Alaskan Sweethearts by Janet Tronstad

Author:Janet Tronstad [Tronstad, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780373879144
Barnesnoble:
Goodreads: 21942752
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Hunter finished putting the last pole into the ground for the swing set. He’d paused at one point and scooped up a handful of the dirt that lay near him. He let the coarse gray soil run through his fingers. Scarlett would have a hard time growing the kind of lawn she wanted in all this alkali. It was more suited to cactus than any kind of grass, even the sturdy buffalo grass. Not that it was the most popular choice for a lawn. Maybe he’d come over and plow some natural fertilizer into the ground around the house when he came back from his trip.

It would only be neighborly to build the soil up, he told himself as he lay on the ground and closed his eyes. The late-afternoon sun was hitting him at a comfortable slant and he was lazy after eating Sunday dinner at the café. The Engers really knew how to put on a spread. A man’s life didn’t get much better than moments like this, Hunter told himself.

He’d already called the airlines and bought a ticket for his flight tomorrow. They still had a few seats left and he’d been able to get one in the same row as Scarlett and Joey. Hunter had been surprised by how long the journey would take. A few hours to fly from Billings to Seattle. Then three or four hours from Seattle to Anchorage. Then a short flight to Nome—and that was if the plane didn’t have to fly up to Kotzebue as it often did. The airline clerk had obligingly told him Kotzebue was a small town of 3,000 people that was half native-fishing-village and half tourist-site, all sitting on a gravel spit at the end of the Baldwin Peninsula. People liked taking the detour up there, the clerk assured him, because the plane crossed the Arctic Circle to get to Kotzebue before circling back south to land in Nome. Continuing passengers didn’t get off the plane there, but they had at least flown over the Arctic Circle—something the clerk seemed to think was pretty exciting.

It would take almost a full day’s flying, though. They’d take the red-eye from Seattle to Anchorage and fly to Nome on Tuesday morning. No wonder Scarlett had refused to fly back without doing what she’d come to do, he thought as he lay there. It ate up a lot of time.

Scarlett had tried to gently discourage him from making the trip when he’d joked about taking his winter coat, but he was set on going. He’d look out for her interests even if she didn’t think she needed him. Besides, he’d lived through enough Montana blizzards not to be reluctant to head up to Alaska even if it had been in the middle of winter instead of the middle of August. From all he could figure, the days hadn’t even started to shorten yet. Besides, he wanted to know, once and for all, what his grandfather was up to in this latest deal.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.