Page 12 of Silver Treasure
Hell, I couldn’t remember when I had even enjoyed myself so much.
Also, the moment I had placed my hand at the small of her back in the general store I noticed that the majority of the red hat society had been in attendance.
Yet I didn’t mind if this particular rumor hit the mill.
I wanted them all to know that she was taken, that she was mine.
I would have to talk to her to make sure that she was on the same page as I was. That would take time of course, but when I became determined about something, I set about achieving it.
She was mine. But by all that was holy, I would be hers too.
I had called ahead to the ranch while I had loaded the bags into the back of my truck.
“Yeah, boss?” Parker answered on the second ring.
“Got two of them. One of them is of the highest order and she can go into my personal selection. The other one is the one you recommended.” When I had the last of the bags stowed, I climbed up into my truck.
“Thanks, Boss.” I could hear the smile on the foreman’s face through the speaker.
With that, I let out a soft chuckle and hung up the phone. That gelding I had just purchased was going to be getting spoiled for the rest of his days.
And, yes you guessed it, she had also tried to pay for the food in the general store.
Not only that, but we had stopped to grab some fuel. She had also tried to help pay for the fuel as well.
Never have I ever met anyone that was as honest and as forthright as she was.
I was hooked, lined, and caught.
The moment we made it back to the ranch I spotted Rick, one of the hired hands, and called him over.
“Take the bags in the back of the truck and put them in the big house. Put the cold stuff in the fridge, you can leave the rest of the things out on the counter.” With a nod from Rick, which I didn’t like because all though he nodded at me, the entire time he had his eyes on Corrine.
Before I could snap at Rick, I heard Corrine’s soft sing-song voice as she spoke quietly to Stormy.
Corrine’s steady voice sounded true, “You ready girl?” Stormy had even whinnied her response.
Parker lifted the latches on the back of the twenty-three-foot trailer.
However, when Parker had first walked into the trailer to get the horses, he had turned and high-tailed it out of there.
“Stormy.” Corrine softly ticked at the mare for being ill-tempered.
“You are going to be staying here. You have to make friends.” Corrine didn’t even hesitate, she untied Stormy’s lead rope andpulled her from the trailer with no fuss from Stormy. Just like they hadn’t seen one another just a minute ago, instead of the years that they had been apart.
It was like watching a puppy follow its master. Heck, I didn’t even blame the mare.
“I’ll be damned. That horse tried to kick me when I got close to her.” Parker spoke as he re-entered the trailer and got out the gelding.
“What’s his name, boss?” I heard another one of my hands, Greg call out. I then noticed that almost all of my hands had come from the pastures.
I contained the smile that wanted to fight forward on my lips. “Titan.” I simply said.
And just like that all of my men nodded and glanced at Corrine. They knew their boss wouldn’t simply name one of his horses with only one name. They were his. They deserved titles.
However, I had liked that one word that summed up the big black gelding.
“I like it.” Sam replied.
