Love Wears A Stetson "Wyatt" (9 page)

As we drove down the road I noticed that there had been a new road put in on a small parcel of property that my dad owned. Hmm I don’t remember him saying anything about that. We pulled down the driveway and stopped behind Jesse’s truck. What was he doing here? I looked at Wyatt in a confused manner and Wyatt just looked at me and shrugged. What was going on?

Wyatt put the truck in park and turned off the engine. He walked around the truck and opened my door, and helped me out of the truck. My dad
stepped out
the front door, down the steps and scooped me up in a bear hug.

“Welcome home Mrs. Walker.”

“Hey, dad”

Dad walked over to Jack and shook his hand.

“Good to have you both home, finally.”

“Thanks, Jack.”

Just then Mary Lu, Josh, Jesse, Cheyenne and Carson came out the door.

Well you two, Mary Lu and I want to give you your wedding present, so everyone load up in your trucks and follow us. I watched as Mary Lu climbed into my dad’s truck. Then Cheyenne got into Jess’s and Josh hitched a ride with Carson.

“Wyatt, what is going on?”

“I don’t have any idea, but if we don’t get into the truck in a few seconds their going to leave us here.”

We climbed in the truck and followed the train of trucks heading back out to the road. We turned back on the main road and were heading back towards the Walker ranch. Before I knew what was going on, Wyatt was following Carson down the new road I had noticed. We went about a quarter of a mile and over a small hill and there before our eyes was a house. A house, that hadn’t been there ten days ago. I looked at Wyatt in shock. The trucks lined up in front of the house and everyone exited the trucks.

Dad, what is this? I know this wasn’t here before?

Dad held out his hand and handed Wyatt a set of keys. Wyatt and I both just stared at his hands holding the keys. This can’t be real.

Kenna
, Wyatt this is your wedding present. This is the little piece of property I bought about thirty years ago. It was the old Campbell farm. We tore down the old house and Mary Lu and I got this house for a steal, because it had to be moved. Your mom had a new septic system put in and we had the well check and it’s really good.

“Dad, Mary Lu I can’t believe you did this for us.”

“Jack, Mom, I don’t know what to say, but thank you so much.”

Mary Lu stepped forward and gave Wyatt a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

“Son, I think you two need to go check out your new home.”

Chapter 22

I took
Kenna
by the hand and we made our way to our new home. We were about to step in the house, when Mary Lu yelled at us

“Wyatt you need to carry her over the threshold.”

For old time sake I bent down and threw
Kenna
over my shoulder, careful not to hurt our baby. I chuckled and smacked her on the butt.
Kenna
squealed and I had to laugh. We walk through the door and I set her back down, she gave me a glare and I kissed the tip of her nose.

“I’ll get you for that, Wyatt Walker.”

“Promises, promises my sweet and sexy wife.”

I took her hand and we made our way through the house. The first thing I noticed about the house was it was huge. The bottom floor had a large living room, formal dining room, a full bathroom and huge kitchen with room for a kitchen table and chairs.

We walked up stairs and the first rom we came to was a smaller bedroom. The next room’s door was closed and when we open it,
Kenna
was speechless as she saw what it held. It was freshly paint a pale yellow with a pale mint green trim. What really was holding her attention was the complete nursery furniture set, it contained.

She walked across the hard wood floor and lifted the large card from the crib. She read the card and the tears were trailing down her cheek. I walked over to her and read the card that she still held.

With all our love.

Carson

Jesse

Josh

I took her in my arms and kissed her head. When we turned to leave the room is when we noticed the rocking chair I had given to
Kenna
. It looked like it was sitting there waiting for a baby to rock to sleep.

We walked down the hall way and found 1 more average side bedroom, a large bedroom and a bathroom. The house need to be updated, but I could afford to do that. What Jack said was a small piece of property was one hundred acres and the house had to be at least 1800 square feet. And it was all ours, it was home.

Epilogue

End of April

I sat in the passenger seat, as Wyatt drove us home. I looked in the back seat of the truck, one more time. It made me nervous, being this far away. My whole life seemed too good to be true. I had a wonderful husband and now, we’ve been blessed with the little angel in the back seat.

How could a little human only twenty inches long, steal your heart so fast.

“Darlin, Maggie is fine. We only have a few miles to go, please try to relax.”

What seemed like forever, we pulled up in front of our home.

Wyatt removed the car seat and carried little Maggie Mae into our home for the first time. Wyatt had made Maggie a beautiful cradle, with her name carved on the top. I removed her from her car seat and placed her in the cradle that was next to the couch to sleep. We sat down on the couch and watched our little miracle sleep.

The only thought at that moment was my life was truly blessed.

~*~*~*~

While
Kenna
was up stair feeding my little Maggie Mae, I heated up a casserole that mom had brought over earlier. I put dinner in the oven and pulled out what I needed for a salad.

After setting the table I for dinner, I brought the cradle over by
Kenna
’s side of the table.

I quietly walked up the stairs and walked towards Maggie’s room. The door was already open and I could hear music softly playing on the small stereo that we had bought for Maggie’s room. When I peeked my head into the room and took in the sight I saw. It made my heart swell with pride. There was my beautiful wife, the love of my life, softly rocking our tiny daughter. Little Maggie Mae, was the spitting image of her mother, with a full head of chocolate brown hair. She will be a real heartbreaker when she was older.
Kenna
sat in the rocking chair I had given her, gently rock our child as she hummed softly to Maggie in a soothing manner.

I knew at this moment life didn’t get much better than this, and I knew that I needed to count my blessing every day of my life.

Coming Soon

Fall of 2012

Love Wears A Stetson.

Jesse

Book # 2 in the four book series

“Love Wears A Stetson
Series
”

By Anne Marie Beck