The Cowboys pregnant fiance

Chapter 11

When Cody dropped Sherilyn off at her car in the Waffle house parking lot she expected him to follow her to the condo, where he could take up where he left off with his digging even if it was dark now.

Instead he said, "I guess I will see you tomorrow."

"Your not coming over?"

"Not tonight."

Then he took her by the hand and helped her out of his truck, just as if she were some kind of grand lady emerging from a limo.

How did he have the ability to make her feel like a million dollars, even if she'd just been riding in a pick up while wearing her waitress uniform? Even Brett who'd taken her out to five star restaurants and bought her designer dresses hadn't made her feel this way.

Then again her ex fiancé didn't seem to know how to treat a woman with sweetness or more important respect. If he had he would've never fooled around with anyone else, and he defiantly wouldn't of made jaw dropping excuses about it afterwards.

Cody walked her to her car and she opened the door. It stood between them like a barrier that she wanted to erase.

"Thanks again." she said. "You were right. The valentines lights were far more entertaining than some TV program."

This man of few words tipped his hat to her backing away. "Sleep tight Sheri."

She blinked. Sheri. It was the first time he called her that and it made her sound like an entirely different person. It felt right to be called something simple and pretty like Sheri.

"Night Cody." she said quietly easing into her car smiling to herself.

After he got into his truck she could tell that he was waiting for her to start her engine, then he could see that she was safely headed home.

A white hat, she thought. A good guy even though he seemed discomfited when she mentioned it to him earlier.

Again, she wondered why. But there were a thousand things she wondered about Cody and that didn't mean she would ever find an answer to any of her questions.

She drove home, seeing his headlights in her rear view mirror, although she knew that the cabin he rented near the Harrison ranch was in the opposite direction. When she pulled into her complex he went on his way and she suddenly felt as if something had been taken from her.

Something, someone, she had gotten all used to.

After parking in her garage she went inside shrugging off her coat and hanging it in the closet, the day finally catching up to her. For the first time she noticed an ache at the small of her back and she rubbed it. That plus an itching sensation on her belly dampened her mood.

Reality had set in again now that Cody wasn't there aches and pains that she never seemed to notice when he was around.

She blew out a breath going to the kitchen thinking she would prepare warm milk with cinnamon and honey before putting some cocoa and Shea butter lotion on the dry and stretched skin of her tummy.

But then she peered through her back window.

She couldn't move for a suspended instant couldn't believe what she was seeing.

Strings of lights on her picket fence glowing like a necklace of red and white beads.

She went to the sliding patio door opened it and stepped outside running her hands over her arms in the nights coolness.

Nope she hadn't been imagining things there were colored bulbs on the fence plus white heart shaped lights hanging off her roof and...

She bit her lip. There was a big red box near the sliding door decorated with a white ribbon.