Strength Under Fire – Excerpt 2

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Colin Gallagher felt a huge, dark burden lift off his
shoulders as he double-checked his flatbed load. The
antique John Deere tractor was on board, the disc and
other plows, plus a metal box filled with farm tools that
this woman, Dana Scott, would need.

Earlier, Chase had come and gotten him out of one of
the barns and told him his wish had been granted: He was
assigning him to a small valley farm that had just been
bought by a woman, that would be low stress compared
to being around Three Bars. Mary had hired her to become
her produce resource for the grocery store, and she asked
that he assign a wrangler to help her. Colin jumped at the
chance. He hated waking up at night, screaming, and then
startling the other wranglers awake, as well. His PTSD was
severe, and he was desperate to stop what was happening,
but he couldn’t.

Fortunately, Chase had been in the military and understood.

They were working on ten houses that would start
to be built for the wranglers with families and after those
were completed, for the single wranglers.. Until then, the
single male wranglers all slept in the bunkhouse. The
women wranglers had a separate bunkhouse.

He had been ready to quit because he was causing
major sleep deprivation for the rest of the hands, until
Chase had come by with this new assignment.
It felt as if life were being breathed back into him as
he slowly walked around the flatbed, one more time
checking the chains that held the tractor in place on it, as
well as the wide, thick nylon straps across the other items.