Chapter Fifteen
Stan waited out behind the kitchen for her after lunch.
She’d been strangely distant and silent once they’d reached his truck. He’d almost teased her about sharing a shower but thought better of it at her stonewalled silence.
During lunch, he’d dropped in on Doug. He was the closest thing they had to a veterinarian on the ranch. He even had a small x-ray machine, more suited for horse legs than human ones but it worked. Doug had confirmed the sprain, given him an Ace bandage, a bottle of ibuprofen, and a pair of crutches he had lying around. Then they’d had a couple of sandwiches and sodas out by the barn just shooting the s**t and watching the horses laze around in one of the corrals. He’d have to remember to do that more often.
Stan now sat on the stone wall of Nathan
