Spring's Delight by Kathleen Ball

Author:Kathleen Ball [Ball, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lasso Springs Publishing
Published: 2015-09-30T05:00:00+00:00

Heavy Duty always enjoyed being brushed down. It’d been two days since Spring returned. Colt shook his head. “You know boy, there is no figuring the mind of a female.”

Heavy Duty snorted. Even the horse knew what he meant. He didn’t know how to act in his own house anymore. If he tiptoed, she frowned, if he was polite, she frowned, if he said something nice, she really frowned. “First, she leaves because I’m too controlling and now she hates that I’m nice. You know if it was any other female, I’d just call it a day. Never found one I wanted to go the extra mile for. I’m not saying I love her or anything, Heavy Duty, I don’t think I have those feelings inside me. I just like having her around is all.”

“Talking to yourself, Boss?” Bibbs asked as he entered the barn.

“Guilty.”

“Well, Spring is not happy with you. Something about you not leaving your socks on the floor anymore. I don’t understand women.”

Colt’s laugh started low in his chest and rumbled out deeply. “Me neither, Bibbs. I can’t seem to win. If I’m too nice she’s in a snit, if I’m quiet she frowns, and I’m not sure what she wants. I even offered to take her to Autumn’s restaurant for dinner, and you would have thought I’d committed a crime. Now the whole sock thing has me thinking she’s a bit touched in the head.”

Bibbs laughed, then his eyes widened, and he abruptly stopped laughing. Colt turned around, and there stood Spring with her hands on her hips, glaring at him.

“See you later, Boss,” Bibbs said as he skedaddled.

“I’d ask if you were here to see me but I know better. Both Heidi and Daybreak would probably like a visit from you.” He went back to grooming his horse. It was so quiet he glanced in her direction and there she still stood in the doorway. “Was there something you needed?”

“You are infuriating, do you know that, Colt O’Malley? If I was a person of violence I’d crack you in the head with a skillet or something.”

His brow furrowed. “I’ve been doing everything I can to be nice and not upset you.”

“I know, and that’s the problem, you’ve been too stinking nice. I’m not a flower that will wilt. I come from a tough background, and I know a snow job when I see it. Just cut it out.”

“Too stinking nice?” He threw back his head and laughed. “Hell, I thought you left because I was mean.”

She kept her gaze on the ground and shuffled her feet back and forth before answering. “I like you for you. I don’t like the mean Colt but I don’t like the sugary sweet, everything is fine, Colt either.”

“I guess I don’t know what you want.” He led Heavy Duty to his stall and closed the door behind the horse. “Maybe you could explain it to me?”

“I mean I want you to be happy, but I know you’re not. You’re still grieving, and I don’t want you to be anything you’re not around me.

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