This depth of feeling for someone…I didn’t know this was possible.
I had loved Alexa, my ex-fiancée. It’s why I asked her to marry me.
But the love I had for Alexa doesn’t compare with what I feel for Bliss.
I’ll have to go slow. It doesn’t matter that I want to rush in headfirst and blurt out that I’ve fallen hard for her. She’d run away screaming.
A truck pulls into the barnyard next to me. I’m parked at Max and Nash’s processing shed with a load of first-calf heifers in my trailer. I’m tightening my calving window, and Nash wants to buy them from me.
Today, they’re in the process of sorting their herd, and the vet is going to preg check everything.
I glance at the truck next to me and climb out to greet the vet.
He walks around the front of the truck and looks at me in surprise. “Wait, you’re not Max, but you look familiar.”
I hold out my hand and shake his. It’s Grey. The man I thought Bliss was flirting with. “We met in town.”
He smiles. “Oh, that’s right! I met you and your wife yesterday. Sorry I didn’t remember right away. I’m trying to connect everyone’s faces with their names.”
“Yeah, you’ll get it straightened out fast. There aren’t a lot of people in town.” That’s stating the obvious. The population limit is 749. That might be generous.
“Nice that way,” Grey comments.
Max and Nash walk out of the barn and head our way. “Zane, I wasn’t sure you’d make it,” Max says. “You’ve been so busy at home.”
He grins at me. He’s having way too much fun with me being married to Bliss. He’s almost as happy as he was when he married Charlie.
“Very funny. I’m still working.”
“It wasn’t a very long honeymoon. Maybe you should go on another trip?” Max suggests.
He’s the only one who knows we stayed home for our honeymoon. He covered for us by telling everyone that he was taking care of the animals for us.
“Don’t we have some work to do?” I ask dryly. “Daylight’s wasting.”
It’s probably all of five fifteen. But anything to get Max to shut up about going on another honeymoon with Bliss. Because I know that there’s nothing I’d love more than to go on a first honeymoon with her.
I turn around and climb back into my truck, backing the trailer up to the gate Nash opens for me. He swings open the trailer door and the twelve heifers amble out.
“Are you sure these aren’t a bunch of old cows?” Nash jokes. “They’re so calm.”
I shake my head. “Feel free to mouth them. They’re the ones that were up by my house. They’re used to coming up to the barn every night.”
Working with the guys all morning ends up being the distraction I need. I hate to admit it, but even Grey isn’t too bad. He’s quiet, intelligent, and can hold his own. And he doesn’t keep making comments on my love life like Max does. Even Nash is getting in on the newlywed teasing.
We finish up with the cows and are putting away all the supplies, when Nash makes a comment. “So, married in the spring, does that mean we’ll hear another announcement soon?”
I glare at him as I pop the vaccine gun out of the medicine bottle. “I’ll wait for your announcement first. You’ve been married longer.”
“Yes, but you’re older. You don’t want your kids to be able to outrun you,” Nash says with a chuckle.
Maybe working with the guys this morningwasn’tthe distraction I needed.
“I doubt Bliss is in a hurry to have kids anytime soon.”
“And why is that?” Max asks with a gleeful smile.
“You two are ridiculous,” I mutter as I put the vaccine bottles back in the cooler on ice.
