Chapter 25
Tommy spent a long, hard day in the saddle, driving the cattle down a dusty road through the arroyo for the first day of their roundup. They’d reach the buyer’s ranch by sundown the second day, and Tommy hoped that, without the cattle slowing them down, they’d make double-time back to Sharpley’s. He couldn’t wait to see Lyle again.
Unfortunately, he stayed busy all day, too busy to let his mind wander back to that bordello bedroom and his lusty “lady.” Between corralling the straying cows to riding point ahead on the trail, wrangling the stragglers to watching the rear for marauding rustlers, Tommy’s mind stayed on task from the moment he pulled himself up into the saddle until Hal let them camp that evening. Tommy gulped down a hot meal of chili and cornbread, then took first
