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Wyatt Hamilton, answer me right now!!!
I was about to respond when I decided to call her instead. She answered right away.
“Why didn’t you respond to my texts, Wyatt?”
I could picture the exact look on her face. I’d grown up having her annoyed at me at least once a week.
“I was busy. I don’t just sit around waiting for your texts all day.” Which was true and made it even more grating that she hadn’t bothered texting me before now.
“Whatever. Are you picking me up or what?”
“I’m surprised you’re coming back already with all the gallivanting you’ve been doing around Boise.”
“I was in Idaho Falls.”
“Same difference.”
“So are you telling me to stay here?” Her voice rose.
I frowned. Was she serious? I would die of boredom if she stayed another three weeks in Idaho. What was she doing anyway? Picking potatoes? “What time is your flight tomorrow?”
“I emailed it to you.”
“I don’t live on email. Tell me the flight number and time and I’ll be there.”
“I knew you missed me.”
“You know nothing, Sadie Johnson.” I laughed, unable to stay mad for long. Sadie and I had been best friends since we were five years old and went to kindergarten together. We had known each other since birth, though, as our mothers were good friends. But on the first day of kindergarten, another boy had been making fun of me, and Sadie had marched right up and told him off. She’d told him she was going to fight him if he continued being mean to me and that had been all it took. From that day, we’d been tied at the hip. All the way through high school. We’d even gone to the same college, and while we both had other friends and our own lives, we’d always been each other’s number ones.
“Text me the details, and I’ll see you tomorrow,” I told her. “Maybe we can grab some barbeque when you get back. I’ve been craving ribs.”
“You’re always craving something.” She laughed. “How are Olivia and Beau doing? Did he start building the ranch yet?”
“It’s only been three weeks since you’ve been gone. Everything is the same.”
Beau was my eldest brother, and he had recently gotten engaged to Olivia, who was best friends with my brother Austin’s fiancée, Lucy. Beau and Austin were the oldest of the seven Hamilton boys, and they still treated me like a kid, but at twenty-five, I was ready to take on a lot more responsibility at the ranch. I wasn’t just the baby of the family. And now that we were having a cash flow issue, all of us brothers were back at the ranch and trying to figure out our roles.
“Oh, well, I can’t wait to see them. Who knew that Beau and Austin could be so romantic?” Sadie sounded wistful. “Olivia and Lucy are so lucky.”
“They are?” I snorted. “For hooking up with two stinking cowboys?”
“Two cowboys that love them more than life itself,” she said, her voice soft.
I groaned. “Sadie, you’re not going to start going on about love and romance again, are you? How’s about we plan a shooting trip when you get back? That’ll be fun.”
“I don’t want to go hunting.” She sounded annoyed. “I want to find love.” “Anyway, I have to go. My cousin Daisy invited some guys she knows over, and we’re all going to go drinking.”
“Is that a good idea?”
“It’s a great idea that might lead to even better ideas,” she snapped. “I think I’m going to wear a new catsuit I got.”
“A what?”
“You know, what Cat Woman wore in Batman?”
“Sadie, no way in hell are you wearing anything like that, do you hear me?”
“Can’t stop me, Wyatt!” She giggled. “Bye now, I’ll see you tomorrow.”
