she worked, but they talked every break and he always waited for her after she got off work.

Every moment spent with Bear was uplifting. Rae had never felt like this in her entire life. He was such a good man and everything about him made her want to spend as much time with him as she could.

Sometimes what was bad in her world would intrude and she’d have to force it away with everything she had. The trial date was creeping closer, and with it a sense of dread.

But not today. She wouldn’t allow anything to ruin her time with Bear. Now she would have a full day with him, just the two of them.

Bear walked out of the house as she parked and hugged her and gave her a big kiss when she got out. They headed inside the house and she greeted Mervin, Katie, and Maggie. Bear let Arthur out of the kennel and the dog wiggled with excitement despite his injuries.

Rae rubbed the dog behind his ears. “Look at you. You’ll be running the range before we know it.” She glanced at Bear before turning back to Arthur. “Providing you know how to behave yourself on a ranch.”

Bear nodded. “He’s a smart dog and I have a good feeling about him. I think he’ll learn just fine.”

“Can he go with us today?” she asked.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea just yet,” Bear said. “His injuries haven’t fully healed, and we’ll be going out a ways from home. I also haven’t seen if he’ll behave around the horses, so that’s always a concern.”

“That makes sense,” she said.

“Ready?” he asked.

She smiled. “Am I ever.”

“My sister, Leann, left a hat here that you can use.” Bear grabbed the straw western hat for her and pulled his own low on his brow.

“She won’t mind?” Rae as she plopped Leann’s hat on her head and adjusted it.

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