My Alpha is A Cowboy

Chapter 12

Danielle P.O.V

After Ryder left I went to the room I was staying in and got on my computer, browsing through my social media to see what everyone was up to back at home in Iowa. Once I was done looking through everything I decided to go for a jog with my mom, also my fitness partner when it comes to running. I decided to go for a run to Ryder's barn and show my mom around.

When we got to Ryder's barn I saw Ryder and a couple other people feeding, watering, and giving hay to the horses. Ryder turned around and saw my mom and I, he smiled and waved. We walked over to Sassy's stall and I showed my mom Lady, promising her I would have her ride her only after I got to ride her first of course. I grabbed a brush and threw it to my mom and told her she could brush Sass, I was going to see if Ryder needed any help.

I walked over to the stallion barn where Ryder was checking over the studs Duke and Remington. He was talking to one of the ranch hands and told them to check on the yearlings and the two year olds. When the ranch hand walked away I walked up to him and wrapped my arms around him.

"You know, I haven't seen the studs yet. This is the first time I've seen them."

"Well you've seen me, I'm a stud," Ryder said winking at the end. I laughed and pushed him.

"Thanks for coming to dinner. Oh, and I'm sorry my dad looked like he wanted to shoot you in the head, he's just a little protective of my because of, yeah. Sorry about that," he laughed and shook his head meaning that it was no big deal, "Oh and my mom and I were wondering if some time we could come out and ride Lady, she looks so fun to ride."

"Yeah of course, how about next week."

"Sounds perfect." We walked back over to my mom and Sassy only to see a note from my mom saying she went to go watch one of the workers ride a pretty Thoroughbred, so we walked over to the arena where they had some jumps set up and we saw my mom watching a gorgeous bay Thoroughbred.

"Ready to go home mom?" She nodded her head and instead of running back we had a nice walk back home.

Once we reached the house she went and took a shower in her room and I did the same in mine. When I was done I put on some silk jammies and some tall PINK socks, grabbed my phone, charger, blanket, and pillow and walked to the viewing area. I put some cushions down and got comfy. My phone started to buzz so I picked it up.

"Hello. Yes I know Liz. Oh my God. Is she alright? I'll be over in a hour, if anything changes please call me, this is my best friend we're talking about. Ok thank you, good bye."

I ended the call and started to sob, my best friend was in the hospital. She was hit by a drunk driver just five miles away from here.

I reached for my phone again and called Ryder, "Ryder. No I'm not ok. Please come here quickly. Viewing area. Hurry."

I set my phone down and pulled knees to my chest rocking back and forth. If I never asked her to come here she never would have gotten hurt. Not even ten minutes later I could hear Ryder coming up the steps. I turned around and stood up running into his open arms. I fisted my hands into shirt and cried into her chest. He stood there silently waiting for me to tell him.

"I got a call from the hospital. Liz was hit by a drunk driver about five miles from here, and someone took her to the hospital. It's all my fault, I was selfish and made her come here," I ended at a whisper with tears running down my cheeks.

"Hey, it's not your fault sweetheart. It was the drunks fault. If people weren't so stupid to drink and drive then this wouldn't have happened, so it's his fault for doing so. Don't say it was your fault because it wasn't." I nodded my head and sniffled into his chest. How could that happen to her.

Ryder P.O.V

My poor mate, her best friend just into a collision and she's so upset. I should take her over to the hospital to see her.

"Sweetheart, do you want to go see her at the hospital right now. You can go tell your mom and then we can leave." She nodded her head and walked down the stairs to go to her parents room.

I waited outside of her parents room and heard her mom start to cry and tell her of course. Danielle gave her a hug and walked out and walked to her truck. She threw me the keys and told me to drive. I helped her into her seat and buckled her in giving her a kiss on the cheek. When I got in and started the truck up, I looked over at her and saw her staring at her hands that were in her lap, so I reached over and grabbed one to hold onto. She gave me a small smile and squeezed my hand, taking that as a go ahead I pulled out of the drive.

When we got to the hospital she got out of the truck and waited for me to get out and walk over to her, when I did she grabbed my hand and we walked in. Yeah we got a couple stares, Danielle was in her pajamas and I was way taller and looked way older than her. Once we had the directions to Liz's room we started to walk there. Danielle walked right in without even knocking and stood by Liz.

"She looks so pale," she said.

"Bitch, I can hear you," Liz said opening her eyes. Danielle laughed and went down to hug her gently. I smiled as Danielle was once again happy. Liz finally noticed me standing,checked me out earning a scowl from Danielle. "Damn Danielle who's the hottie?"

"That would be my boyfriend," Danielle said frowning. I smiled at her and went over to hug her showing her I wouldn't leave her. She relaxed into me and Liz smiled at us then frowned.

"You better not pull a David on her or-"

"So Liz how was Iowa treating you since I left?" Liz had a confused look on her face and then went into detail about every little thing about Iowa. I drifted off and started to think about what Liz had meant when she said not to pull a David on her. First of all who the fuck is David, and second what the fuck did he do to my mate.