5/26/2023 0 Comments Single Dad Cowboy by Brenda Minton![]() ![]() Eyes closed, she focused on breathing, on getting her head clear. ![]() Finally she came to a bone-jarring halt, slamming her head against the steering wheel. The fence flew at her window, the barbed wire sliding across the glass. Laura hit the brakes and held tight to the wheel as the car tilted. Laura yanked the steering wheel to the right and sent her car off the side of the road, bouncing as it hit the ditch. The car loomed large in front of her, her own headlights catching the expression on the face of the woman behind the wheel. She opened her mouth to scream but the sound choked and wouldn’t come out. ![]() The big sedan pulled out of a side road, right in the path of Laura’s car. She reached to turn the defrost on High and the headlights became a car. ![]() Laura slowed, trying to adjust to the dark, the lack of visibility. Laura didn’t want to think ahead to what she would do if her aunt turned her away.Īhead of her, headlights flashed, the beams catching on the sheets of rain. Hopefully her aunt Sally wouldn’t mind the unannounced visit from a niece she hadn’t seen in a dozen years. Her head ached from straining to see the dark, rain-soaked highway. This had been going on since shortly after she left Tulsa, and in the past ten minutes it had gotten worse. Rain pelted the windshield of Laura White’s car and the wipers worked hard to keep up, making a horrible scraping sound with each swish. ![]()
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