Breathing life into the Buick

My Cowboy of Convenience Chapter 16

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Chapter Sixteen

Kaleb

I slammed the post hole digger into the earth, breaking off a chunk of dirt. My muscles strained as I lifted the chunk out of the two-foot hole and tossed it to the side. Sweat ran down my back. My t-shirt clung to me.

“What are you doing?” Katie said from behind me.

“I’m digging a hole.” I leaned on the post hole digger, wiping the sweat from my brow.

“The question is why?” She placed her hands on her hips. The long skirt she wore swung from side to side.

I shrugged. I didn’t want to examine that to closely.

“Don’t you have equipment and men to do that? You wouldn’t even have to break a sweat.”

“I need the exercise,” I grumbled.

“Sure.” Her eyebrows raised as her gaze swept over me. “Big brother, you don’t have an ounce of fat on you.”

I rolled my eyes skyward. “Katie, what do you want?”

She laughed. “I heard that Cody is back in town.”

I sighed. “Katie, just tell me what you wa…