Great news! We’ve finally selected a bachelor for Mr. Cowboy, our reality dating show! As y’all know, we lost Wade Cruz last year to one of our local women (who always get first dibs, you understand.) However, I never dreamed Sean Henderson would finally step up and agree to be our first victim Mr. Cowboy. He’s a confirmed bachelor, that one, but I know exactly why. And also, that it’s my job to fix this mess. Two birds with one stone, you see.
More than a decade ago, I thought I was doing the right thing for someone I loved dearly. No one could blame me. With hindsight being twenty-twenty, I do now see I’ve been instrumental in Sean’s bachelorhood. But his days are numbered, yes, they are. By the time we’re done here, Sean will be happily in love and engaged. We’ll have more women in Stone Ridge and bring one back who got away. But that’s another story.
Folks, this rancher played right into my hands. All because he has his own obsession with saving every wild horse in the west. Like a magician with a slight of hand, while he was over there looking at one thing, I’ve singlehandedly engineered his happily ever after. This is true or my name isn’t Beulah Mae Hayes.
You are welcome, Sean Henderson!
Please don’t be too stupid to see who is right in front of you.
~ Beulah Hayes, President of SORROW (Society of Reasonable, Respectable, Orderly Women) and keeper of the Men of Stone Ridge bible, tenth edition. ~