Rodeo wasn't sure he believed her. Sure, it didn't seem exactly unlike his sister to go for a man of power, considering how pragmatic and intelligent she'd always been, but he doubted that the decision had anything to do with love. Especially with how cold and stony she seemed, he had to doubt that she felt much of anything at all, especially not for Cail.
"I ain't sure about that," he said, a little darkly. "I mean, you know how I was with girls. All false promises." He was sure that he had nearly driven poor Adelaide mad with all of the juggling he did between the various girls he fooled around with back home-- so many nights, one of them would suspect he was out with another girl and come looking for him, pounding on the trailer door and wailing. He broke a lot of hearts, and felt no remorse for a single tear shed on that doorstep.