An Agent for Ulyssa by Patricia PacJac Carroll

Author:Patricia PacJac Carroll [Carroll, Patricia PacJac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PacJac Publishing
Published: 2020-02-07T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Ulyssa watched Cade ride away. What was happening to her? She didn’t like men. At all. But he had charmed his way into her heart. She would have to guard against that. Well, she probably wouldn’t see him again.

Mr. Allred didn’t like the man, and that was good enough for her. Although when she thought about Cade, she couldn’t get any sense that he was bad. To Cade’s credit, she didn’t think he was a bit like Sam.

Rosalie came from the house. “He gone?”

“Yes.”

Rosalie looked at her. “He has charmed you just like he charmed Rusty. Beware of him. Mr. Roy doesn’t like that man, and I trust Mr. Roy.”

Ulyssa smiled at the woman. “Thank you, Rosalie. I have no intention of being swept off my feet by Cade Monroe. Besides, he loves Rusty, doesn’t he?”

Rosalie nodded. “He say, he does. But I don’t know. Something not right between them. That what Mr. Roy sense, too.”

“Has Cade broken the law?”

She shook her head. “No, I think he is good man, but he doesn’t belong on this ranch. Not with Miss Rusty.”

“I see. Thank you for the lemonade.”

Rosalie nodded but left with a worried frown.

Ulyssa sat back in the chair and picked up the book. So, Elizabeth Bennet had problems, too. Maybe she had solutions. After all, Ulyssa had told Cade that novels had merit. She tried to get into the story, but her own life’s struggles made it impossible for her to read.

Looking at the sky, Ulyssa leaned back in the chair. The case had sounded so simple. Now, she was pretending to be married to Sam, who she disliked immensely. And the very man she was to dissuade Rusty from marrying, she was falling for.

Poor Rusty. It must be challenging to be in love with a man that your father won’t allow into the house. Then again, Mr. Allred was protecting the empire he’d built. And she bet that Cade wasn’t the only man with eyes on Rusty and the ranch that would come with her.

She closed the book. “After this case, I could write my own book.” She grinned at her thought. Maybe that was something she should do. Being a Pinkerton was weighing on her. She already had a harsh attitude, and dealing with the worst of humanity wasn’t helping.

Seeing Rusty and the carefree innocence of the girl had chipped at the hard shell around her own heart. Although they were close in age, Rusty looked at life with wonder and joy while Ulyssa saw things through a jaded bitterness.

Ulyssa saw deceit and danger wherever she looked. Although with the life she’d been handed, she came by it honestly. She’d seen nothing but the backhand of abuse from the few men in her life.

Actually, Sam, even though he’d been an outlaw, had treated her better than the few men she’d considered marriage material. One had been shot and killed in front of her and left her with conflicting thoughts of sorrow and relief.

The other one had

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