His aunt laughed. She stood, kissed the top of his dusty hair and walked out of the barn.
He wasn’t comfortable with the way she kept on laughing all the way out into the warm afternoon.
He set to work, rucking out stalls and repairing broken boards. Working up a good sweat ought to get his mind off matchmaking old ladies and back where it belonged, ankle-deep in straw and dried-out manure.
* * *
It had been six days since the Travers family had taken over Holly Jane’s home and, she had to admit, the world had not ended. In some ways life had improved.
For instance, because Colt had spread the word that the ranch belonged to him, she was able to sit beside the spring in Town Square without a single suitor pressing his suit.
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