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Open to Possibilities
An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication
www.ellorascave.com
Open to Possibilities
ISBN 9781419909931
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Open to Possibilities Copyright © 2007 Carol Lynne
Edited by Helen Woodall.
Photography and cover art by Les Byerley
Electronic book Publication September 2007
This book may not be reproduced or used in whole or in part by any means existing without written
permission from the publisher, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, Inc.® 1056 Home Avenue, Akron OH 44310-
3502.
This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales
is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously.
O
PEN TO
P
OSSIBILITIES
Carol Lynne
Dedication
To my cousins and my sisters. Thank you for believing in me.
Trademarks Acknowledgement
The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the
following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:
Big Mac: McDonald’s Corporation
Stetson: John B. Stetson Company
Author Note
The author freely acknowledges the United States’ “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in
the U.S. Military, but in her world, all men are created equal.
Open to Possibilities
Chapter One
Riding across his dry west Oklahoma land, Gabe Whitlock ran his eyes over the
pastures. Dry. Everywhere he looked the water had dried up. He pulled back on the
reins, gently stopping his buckskin mare Lolly, and dismounted. He led Lolly over to
the dry creek bed and took off his battered straw Stetson. “Damn, Lolly, there isn’t even
enough water here for you, let alone four hundred head of cattle.”
He mounted his horse again and rode toward the barn to find Rex Cotton. Gabe
bought the ranch a month ago and Rex Cotton was his foreman. Although Cotton knew
a lot more about cattle than Gabe did, he was always willing to teach Gabe what he
needed to know.
Gabe’s old friend Jake Baker’s father used to own the ranch but Jake sold it to him
when his father was killed. The one stipulation of the sale was that Rex Cotton received
total ownership of his foreman’s house and he had a job as foreman as long as he was
physically able.
The main problem aside from the lack of water on the Double B was the main ranch
house. Gabe just couldn’t get a good night’s sleep in it. Buck Baker, Jake’s father, had
raped and branded his stepdaughter in the upstairs bedroom when she was just
eighteen. Seven years later Buck tracked Jenny down again and kidnapped her from the
hospital after he shot her and brought her here to the Double B and held her in the
basement. Jake was married to Jenny now as well as to Cree Sommers. It was an odd
arrangement to most folks but it worked well for the three of them.
The problem was the house. Every time Gabe was in the house he felt dirty. He had
no idea when he’d bought the place that he’d feel that way in his own home but he did.
Gabe hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in a month.
He took his hat off again as he rode toward the barn and ran his fingers through his
short dark brown hair. He needed to find Cotton. They would have to figure out what
to do about the water or his cattle would die of thirst. Thinking of Cotton made Gabe’s
jeans feel a size too small in the crotch. That was one handsome man.
Jake had talked about Cotton several times but he pictured an old man with snow
white hair. Although Cotton was older, forty-six to Gabe’s thirty-two, he was by no
means an old man. His hair had once been black as night but was liberally peppered
with gray now, at least in front. It gave him a distinguished appearance, Gabe thought.
Cotton was about six foot three, the same height as he was, but where Gabe was built
like a brick outhouse Cotton was lean and sinewy. Cotton had the body of someone
much younger. Gabe loved the way his legs seemed to go on forever and the veins in
his arms bulged. That, more than the size of his biceps, signaled the amount of muscle
in his lean frame.
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