Help in the time of need

My Cowboy of Convenience Chapter 10

Hi Dear Reader,

Welcome back for the next chapter. If you are just joining in, start at Chapter 1!

Chapter Ten

Erin

“I hate Mondays,” Louisa flopped onto the office chair next to mine. She laid her head in the crook of her elbow on my desk.

“Now what?” I rolled my eyes to the clock on the wall. “We only have ten minutes until closing.”

“Lazy B called.”

My nose wrinkled. Lazy B was one of the big ranches in the area. They seemed to be coming into the vet clinic daily. It was always a different cowboy bringing in an animal. “What is it this time?” I sighed. When they called, it was never good.

“Jed’s rope horse got tangled in a fence. And needs stitches,” she said with her face down on the desktop.

“Okay…how long until they get here.”

“Fifteen minutes,” she muttered.

I groaned. I would be working late again, and I wanted to bang my head on the desk with Louisa. “Who’s Jed?”

She perked up. “You haven’t…