Josh by Cheryl Wright

Author:Cheryl Wright [Wright, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Josh was nervous with anticipation. Emily was coming today.

Oh heck, Emily was coming today!

He ran around the house making sure everything was tidy. Had he washed the dishes? Put his smalls in the laundry? Swept the floor?

He forced himself to take a few calming breaths, sitting on a kitchen chair as he did so.

He counted off the jobs he needed to do on his fingers, and realized he’d done them all. Why was he so darned nervous?

Because this was the first time he’d had a woman to the house since Tessa.

He swallowed the huge lump that had suddenly formed in his throat, and took ten slow, deep breaths.

Looking around, he saw her everywhere. All the little touches, like the picture hanging in the entrance. The cushions on the lounge chair. Even the mat outside the back door where she made him wipe his muddy shoes.

They were all down to her.

He couldn’t do it.

He couldn’t bring another woman here. To the house they… built together.

It broke his heart all over again.

But he’d promised Emily, and he didn’t break promises. Especially to women.

He strode purposely outside and pulled on his dark brown intricately carved cowboy boots. The ones Tessa had bought him for Christmas a few months before he’d lost her.

It pulled him up cold.

Ah heck!

It was never going to change. He would always be surrounded by memories of Tessa. He would always be reminded of her no matter where he looked. Not that he wanted to forget her, because he certainly didn’t.

And just like that, out of nowhere, he knew the reason he was feeling like he was. He felt guilty.

Not that he had anything to feel guilty for – he’d been told so repeatedly. And Josh even started to believe it, but now that he was bringing another woman to the house, their house, things were starting to get a big sticky.

He loved this ranch, the place where they’d been so happy. Where they had made so many plans.

There was a sudden cold draft, and he looked to the sky. The sun was trying to peak through, so he needed to make the most of it. He reached through the back door and grabbed his cowboy hat. Then he was on his way to Emily’s house, promising not to think of Tessa again today, if only for Emily’s sake.

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Oh my!

His house was beautiful. Inside and out. It was obvious there had been a woman’s touch at some point. Tessa’s touch no doubt. Or maybe he’d hired an interior decorator?

Emily shook her head. She couldn’t see Josh doing something like that.

She stood on the porch staring out across the huge paddock there. Her eyes moved to the right, and she saw the stables.

“How many horses do you have?” she asked, turning her head in his direction. She could see at least one horse way off in the distance and wondered if it was Brandie. She seemed to have an affiliation with her. But perhaps it was just because of the apples?

She’d brought more along with her today.

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