Chapter Six: The Storm Warning
The thunder started just after sunset.
Not the soft kind either.
The kind that rattled windows and rolled through the mountains like something alive.
Kylie stood beside the bedroom window watching dark clouds swallow the last traces of daylight. Rain hammered the ranch below in violent waves while flashes of lightning lit up the fields for half a second at a time.
The entire property looked different at night.
Less beautiful.
More dangerous.
She wrapped her arms tighter around herself and glanced at the clock.
8:47 PM.
She’d spent almost the entire day avoiding Nolan.
Which should’ve been easy.
Except Pine Ridge somehow revolved around him.
Every worker mentioned him.
Every decision passed through him.
Even the horses seemed to listen when he w
