Chapter 20
CHAPTER TWENTY
HOLDEN
“ B oss, I’m going to say something, and I don’t want you to cut my dick off for it.”
My eyes don’t leave my wife as she rides through the pasture toward the tree line. “Say you think my wife is sexy, and you’ll not only be fired, I’ll take your fucking eyes out.”
I hear him gulp, and then he laughs in earnest. “I forgot what I was going to say.”
He pats my shoulder and then walks away as I watch Millie’s horse slow as they disappear into the evergreens.
She is sexy on that horse. Hell, she’s sexy doing anything at all, but in my barn, taking care of her animal, it’s almost more than I can take.
It’s obvious that the visit with her father knocked her off her stride, and needing a little time alone to settle her nerves shouldn’t hurt my feelings.
But for just a second, it did.
And that’s ridiculous. We can’t be attached at the hip twenty-four seven. It’s normal for people to take a moment for themselves if they need it.
But I had eight fucking years to myself, and I’m over it.
Shaking my head, I walk back into the barn and return to the chores I was doing while Millie was gone. Everything that I have to do here can be handled by my men. If I had to take a month off, my ranch wouldn’t suffer for it.
However, I enjoy being out here, working. It soothes me, the way being on her horse calms Millie.
So, while she works out whatever’s going on in that gorgeous head of hers, I’ll stay here, waiting for her. She has one hour, starting now, to get her pretty little ass back here, before I go searching for her.