Chapter Twenty-One
Logan stepped away, and Joe was embarrassed for a minute that his brother had seen Sara try to emasculate him. “What are you doing here, anyway?” he asked.
“I called your place, and some woman answered, said Ryan took off and you’d gone after him,” Logan said. “I was going to drop in and see you two. I was visiting Mom and Dad in Boise, and I thought they didn’t need to hear you were having trouble, so I came myself. I ran into Stan Jerow—doesn’t look as if he’s aged a day, still bald. He waved me down, said Ryan had been airlifted to the hospital, hurt bad by some runaway horse.”
Joe wondered if half the town had heard that story. Sometimes, Stan and Hazel could do more damage with their mouths and their gossip than anything else.
“That’s not entirely true,” Joe sai
