Junction City Cowboy by Jet MacLeod

Author:Jet MacLeod [MacLeod, Jet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-12-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Reece, sometime later

I locked myself in my rooms for hours. I kept thinking about how wonderful she felt in my arms. I couldn’t get the image out of my head. It was possessing me. I couldn’t think of anything else. It was driving me mad. I had to find a way to get over it.

I had taken to avoiding Miss Rayne at all costs. I know that I had hurt her in the way that I left her, but to my amazement she didn’t send Juan or Jed after me. I was thankful for that, but somewhere deep inside, I hope they would say something to me. It was a dark thought, but I figured that a good lecture from one of them would set me right. The only problem was I didn’t get one.

Rayne wasn’t helping either. She had found her ammunition. Herself, she would use it against me any way that she could. In her mind, it was the only way to keep me on that ranch. If I was in love with her, then I couldn’t leave her. She didn’t understand because she didn’t know. It was because I loved her that I had to leave. She was trying to find a way to get me alone at every possible chance that she could. She wasn’t helping the already delicate issue.

What was I going to do? What could I tell her? What was I still doing in Junction City? Why couldn’t I just leave? What was holding me back?

Too many questions plagued me. I couldn’t think straight for thinking of her. I had to do something. I had to, or I would go crazy. The problem was I didn’t know what to do.

I decided to go for a ride. I would ride and clear my head. It was the only thing that I could think of that would help me think clearly about the whole situation. I had to come to a resolution and soon.

I saddled up Scout and headed out into the pastures. I didn’t rein him in any direction. I let him steer. I was going to let him dictate our course today. I would let him do the thinking for me. It was the only thing I could do. I tied the reins around the saddle horn and let go.

I wanted to scream. I wanted to rant. I wanted Rayne. I shook my head. I knew it was going to be a long day. I wished somewhere in the back of my head that it was all a dream and I could just wake up and it would be over. I tried, it didn’t work.

“What am I going to do?” I asked out loud.

I don’t know who I expected to answer. I guess I was hoping for divine intervention. Maybe, God could stop this madness. Maybe, I was just crazy. Maybe, I wasn’t.

Scout came to a stop at an overlook. There were no mountains here. There was a small stream running though the prairie grasses into a small pool that the cattle drank from.

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