Joanna Sims – A Bride For Liam Brand (страница 9)

“I didn’t bag him.” Kate laughed. “He came willingly.”

“That’s the best way.” Lorrie swung a Western saddle on her Appaloosa’s back. “If I weren’t already married, I’d have been all over that a long time ago.”

That seemed to be the general consensus on Liam Brand. She knew that he was smart and handsome and successful, but she didn’t know just how sought after he was. There were going to be a lot of sad bachelorettes if this “thing” with Liam worked out. Kate knew that the town was talking about them, and she didn’t like it. What was there to be done about it?

“Hey, he likes you.” Lorrie slipped a bitless bridle onto her horse’s head. “They lost, you won. That’s how the cookie crumbles.”

Kate walked with her friend out to the nearby round pen where they would work for the next hour. Once Lorrie mounted and walked her horse into the pen, Kate followed and shut the gate behind them.

“It’s not like this is a done deal,” she told her friend. “We haven’t even had one date.”

“I’ve got a feeling about this.” Lorrie told her. The woman was always having “feelings” about things—truth was, she was more often right than wrong.

Kate tightened the horse’s girth before she patted the Appaloosa on the haunch. “Okay. Let’s focus on training for now. We can start planning my wedding later.”

* * *

It was an afternoon date, and Liam insisted that he pick her up at the ranch like a real date. They had talked on the phone every day since she had agreed to go out with him; they both agreed that going into town, the hotbed of gossip, wasn’t the way they wanted to do it for their first date. Instead, Liam took her to his family’s ranch, Sugar Creek, where there was enough room for them to ride up to the mountains on the property and have a private picnic.

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