A Weaver Wedding by Allison Leigh

Author:Allison Leigh [Leigh, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Category
ISBN: 9780263879704
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2009-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

T he next night, Tara sat propped in her bed and stared at the small article in the newspaper buried at the bottom of the “Nationally in Brief” page.

Trial Begins for Deuce’s Cross Leaders

She’d read all ten sentences of the article about a hundred times since that morning when Axel had silently handed over the newspaper section, but she still read them again. As if she could glean something about Sloan from a total of seventy words.Of course, there was no mention of her brother. Just the basics. That the long-awaited trial was finally beginning that day in Chicago.

Had Sloan been there? Was he safe? Would Axel at last unstick himself from her? Would she be able to go home to Chicago?

Did she even want to?

They were all questions that had churned behind her locked lips since Axel had given her the article and she’d told him, point-blank, that she didn’t want to discuss it.

Her stomach rumbled despite the chamomile tea she’d been sipping. She set aside the newspaper and snapped off the bedside light. Turning on her side, she bunched the pillow into a more comfortable shape.

It was nearly midnight. She should be sleeping.

Instead, she was still lying there trying to will away the nausea that had dogged her all day. Crackers hadn’t helped. Dry cereal that she’d snuck into her mouth when Axel wasn’t looking hadn’t helped. Tea hadn’t helped.

Laying down definitely wasn’t helping.

She sat up against the headboard and pressed her hands against the small swell of her abdomen. “Come on, baby,” she whispered. “Give your mama a break.”

But no break came. Her mind was too busy with fractured thoughts about Sloan, about Axel, about the baby. Finally, she shoved aside the covers and got up.

She silently opened her bedroom door and peered out into the hall. It was the fourth night Axel had slept on her couch. As usual, he made no sound as he slept. She padded to the other bedroom and closed the door before snapping on the task light above the larger of her two worktables.

If she wasn’t going to sleep, then she might as well get something accomplished.

At least Axel wasn’t distractingly glued to her hip.

Since that first day when he’d come to her, he hadn’t left her even for an hour. She knew word about the two of them keeping constant company—even at her shop—was spreading around town, because the traffic in her store had easily doubled. As if the curious townspeople of Weaver wanted to see for themselves that Axel Clay was not only living in sin with the shopkeeper, but that he was so smitten he could even be found in her shop dusting shelves and running the register.

To her, Axel was a maddening distraction and not just because of the pregnancy she was keeping from him.

She slid out several trays of beads and stones and with no real plan in mind began arranging them on a specially grooved, felt-covered board. Eventually, the simple act of arranging and

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