Love Is a Dance by Emma Woods

Author:Emma Woods [Woods, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2020-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

10

Miraculously, Heather had found someone to watch Abby and Jake by the next morning. When I arrived at the ranch, I was surprised to see her enthroned at the reception desk with an absurd headset on, as though the volume of phone calls she expected to receive warranted such advanced technology.

“Good morning, Rosemarie,” she chirped.

“Morning, Heather. I take it the babysitter arrived as planned.” I took a bracing sip of coffee from my travel mug.

“She was even ten minutes early. So, I’m going to cover the front desk. Luke got a call from Rusty in the stables. His sister has cancer and he’s headed to Arizona to spend some time with her. We were hoping you could fill in for him.”

After making this announcement disguised as a request, Heather flashed me a cute smile and turned her attention to her email, not waiting to see if I had an opinion about this assignment.

Normally I wouldn’t have cared. In fact, I probably would have welcomed the change from the front desk. However, working in the stables meant that I wouldn’t be sharing an office space with Ty. It meant I’d be sweaty and smelly in no time. In short, it was a disappointment.

Ty sailed in the door just about then and stopped short when he saw Heather behind the desk. The phone rang, and she tapped something on the phone’s base before putting on her most refined voice and answering, “Good morning, Triple Star Ranch. This is Heather. How may I help you?”

Ty leaned over and whispered, “I take it you’re not going to be in the office today.”

“Nope. I’ll be in the stables today.” I sipped nonchalantly from my cup while carefully analyzing his reaction.

It was most certainly disappointment that flashed across his face, I was pleased to see. “I’ll miss hanging out with you all day. Any chance we can still do lunch?”

I downgraded my beaming smile to friendly grin and shrugged my shoulders. “Maybe. It depends on when they let me take my break.”

“Well, I’ll be in there between noon and one. I hope to see you at least for a little while.” He bumped me with his shoulder, and I felt my face flush.

“You and Matt are still coming for supper tonight, right?”

“Yes. We are definitely on for tonight.”

I bumped his shoulder back. “Good. If lunch doesn’t work out, I’ll see you around six for supper.”

And then, as though it didn’t matter at all, I turned and strode out of the office. All the way to the stables I congratulated myself for my casual exit. The last thing I wanted was for Ty to realize just how nuts I was about him.

“Hey, Rosie! Are you working here today?” called Butch.

Butch was over six feet tall and solid as a brick wall. He was quick to laugh and one of my father’s best friends. He’d cared for the horses at the ranch for as long as I could remember. In many ways, Butch was like a second father to me.

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