The Trouble With Cowboys
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While Amy brought the prime rib to the table, Jenna lit the candle for their mom.
Amy’s sadness was there at the dinner table with her, and she felt it in her sisters too. But with the grief came a celebration of all the great moments they’d shared with their mom. Amy knew that whenever she saw the striking oranges and pinks of sunset playing on the mesas, or the bountiful hues of vegetables on a dish she’d created, she’d think of her mom’s love of all things bright and colorful.
Looking around the table at her sisters and her nephew, the man she loved and his mother, Amy knew for certain that she wouldn’t trade her crazy life or her crazy past for all the money in the world. The memories of her parents and her life choices, even Ultimate Chef Showdown, she’d hold fast to forever, like the precious treasures they were.
When everyone at the table joined hands, Amy said the prayer. She prayed for peace, and for her mother and father. She glanced at Kellan and his mother’s joined hands and added a wish for all the people in the world who were lost to find their rightful place in the world. She’d certainly found such a place in her childhood home.
“Amen,” everyone at the table said as one when she finished.
Kellan stood at the head of the table and picked up a MAC knife to carve the prime rib. Amy’s heart spilled over with love at the sight of him. All those rules she couldn’t help but break, all that heartache she experienced at the hands of other cowboys, it was all worth it because those experiences led her down the bumpy, windy road to Kellan Reed’s door. She had a lot of work ahead of her to make her restaurant and inn a success, but she was home, with her family around her, and the cowboy of her dreams by her side.
Life didn’t get any sweeter than that.
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