Chapter 38
Kit had come in from one of the pastures. He saw the navy blue Avalanche and stood looking at it for a few moments.
"What's wrong Kit?" Cade, the young cowhand who worked with him asked.
"My brother used to have one like this," Kit looked like he had seen a ghost. "He sold it after the girl he was engaged to cheated on him."
"Wow, that sucks," Cade murmured.
"Tore Jakey's heart out," Kit was still staring at the truck. He shook himself.
"Must belong to the reporter that's coming out to talk to Darby," Cade said.
"Must," Kit nodded.
The two men kept walking towards the main house. As they came up a hill, they saw a woman with a braid down her back squatting in front of Kit's son Lucas, shaking his hand.
Kit frowned, seeing the reddish-brown hair. The pink backpack was hard to miss and it reminded Kit of the one Sam used to carry as a kid.
When the woman bent over to pick up her pen, Kit's breath rushed out of him. He knew that butt. Kit had seen it a thousand times while playing football.
My gosh, it was Samantha! Sam who had betrayed his little brother. The hatred flowed through his body.
"Get away from my son," Kit's voice was a growl.
Sam turned, her confused eyes meeting his angry ones.
Kit saw the realization on Sam's face that he was there. She took a step back from his anger.
"Kit?" Jonah raised his eyebrows at his ranch foreman. "This is the reporter here to interview Darby about her mustang."
Kit and Sam squared off. Kit's eyes shot venom at her. Sam's eyes registered her shock and confusion. It looked as if she were about to run off. As if she wanted to run off. To be anywhere but here facing Kit.
"I knew this reporter from back home," Kit explained.
"Is there going to be a problem?" Jonah looked between Kit and Sam.
"Not as long as I don't have to speak to her," Kit's eyes narrowed. "I have nothing to say to this woman."
Sam felt everyone's gazes on her, yet she couldn't say anything. She was afraid if she opened her mouth she would start babbling. Or start screaming. What were the chances that she would end up where Kit was?
Darn, she knew driving that Avalanche was going to be bad luck. She should have done the Thelma and Louise off the cliff.
Kit became blurry as Sam looked at him. She knew she had tears in her eyes.
"Daddy, why is she crying?" Lucas asked.
Lucas. He was obviously named after his grandfather. He was what she and Jake's son would have looked like.
"I'm sorry," Sam waved her hand in front of her face. "I forgot something in the truck."
She ran for the truck like her hair was on fire.
They heard her sobbing as she ran.
"You better have a good excuse for this, Kit," Jonah told his foreman.
"She was engaged to my brother Jake," Kit informed his employer. "Then she cheated on him. She broke his heart."
"This is the same brother who is getting married this week?" Jonah asked.
"Yes," Kit nodded. He looked down at his son who looked as if he were trying to make sense of what father was saying.
"If you can't be pleasant, maybe you need to avoid her while she's here," Jonah suggested.
Darby was staring towards the blue truck where Sam was leaning against the far side of the truck and sobbing. She watched as the back of Sam's head disappeared. She had obviously slid down the truck to sit on the ground as she cried.