Finally Found My Cowboy by A.J. Pine

Author:A.J. Pine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks

Four hours and three salted caramel white chocolate mochas later (Eli needed the caffeine), Eli had silently knit the ugliest, most lopsided…what? He couldn’t even call it a scarf because that would be insulting to scarves. But he’d made something. He’d kept his hands busy, his brain focused on his busy hands, and his ears trained on the conversation going on around him.

Kara was suddenly doing what Boone called reverse cycling, which meant she slept all day and was up all night. He and Casey had been trying to get her back on track for the past week and were both exhausted.

“You should talk to Charlotte about that at your next visit,” Ben told him, referring to his pediatrician wife. “I swear I’ve heard her talk about that happening with other patients. I bet she has a trick or two she might be able to share.”

Carter and his wife, Ivy, had been working on her birthing plan. She had the whole delivery planned out exactly how she wanted it to go, and Carter couldn’t bring himself to tell her how many babies he or someone else from his company at the fire station had delivered in barns or on the side of the road in the back of a truck for parents whose offspring decided they didn’t give a shit about their plans.

“I sure as hell hope Delaney didn’t plan to grab my hand with hulk-like strength and growl during a contraction, ‘You did this to me,’” Sam joked, but Eli was pretty sure he saw a glimmer of relived fear in the man’s eyes.

They all talked like that on and off, periods of verbose conversation followed by stretches of quiet contemplation, all the while the five of them enjoying the journey despite the result of their yarn and needles when all was said and done.

Everyone else had filed out in the last half hour or so, leaving just Eli, Boone, and a few actual paying customers in the café.

“It grows on you, doesn’t it?” Boone asked, and Eli realized he was still concentrating on his needles, his brows furrowed.

“Not exactly,” he replied. “I just feel like…I mean, I perform surgeries on everything from rabbits to Great Danes on a weekly basis. Shouldn’t I be better at this than the rest of you a-holes?”

Boone laughed. He reached across the table and grabbed Eli’s needles, forcing him to look up.

“It grows on you,” Eli’s brother repeated. “Coming out of hiding for a bit… Am I right?”

Eli sighed. “I guess you know a little about that, huh?” Sometimes Eli forgot that before Boone and Casey reconciled, they’d been estranged since they graduated high school. And that estrangement had cut Boone Murphy off from much of the town, so much so that he once tried to leave it.

“Look,” Boone said. “You don’t ever have to do this again. I thought it was just as batshit before I understood it.”

Eli brought his coffee cup to his lips and tilted his head back, actual disappointment rushing through him when he realized it was empty.

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