Chapter 14: A New Man
The following day while Pax was visiting his lawyer in Tulsa, Blake Keller found me in the barn as I was saddling up Merwanda, a beautiful but very stubborn girl who adored me. Blake sauntered up to my side as usual—sinewy and confident. He looked concerned as he said in his cowboy way, “Mind if I bother you a sec, Cal?”
I already had the reining saddle on the stunning horse, but turned my attention to Blake and replied, “You’re no bother.”
“I’d like to think I’m not.”
“Good thinking.”
He rubbed his ear, which told me he was getting an infection—he suffered from two or three a year. As he worked his ear, he said, “Can we talk about Pax?”
“Only if it’s all good. You know I don’t mind that.”
He dropped his hand to his side, nodded, and said, “It’s better tha
