The Rebel and the Cowboy by Sarah Mayberry

Author:Sarah Mayberry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781950510290
Publisher: Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2019-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Two days later, Casey scrubbed his face and pushed the laptop away from him on the kitchen table.

He’d just spent three hours poring over their bookkeeping software, juggling expenses as much as he could, but there was only so much he could rob from Peter to pay Paul. Until they sold some stock, things were going to be tight. And since they didn’t plan to go to market until later in the year, something had to give.

He needed to talk to his siblings. When Jed had come clean about the trouble the ranch was facing last September, they’d learned he’d been forgoing wages for himself in order to ensure the ranch remained viable. They’d all agreed that that kind of shit was not going to happen again, and they’d all tipped their personal savings into the pot to help ease the situation. Two bad seasons and a run of shitty luck meant that it had barely touched the sides of their problems, though. And now Casey had more bad news to deliver.

Delaying the inevitable wasn’t going to make it any easier, so he stood and went in search of his sister. He found her behind the house in the veggie patch their mother had established twenty years ago, pulling weeds and straightening stakes.

“Sierra. You got a minute?” he asked.

She shaded her eyes with a gloved hand. “A real minute or is that just a clever ruse to lure me inside?”

“Definitely the second option,” he said, and she must have heard the heaviness in his voice because she stood and brushed the dirt off her knees.

She followed him inside and was at his side when he knocked briefly on the study door and pushed it open. They both paused on the threshold at the sight of Jed fumbling hastily with the mouse, quickly closing down a window on the computer screen. Casey only caught a glimpse, but it was enough to tell him what his brother had been doing: Facebook stalking his former girlfriend, Mae Berringer.

Mae had been Jed’s girlfriend in senior year at Marietta High, and they’d shared an apartment together for two years when they both went to college at Montana State. Then life as the Carmodys knew it had imploded when their parents died, and everything had gone to hell. Jed had dropped out of college to come home and take over the ranch and look after the rest of them, and Mae had been left behind.

Or something like that. Casey had never really been clear on just what had happened between his brother and the woman he loved, he simply knew that Jed hadn’t really looked twice at another woman since.

There was a small silence before Jed cleared his throat.

“What’s up?”

“Why don’t you just call her?” Sierra asked, bull at the gate as always.

“What are you talking about?” Jed asked, his cheeks turning a giveaway pink.

“She’s talking about Mae. If you’re still hung up on her, why don’t you just message her?” Casey said.

Generally, his policy

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