Chapter 179

VOLUME SIX: A COWBOY AND HIS SWEET SPOT

Carter's ass bounced on the hard seat of his banged-up pickup truck as he drove across the state line into Wyoming. Man, he was tired, and his butt hurt. Riding fourteen hours on the back of a horse was much more comfortable than six on the worn-out seat in the truck.

Mid-November snow was in the air, as well as piled up along buildings and the sides of the road. He was finally heading back to Saddle Creek, Wyoming, the town he'd called home for at least two decades. He'd been twenty-three when he'd left, and he missed his mother every day of the five long, lonely years he'd been gone. There, he'd said it. A twenty-eight-year-old, grown-ass man missed his mommy. As an only child he had a special relationship with her, extremely close, and he'd broken her heart when he moved to Montana to work on a horse ranch. Now he had some making up to do.

The phone conversation with her a few weeks ago assured him he'd made the right decision. The owner