Chapter 164: Sweetwater Ranch

VOLUME 3: ANNA’S HEART

“He’s coming here to the Sweetwater, can you believe it?” Simone chattered. “Angus McGregor, here at our little guest ranch. Who could have imagined it?” Tight black braids framed her deep mocha face, and her dark brown eyes sparkled with excitement.

Anna Graves tucked her long dark chestnut hair behind her ears and flicked an annoyed glance at her sister-in-law before she scanned the handful of guests who’d just arrived for a two-week stay at Sweetwater Ranch. Some of them milled around the expanse of the lodge’s rustic lobby while others checked in at the front desk with Anna’s mother, Teresa.

Anna shrugged indifferently. “He’s just another guest. He’d better not come here expecting that he’s going to be waited on hand and foot, that’s all I can say. This is a working cattle ranch. People know that when they sign up.”

“Yeah,” Simone gushed, “but I hear he’s getting ready to do a cowboy movie, and he has to brush up on his riding.”