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  Chapter 15

  I woke up to a pounding headache and sun screaming through the window. I lifted my head and I could feel that my eyes were swollen from crying myself to sleep. How could Wyatt, just leave me like that, telling me I needed to go back to California with Mason, Was he nuts? He just got into his truck and left. Carson said he wouldn’t take his call last night, but he would try again today.

  It had taken calling the sheriff, to get Mason to leave. I told him, if he ever came back, I would get a restraining order taken out on him. How dare he come here and just expect me just to coming running into his arms, all happy to see him. The sheriff and my dad, made it quite clear to him, he was not welcome here, and that he was trespassing. I never wanted to see his cheating face again, but I knew the damage had been done. With just a few words, he had ruined my whole life.

  A knock on my door sounded and my dad cracked open my door.

  “How you doing hon, Do you want some breakfast?”

  “No thanks dad, but thank you anyway.”

  Dad walked in the bedroom and sat down on the edge of the bed. He took my hand in his two rough callused ones.

  “Hon, he’ll be back. Emotions were really high last night. He just wasn’t thinking clearly, is all? You’ll see.”

  “I don’t think so dad, Wyatt’s a proud man. I could see it in his face that he thought he wasn’t good enough for me. I could just beat Mason, for saying that. Wyatt and I, we had such a wonderful time this weekend and Mason ruined it and my whole life, dad.”

  My dad wrapped his arms around me and let me cry out as much pain as I could. When I was done, he handed me his handkerchief that he always carried.

  “Come on down and get something to eat and then we’ll figure this out.”

  “But dad…..”

  “No but’s young lady you get up from that bed and eat. I won’t let you make yourself sick.”

  “Okay.”

  “That’s better. I’ll see you in a few.”

  I grudgingly got out of bed and walked to the bathroom to take a shower. When I got out of the shower, I looked at myself in the mirror. I really looked like crap. I put on a change of clothes and brushed my hair. Reluctantly, I walked down to the kitchen.

  I was about to walk into the kitchen, when I heard my dad say.

  “He said what! That is just plan ass stupid, why would he think that.”

  I stepped through the doorway, looking at my dad.

  “Who are you talking about? Did Wyatt call? What did he say?”

  My dad looked down at the floor, then at Carson. Carson cleared his throat and answered for my father.

  “I called Wyatt this morning and we talked for a while. He has got something stuck in his head and I just couldn’t get him to see reason.”

  Carson paused and avoided eye contact with me.

  “He thinks that you should go back to California with Mason.”

  “What?”

  “He said that, Mason can give you everything you want and need. He thinks he has nothing to offer you, because he lives in his mom’s house and he works on the family ranch and makes furniture for extra money. I tried to tell him that, ranchers live a different life. That it’s not uncommon to have several families under the same roof, but he wouldn’t listen to me.”

  “That bossy arrogant man, what the hell is he thinking? I would live in a tent, if it meant I could stay with him. I will not go back to California with Mason; I don’t want anything to do with him. I don’t love, Mason and I realize now, I never did.”

  “That’s what I told him, but he wouldn’t listen. What are you going to do? You’re not going to give up on him are you?”

  “Hell no, I’ll let him have a little pity party for a while. I just wish some way I could make him see reason.

  Chapter 16

  I sat at the dining room table eating dinner, not saying a word. I ate the food but couldn’t tell you what it was I was eating. I was just walking through life right now, on autopilot. I was just going through the motions of living. It had been five days since I had seen Kenna, plus five very long nights. She had called at least a dozen times, but I just couldn’t talk to her, it would hurt too much.

  The mood at the dining room table seemed to be quite sullen. Everyone seemed to walk on egg shells around me. My mom hadn’t said much, but I could tell I wasn’t her favorite person right now.

  I had just picked up a fork full of some type meat we were eating for dinner when my mom slammed her hands down on the table as hard as she could. It startled me so bad, my fork went clattering to my plate and I jumped, I looked up to see Jesse and Josh with a surprised look on their face that probably mirrored my own.

  “ENOUGH! DO YOU HEAR ME, WYATT JAMES WALKER?”

  My mouth just hung open in shock.

  “Mom…..”

  “Don’t you dare, mom me. I have sat here and watched you wallow around in this self-inflicted self-pity, for almost a week. No more, do you understand me young man. I don’t care if your twenty six or sixty, this will stop right now. You have a wonderful woman, who loves you, not what you can buy her, but you, just you. You’re treating her like she is some type of shallow bimbo, who is after nothing but money from the man she’s in love with. How dare you, disrespect her like that.”

  I just stared in shock at my mom. She had never spoken to any of us like this before. Jesse and Josh picked up their plates to leave the room.

  “Sit down, right now both of you. You need to hear this too. This family and I mean all of us, own this ranch. This ranch has been in the Walker family for almost seventy five years. There have been at least a dozen different Walker families raised in this house. We’re not rich by any means of the word, but we sure as hell aren’t poor either. Your father and I raised you to be proud of your family. How do you think he would feel, to know that you’re ashamed of your family and what we stand for?

