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“Then I should be crying, too, but I’m too happy to cry. Can I go tell Granny and Poppa and the rest of the family after breakfast?” Theron asked.
“Yes, you can.” Lucas swiped away a tear. “Mama has a plaque in her house that saysHome is where the heart is.”
“Is your heart here?” Vada asked.
“I’ve always thought that home is where I hang my hat,” Lucas said, “but I agree with her now. This is home and my heart is right here.”
“Yep, it is.” Theron put his new belt on over his pajamas. “It fits me, and I love my new name. Theron Ryan. We are all Ryans on this ranch now.”
“Yes, we are,” Lucas said.
“I’ll be back in a minute.” Theron rushed into his bedroom.
“What’s that all about?” Lucas asked.
Vada put her arms around his waist and laid her head on his chest. “He’s got to go look at himself in the mirror to see if he’s different than he was ten minutes ago.”
“He’s sure enough different than he was a year ago. He may never be like other kids his age, but that’s okay, too. We have a special kid, and now he’s mine as well as yours,” Lucas said.
“Yes, he is, and, honey, my heart is right here, and always will be,” Vada whispered. “I love you, Lucas Ryan.”
“And I love you, Mrs. Lucas Ryan.” He smiled.
Don’t miss the other Ryan brothers in:
SECOND CHANCE AT SUNFLOWER RANCH
and
TEXAS HOMECOMING.
Keep reading for a peek at
TEXAS HOMECOMING
Cody Ryan inched along at less than ten miles an hour on the icy roads. He had driven through sandstorms, outrun tornadoes, and even worked his way over snowcapped mountains, but nothing had ever been like this.
“So much for a big Texas homecoming,” he muttered as his truck slid over toward a ditch and then back again to the middle of the road. His windshield wipers were doing double time, but with the blizzard-like conditions, he couldn’t have seen the yellow line in the middle of the pavement even if there were one.
So, you’re tired of having sand everywhere and living in a tent, are you?The words of his old friend Nate Fisher came back to his mind.
“We don’t have much choice right now. We’ve got to get out of this place, and I’m ready to go home to Texas where it gets cold in the winter.” Cody repeated what he had told Nate last summer when he had hurriedly packed his bags and gotten ready to catch the next military truck headed toward a town with an airport.
“But I didn’t expect a damn blizzard to settle down right over the top of us just weeks after I got home.” His truck tires lost traction again and fishtailed all over the road.
When he finally got control, he hit the speed dial for Sunflower Ranch to let his family know he wouldn’t be home as soon as he thought. Addy, his sister-in-law, answered the phone on the third ring.
“Hey, Cody, everything okay?” she asked. “The roads look pretty bad out there.”
“Yeah, sorry I’m running late. Please don’t hold supper. It’ll be a while before I can get back home in this storm,” Cody said.
“I’m putting you on speaker. I’ve got Pearl, Sonny, Mia, and Jesse all here around the table with me.”
“Hey, everyone!” Cody answered. “Y’all need to stay inside as much as possible, and off these slick roads. Have you heard a weather report?”
“Uncle Cody, they say this snow isn’t going to stop for a couple of days,” Mia chimed in.
“Drive safe,” his father yelled.
