Chapter 7
“Why did you want me to meet you in the barn?”
Annemarie looked over the back of her buckskin gelding. Gabe strode across the aisle of the barn holding up the note she’d tacked to the front door of her cabin. As usual, he was dressed in jeans, a long-sleeved, button-up denim shirt, and work boots. Her heart fluttered, remembering the first time he’d walked through that door. The image presented to her was almost exactly the same, except for the time of day and a pair of saddled geldings in place of a laboring mare, but so much had changed. The first time he’d walked into her barn, Gabe had been a stranger. He definitely wasn’t now, and she was glad to see him for entirely different reasons.
“And why are River and Sundance saddled?” he asked, reaching her and Cody and the horse
