What A Texas Girl Needs by Kristina Knight

Author:Kristina Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary
Publisher: Crimson Romance, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2012-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

A full week passed with no contact between Vanessa and Mat. It was exactly what she expected. Exactly what she wanted, she insisted to herself as she peeked from behind the Pepto-pink curtain in her bedroom toward the barns. Ignored the empty feeling when she didn’t see Mat walking around. She rubbed her belly.

“We’ll be fine,” she said, “just fine.”

Kathleen led Big Boy from the horse barn and another trainer followed them into the therapy pool to begin a rehabilitation treatment. No one else exited. A few horses milled around one paddock, black cattle wandered the pastures to the north. Vanessa took a saltine from the plate on the table and nibbled, hoping to rid herself of the nausea that threatened each morning.

The bull pens had been set up early in the week. The website and sale flyers were ready. Mat assigned one of the hands to drive her to the pens for the sale pictures, one more sign he had nothing to say to her. The thought left a hollow feeling in her chest. Grandfather mentioned the night before that Mat would be going to the pens for final check-ups with the vet. No activity from the barn meant he had to be gone already. The grandfather clock in the entryway chimed ten times. He should definitely be away from the barns by now.

Her phone bleeped, alerting her to an incoming email. Vanessa read the message from her real estate agent. The house was listed and several interested parties had called to take a look. With any luck, the monstrosity of a house would be out of her hair by the time the stock sale was over. She could get on with her life. Time to send another email, this time to Paul. As Vanessa typed the words, calmness filled her. No restless energy. No nervousness about selling. Just calm certainty that getting out of San Antonio was the best decision she’d made since deciding to keep the baby.

Paul, final warning. Selling the house and contents. If you want anything, tell me now or lose it forever. Vanessa.

Simple. To the point. Like he’d told her he wanted a divorce: I met someone else, here’s a pile of money, I’ll take your friends. Okay, he hadn’t actually said those words, but the intent was there. She pushed the send button and tossed the phone back on the writing desk in her room. Vanessa waited a moment longer and then grabbed her camera and headed for the office in the barn. Might as well get started on that new life because the sooner the website was live, the sooner buyers would call, filling her days with something more to do than wonder where Mat might be.

A few hours later Vanessa looked away from the computer screen, stretched, and rubbed her eyes. All except five bulls’ pedigree information had been added to their images and descriptions. It was like filling out a weird online dating form, Vanessa decided.

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