The Wrong Cowboy by Sasha Summers

Author:Sasha Summers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-10-14T15:03:58+00:00

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TWO WEEKS HAD gone by since he’d unloaded the little paint into the barn and Samantha still had no idea she had a horse. He’d tried, time and again, to get her to help him organize the tack room or go for a ride with him on the tractor—but she seemed to sense there was more to it than that and didn’t budge.

His father did not approve of Jensen’s tactics, glaring and grumbling soft enough that his words were unintelligible but loud enough for everyone to hear he was unhappy. Other than the grumbling and glaring, his father wasn’t talking to him. Not one word. Even at the dinner table, his father would ask Twyla or Kitty to relay things to him. Like a ten-year-old.

Samantha didn’t know what to make of it. She’d tried to get her Paw-Paw to be nice, but Jensen worried his father was so bent out of shape he might snap at her. That wouldn’t do. The idea of Samantha growing up and pulling this sort of thing to get what she wanted also wouldn’t do. Like it or not, he was going to have to offer up some sort of explanation for his father’s behavior—without being a disrespecting son.

After agonizing over just the right thing to say, he decided short and sweet was the best bet. Samantha had listened as he’d explained that Paw-Paw was out of sorts because he and Jensen hadn’t seen eye to eye on something but that, in time, Paw-Paw would get back to normal.

“I hope so, Daddy. Malcolm, in my class, makes faces and grumbles like that and he’s always in trouble. He has to sit right by the teacher’s desk and never gets special classroom jobs.” Samantha sighed. “Mrs. Wilkes says he causes aches in her head with his...attics.”

“Antics?” Jensen had to grin at that.

“That.” Samantha had nodded gravely. “I don’t want Paw-Paw to give people aches.”

“Me, neither, little miss. Me, neither.” Jensen had given her a quick hug and hoped that would be the end of it.

That had been ten days ago.

“Are you taking her to Junior Rangers tonight?” Kitty asked, rinsing off the night’s dinner dishes as Jensen handed them to her.

“Planned on it.” He handed her the last plate and carried a rag to the large wooden kitchen table. “I was thinking... I’d be happy to go.” Kitty put a dish into the dishwasher and looked his way. “I loved Junior Rangers and I wouldn’t mind having some time with Samantha.”

“I’m sure she’d like that, too.” He started wiping down the table. If he were being honest, the last thing he wanted to do was go spend a couple of hours with a bunch of five- and six-year-olds but... “But getting out of the house might be good, too.” He swept the crumbs from Twyla’s fresh-baked rolls into his hand.

“Did you know there are other places to go in Garrison, Jensen?” She gave him an innocent grin. “There’s a restaurant or two. A coffee shop and book shop.

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