Love Finds You in Sundance, Wyoming by Miralee Ferrell

Author:Miralee Ferrell [Ferrell, Miralee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2011-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Angel rode in silence, barely registering James’s prattling voice as he bounced along beside her. She glanced over her shoulder. Travis brought up the rear. Right now the last thing she wanted was conversation with the man. What was riding him, anyway? He’d been rude to Arizona when the cowboy had done nothing to provoke him. Travis’s expression when he poked his head around the stall was—what? Angry? No. More like frustrated. Could he be irritated that someone needed to saddle her horse? She scowled.

“You say something, Miss Angel?” James turned in his saddle and squinted against the sunlight.

Angel straightened and picked up her reins. No sense in allowing the boy to see her exasperation. She turned toward Travis. “Mind if James and I lope the horses a bit?”

“Sure. I’ll mosey along and catch up if you don’t go too far.”

“We’ll stay within sight.” She turned to James and grinned. “No running your horse or racing, but we can let them out a mite, if you want to.”

“Whoopee!” James kicked his buckskin gelding in the sides, and the big animal lunged forward, nearly unseating the boy.

“James!” Travis raised his voice, but the boy didn’t slow Jasper’s pace.

Angel sat for a moment in stunned silence as Travis clucked to his horse, then urged him into a gallop. She leaned forward in her saddle, driving Bella into a fast lope, her gaze trained on James as his mount flew across the level ground, his long stride extending as he gained momentum with each advancing moment.

“Pull your horse in, James.” Travis’s voice thundered across the open prairie.

Angel could see James’s arms extended in front of him; he appeared unwilling to slow Jasper. She urged Bella on and loosened the mare’s reins, letting her have her head. She was sure-footed and steady, having been raised on badlands worse than what she ran across now. Bella veered around a boulder and jumped a shallow wash. Her black mane blew in the wind and tendrils slapped Angel’s face. Puffs of dust from Travis’s horse running just ahead clogged her nostrils.

What was that boy thinking, putting his horse to this kind of pace? From what she’d heard, he wasn’t an experienced horseman. Had the idea of galloping gone to his head, or had the gelding’s response to being booted taken James by surprise? She peered ahead, hoping to see James slowing his foolhardy race, but she was met with disappointment.

The horse that Travis rode was a big-boned, long-limbed bay with four white stockings that flashed as his stride ate up the ground. He’d gotten a headstart, but Bella was gaining. The steady rhythm of hoof-beats filled her ears—no labored breathing and the mare hadn’t so much as broken a sweat. Angel stroked Bella’s neck, satisfaction swelling inside. She winced at the ache running up her arm but pushed it aside.

Travis turned his head for a moment, determination hardening his features, then faced forward and grazed his gelding with his spurs. No words passed between them, but Angel felt the mix of the man’s driving anxiety and anger.

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