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He did have a long drive home, and maybe Cherry wouldn’t be working today. Of course she wouldn’t, because it was New Year’s Day, and she had a normal job with normal vacation days.
It was only cowboys who worked every day of the year.And nurses and doctors, Will told himself.Pilots, truck drivers, Mother Nature, and the Good Lord Himself.
They walked along a fence with flowers spilling from baskets along the top, and Will’s stomach clenched as an idea formed in his mind. “Gretchen,” he said as they reached the corner of the fence and even more of the yard opened up before them.
She looked at him expectantly.
He just had to say it. Ask her. The words foamed in his gut, rolling upward and out of his mouth. “Would you go out with me?”
Pure shock covered her expression, and her eyes widened. “Like, on a date?”
“That’s usually what a man means when he asks a woman out,” a woman said, and Will whipped around and backed up at the same time, as if he might need to protect Gretchen from the hag who’d appeared out of nowhere.
An older woman leaned against what wasn’t a fence, but a railing, a smile made of pure glee on her face.
Gretchen moved out from behind his weak protective stance and to his side. “My aunt Patty,” she said. “Aunt Patty, this is William Cooper.”
“William Cooper?” a man practically yelled, and Will thought he’d fit in real nicely at the farm. A thumping, rolling sound came across the deck, and an older gentleman appeared at Aunt Patty’s side. He was obviously Gretchen’s father, though he wore a line of disapproval between his eyebrows right now.
“Ain’t no daughter of mine goin’ out with a man with a name like that.”
