Love me ... Again by Beazer Delka

Author:Beazer, Delka [Beazer, Delka]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-03T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter nine

Beep! Beep!

I bolt from his warm chest and squint through the darkness for the source of the sound.

He chuckles, skims my cheek with the back of his hard knuckles, “relax, it’s my phone.” Without dislodging me, he reaches over and rummages in the damp clothing he’d tossed aside, he pulls the phone out.

A quick tap, “Yes?”

“Colt!” Jett’s voice burst through and it’s hoarse with fear. I stiffen, his voice alone is enough to condemn me, Jett rushes on, “where the hell are you man?”

The fear in Jett’s voice conveys itself to Colt, whose body stiffens beneath me. Hastily I get off of Colt’s lap, avoid his eyes which follow me as I reach for my clothes.

Colt lunges to his feet a second later, his broad, naked back faces me as he takes Jett off of speaker phone and puts it to his ear.

Seconds later he turns back and snatches up his clothes from the ground, he looks off into the distant, dark sky, “We’ve got to go now!” he says curtly and runs to his horse.

I open my mouth to ask what’s the matter but swiftly decide against it. Unease churns in my stomach.

We mount, I turn to him, worry eating at me, “what’s happened?”

His face is white, bleached of all color, his eyes are pained as guilt bears down on him, “fire … lightning caused it,” he growls impatiently, he swings away from me as if he cannot look at me anymore. I gulp, fresh humiliation rushes through me. But I stiffen my back as I follow him out of the meadow and down the mountain side.

The ride back is bone jarring. Colt lies flat above his horse as he urges the animal to reckless speed.

Grimly, I set my teeth and fight to keep pace with him.

He looks back at me only once, “Are you okay?” he shouts above the thunder of the horse’s hooves, I jerk my chin as I fight to keep pace with him.

Dawn is tinting the sky as we make it back to the camp. But … it isn’t really dawn that’s solely responsible.

As I gaze closer at the blush colored sky, horror sinks into me. Tongues of flame are licking upwards from between the trees all around the mountain side. Their magnetic iridescence radiates off the dark gray clouds which linger above and fly outwards with savage grace. As I watch, sparks of flames soar higher and higher down into the valley where the cattle are doing their clumsy best to dodge the painful missiles. Under their feet, wet burning grass is sending up plumes of pungent smoke causing further confusion.

As I gape two groups of cattle dart off, running right towards the fiery mountain.

Colt pulls his horse up sharply beside me, he pauses, reaches over and grasp my reins, “Come with me,” his eyes are hard.

I look beyond his shoulder and see Jett, Michael, Marjorie and the ranch hands thick in the midst of the stampeding cattle, spurring their horses forward, desperately trying to get the cattle to turn back.

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