Kelly Boyce – Dreaming Of A Western Christmas: His Christmas Belle / The Cowboy of Christmas Past / Snowbound with the Cowboy (страница 16)

“Oh, very well,” she said. “Do stop badgering me, Brand. You’re worse than Mama at her most officious moments.”

His dark eyebrows went up. “Your momma bossed you around?”

“Well, she tried to. I don’t guess I ‘bossed’ very well.”

His laugh surprised her. Brand might be an overbearing bully, but at least he had a nice laugh—rich and rumbly.

She dragged herself upright, stuffed her feet into her boots and noticed that her blisters no longer hurt. Then she slipped three more slices of fried jerky past her lips and devoured another biscuit. Besides coffee, Brand made very fine biscuits.

She supposed that, being an army wife, she must learn to cook, but somehow the prospect was daunting. She hadn’t thought to pack one of Hattie’s receipt books, but frying slices of jerky couldn’t be too difficult, could it?

Brand appeared to be in a real fizz to be on their way. He packed up both bedrolls, fed the horses and hovered at her elbow while she finished the last of her biscuits. Before she swallowed the remains of her coffee, he tramped off to the creek to wash the tin plates, then packed them into his saddlebag.

She had to scramble to fit in her necessary morning stop and splash cold water on her face before Brand herded her over to the mare.

“Want a boost up?” he asked.

“No, I do not. Why are you in such an all-fired hurry this morning?”

“No reason.” He wouldn’t look at her, so she knew he was lying. Something was wrong. Her heart skipped some beats.

She pulled herself up into her saddle and shot him a look. “We are not being followed, are we?”

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