Craving My British Cowboy novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Saddle
He took me to the tack room after dark, with a lantern and a canvas kit bag.
"I haven't opened this in a year," Rex said.
The bag sat on a trunk between a halter and a rotten bridle.
He undid the buckles, and drew out a saddle wrapped in oilcloth.
It was not a Western saddle.
It was an English one, the leather the color of strong tea, with the flaps worn pale where a woman's knees had gripped them.
Under the cantle, on a small brass plate, someone had engraved C. CAREW.
"Her maiden name," he said. "She wouldn't ride under his."
I did not touch it.
He ran his thumb along the seat, over a stitched repair she must have done herself.
"I carried this on my knees from Heathrow to Austin," he said. "I've never sat in it. I rode Orville's old stock saddle fifteen years, and kept this under a tarp like a coffin."
"It's not a coffin."
"What is it, then?"
"A saddle," I said. "Somebody left it to you."
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