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Time seem to fly by and after they had completed mucking the stalls, Dallas wiped his brow. Lucky for both Knot and Jules, the vet arrived, announcing their timely move of the pregnant mare back in.

"I think it'll do just fine, pretty little Jules." He grinned as he took the tools from them and put them away. "Now lets see if its high noon." He left the vet and the other ranch hands to finish the job, ushering Knot and Jules out. Once they were outside, he shielded his eyes, placing eyes on the placement of the sun and then whistled.

"Just in time for a bath and dinner." He headed over to the ranch house, and the closer they got, the richer the smell of bbq'd and smoked meat got. Before he left though, he turned on cowboy booted heel and took both Jules and Knot's hand in his own gently.

"There's some aloe in the kitchen, cut a leaf open and it'll help with the skin for tomorrow." He smiled at Jules, "Got your nice soft skin working eh babe?" To Knot, he gave less flirt. "Knot you're gonna need gloves if you keep working."

He let both of their hands go. "Baths are upstairs, you both can probably take one. Borrow a T-shirt...." He twinkled at them, "I love to see women in my clothes." Instead of going for a bath, he went where the hose was hooked up and turned it on, running cool water over his face and body.

"Gonna put the vegetables on to grill." He grunted, "Help yourself to beer or drinks in the fridge." Said fridge was in the worst part of the house.....the unfinished kitchen.

Her eyebrow rose at Dallas's implications as she watched the burly man amble off towards the hose. Aloe would help, he wasn't wrong but at the same time she knew her fingers and palms were in for a long, painful recovery after all the manual labor she'd been talked into doing for the day.

Jules' attention was drawn away from the cowboy at Knot's comment, blue eyes turning to exchange glances with the other girl.

"He'd probably find a skeleton key, the pig."

Still, she grinned as they made their way into the house, first to the kitchen to retrieve both the aloe and water (beer after a long day's work did not seem fitting to the nurse) before they made their way up the stairs together.

Towels and shirts were retrieved before they decided to peek in at the varying bathrooms on the second floor. The master bathroom appeared the largest and provided an even more delicious excuse to taunt the homeowner with as the girls shuffled in. There was a giant spa bath and an equally large walk-in shower, both soon utilized by the grinning women... behind the locked bathroom door, of course.

By the time she'd finished her bath, her stomach was rumbling to the point of embarrassment. The growls only grew louder when the waft of barbecued meat found her nostrils, Jules doing her best to distract herself by brushing out her wet hair prior to pulling it back into the ponytail style she'd initially taken. The old shirt she'd found in one of the drawers was far too large for her petite frame so the hem had been collected, the excess fabric tied into a knot right below her navel. Her jeans were reapplied, Jules only making her way out of the bathroom when her companion was also ready because God only knew that it would take two against one to get Jimmy Dallas to behave.

"Next time he sends you out for me, we need to be a little more clear on his intentions of why he wants me on his ranch."

Bare feet made their way down the stairs, the older woman glancing back to offer the younger woman a grin.