  All I could do was staring at my plate. She was right, I knew it. I looked in her tear filled eyes and cleared my throat that was full of shame and embarrassment.

  “He would probably kick my butt all over the back forty, and you know what, I would deserve it. I’m sorry mom, I really am. I was so wrapped up in myself, I just didn’t stop to think of what I was really saying.”

  Mom pushed back her chair and stood. She gave me a pointed look, and then let me have it with both barrels.

  “Do you Love, Kenna?”

  “Yes.”

  Then you better make this right, Wyatt. Do I make myself clear?

  “Yes ma’am.”

  “And you two, if you ever do something as arsine as your brother, you’ll be living out in the barn. Do you understand, what I’m saying to you both?”

  “Yes, mom.”

  “Yeah, I understand mom.”

  “Good.”

  With that one last word, she stormed out of the room.

  Chapter 17

  I sat on the couch facing the TV just staring not really seeing anything playing on it. Carson sat next to me on the couch, I could see him looking at me out of the corner of his eyes once in a while. Carson’s cell phone rang. He pulled it out of his pocket and checked to see who was calling. He glanced at me, then stood up from the couch and answered the phone as he walked toward the kitchen. I heard the back door close a few moments later.

  I waited a half hour for him to return, but he didn’t come back in the house. I stood and walked over to my dad and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

  “Dad, I’m going to bed, I’ll talk to you in the morning.”

  “Sweet dreams, hon.”

  As hard as I tried, I couldn’t fall asleep. My mind kept racing with all sorts of thoughts. When my mind, thought of the future, it saw a big question mark. My head was filled with a thousand what ifs.

  One thing I did know for sure was that I loved Wyatt, but how long was I going to wait for him to accept our love. What if he never did? Would I wait for him until I was old and gray? I knew the answer to that quest
ion, as sure as I knew my own name. Yes! I was awakened early by a knock on the door. Carson popped his head in the door and gave me a smile.

  “Hey sis, there’s delivery here for you.”

  “Oh Carson, its only 7:00 am, what is it?”

  I’m not telling you, it’s a surprise, now come and get up. Don’t make me drag you out of that bed.

  I sat up and threw my pillow at him. He laughed and shut the door. I could hear him laughing all the way down the hall. He is such a brat.

  I got out of bed and walked down to the stairs. When I had reached the base Carson was standing there with a stupid smile on his face.

  “What?”

  “You’ll see, come on, it’s in here.”

  I followed him across the hall and into the living room. I had no idea what I was looking for and I just looked at Carson blankly.

  “It’s over here.”

  I followed him around the other side of the couch. I stared blankly at what was in front of me.

  “I don’t understand?”

  “Wyatt thought this would say more than anything else.”

  I stood there and looked through tear filled eyes, at the most beautiful rocking chair I had ever seen. It looked like it was Mahogany and the back and seat were inlaid with cowhide on the seat and back. But that wasn’t what stopped me dead in my tracks and left me breathless. It was what was carved, on to the top of the back of the rocking chair. In beautiful script, it stole my heart. There was a heart carved on each side of the words.

  Kenna will you marry me

  I stood there like a fool, tears flowing down my face. I couldn’t take my gaze off the chair.

  “Carson, I don’t want to be hurt again, Can I trust him to not leave me again, when the road gets a little rough?

  “Why don’t you ask him yourself, darlin?”

  I swirled around and saw Wyatt, standing where Carson had been. Carson was nowhere to be seen.

  “How did you get in here without me hearing you come in?”

  Wyatt held out his hand and I saw a can of oil.

  “All I had to do was oil the screen door.”

  He gave me a weak smile.

  “To answer your other question, I never want to be away from you ever again. I’m so sorry, I was so stupid. I had no right, to make decisions for you.”

  “I don’t understand why you thought I would even think about going with Mason? I don’t love him and I really never did, I know that now.”

  “When you left for California, I thought that was what you wanted. That lifestyle and all that went with it.”

  “I went to California, to start a new life, because the man I had been in love with for years did want me.”

  Wyatt pulled me into his arms and held me tight.

  “I’ll always want you darlin, always. I know that I have more of one thing, than Mason does. I have more love for you than anyone else in this world, Kenna.”

  I held her close to me and let her cry out all her insecurities, doubts and hurt.

  He pulled back and looked at me. He wiped away my tears away with his fingertips. He then he knelt down on one knee in front of me and took my hand in his. I was shaking and wiping more tears away from my eyes so I could see him. Removing his hat and setting it on the floor he took a deep breath and spoke.

  “Kenna Jamison, I’m so sorry for what I did to you. I love you more than life itself. I can’t promise you the world, but I can promise you a life full of love. I’ll do my best to give you the happiest life possible. Will you marry me and make me the luckiest man alive.

  “Yes!”

  He reached into his pocket the stood in front of me.

  Kenna, my mother insisted you have this. She said it was good luck for her and my dad and she says it’ll bring us luck too. He took my hand again and placed an antique diamond engagement ring set in the center of the filigree gold swirls was a beautiful diamond. I wasn’t the largest diamond or the smallest diamond. It was like the man I loved, a perfect fit. He kissed my knuckle that held the token of his love, and then he kissed me.

  From the door way, I heard my dad’s voice.

  “It’s about damn time you two.”

  Chapter 18

  That night there was a party at the Walker ranch. It was a double celebration of sorts. The first thing we celebrated was Kenna and my engagement, the second was I had received a huge order for furniture. I was for a new hotel in Jackson Hole. They wanted me to do all the furniture for their lobby. The order was to be completed in nine months. That gave me all winter to fill the order.

  As the party come to a close, Jack and Carson headed home. Kenna wanted to stay so I told Jack I would take her home later. I asked Kenna if she would like to have tour of my wood shop. I promised her with a wink the she would defiantly enjoy it.

  Hand in hand we walked past the barn and to my shop behind it. I opened the door and stepped back so Kenna could walk in a head of me. I locked the door behind us. She had only had gone about five feet when she gasped in surprise. She turned toward me her, excitement made her whole face glow.

  “When did you do all this?”

  “After, I left your house this morning. We don’t have very many chances to be together and I figured tonight of all nights we would want to be together. I took one of the tarps from our camping trip on put it over my large saw dust pile. I packed it down so it was flat and put our sleeping bags on top of the soft saw dust. The bottle of wine etc…. I brought from the house earlier before you got here. Since there is dry wood all over here I figured it would be safer to use our battery camp light to give us a little romantic glow.”

  Oh this is so sweet. I love it

  I walked over to her and pulled her into my arms.

  “And I love you.”

  I didn’t waste any time, undressing both of us. I picked Kenna an up and carried her to our make shift bed. Lying on the bed together we kissed each other with all the love in our hearts. When we were force to break the kiss to take a breath, I turned Kenna so she was on all fours. I knelt behind her.

  “Darlin, I need to be in you, now. I need to feel your heat around me.”

  I reached around caressing her soft skin until I had found the apex of her. I separated her folds and began to stroke her gently. It only took moments, before soft cries of pleasure were passing her lips. I increased my speed and her body started moving in a way that told me she needed more. I entered her warmth with two fingers and she rode me until her release took her over.

  I removed my hand grabbed both of her hips and entered her. She cried out and started rocking into my thrust. I was thrusting into her at a frantic pace, and she was right there with me, meeting me thrust for thrust. She screamed out my name as she was over taken by her orgasm. Her female heat she squeezed my erection so hard I only lasted three more thrust before I joined her. A primitive growl of triumph, escaped my lips and then I clasped on her back.

  I rolled us to our side and engulfed her in my arms. I took the sleeping bag and covered our naked bodies. Kenna turned her head and gave me a tender kiss.

  “I love you, Wyatt.

  “I love you too, darlin”

  “Wyatt, how soon can we get married?”

  “You name a date and I’ll be there.”

  Chapter 19

  We chose September.15 as the date for our wedding. That would give us 8 weeks to get it all planned. The wedding was being held at Wyatt’s back yard. We still hadn’t figured out where we would be living after the honeymoon, but Mary Lu said she had no problem with us staying there.

  Time had flown by and the wedding was only five days away. I hadn’t been feeling well, so Wyatt insisted on taking me to the doctor. The doctor checked me over completely then took blood and urine samples. He stepped out of the exam room and went to check on some of the test that they were doing right there in the office. He came back into the room with some paperwork and what look like several sample boxes of medication. I was just praying it was nothing seriou
s that would mess up the wedding plans.

  “Miss Jamison, I’ve gone over all your test results, that we do here and we’ve found the cause of you illness.”

  I bit my lip with worry and I squeezed Wyatt’s hand. The doctor had a real serious look on his face and it was scaring the crap out of me.

  “Miss Jamison, after checking you and seeing the results of your tests, I’m 100% positive your about eight weeks pregnant.”

  I just started at him in shock. Finally the words he had said soaked in and I turned and looked at Wyatt. He was white as a ghost, it took him several moments to turn and look at me, then back at the doctor.

  “Are you sure? You’re positive? I mean we’ve use condoms every……………….oh crap.”

  “Oh crap, what, Wyatt?”

  “You remember the wood shop, darlin?”

  “Oh crap.”

  “I take it this is totally unexpected?”

  “Yeah.”

  We said in unison.

  “I’ll give you two a few moments.”

  The doctor stepped out the door and left us alone to talk in private. We sat there in stunned silence for a few moments, until finally, Wyatt spoke.

  I’m so sorry, I know we talked about kids in the………..

  Wyatt, I love you and this baby is half you and it represents the passion and love we share that night and we still share for each other. I know it’s sooner than what we wanted, I’m truly okay with this. I was just in shock at first.”

  He looked into my eyes and I could see that his shock was wearing off too. He stood up and walked over to me and took me into his arms and kissed the top of my head. He pulled back slightly to grin at me.”

  “I’m going to be a dad. I wonder what the smallest Stetson are you can buy?”

  I hugged him back and laughed.

  We walked out of the doctor’s office with instructions on what to do for the morning sickness and samples of prenatal vitamins. We drove home in a days. Should we tell our parents or wait until after the honeymoon?