Battle for His Soul by Theresa Linden

Author:Theresa Linden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: West Brothers, Catholic contemporary, Catholic fiction, Catholic series, Catholic young adult fiction, angels and demons, supernatural fiction, Christian fiction, spiritual battle, spiritual warfare
Publisher: Silver Fire Publishing
Published: 2016-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

WHAT WENT WRONG?

Jarret

Jarret took a sip of lukewarm coffee, settled back in a chair at the dining room table and gazed at Selena. He couldn’t take his eyes off her.

She looked hot in a denim skirt and a white tank top, her hair playing around her shoulders whenever she turned her head. And that smile, that flirty smile . . . Why wouldn’t she smile at him today? Had he made her mad last night? Was she suspicious about Roland? Is that why their date had ended the way it had?

She probably noticed his attention but made no show of it as she casually followed the grumpy old maid Eremita around the dining room. The two of them spoke to each other in Spanish, probably thinking he didn’t understand. They talked about the storm clouds that had been rolling in all morning, about the dirty footprints that one of the stable hands had left in Señor Juan’s study, and about what the cook was going to make for dinner. When they spoke too fast, he missed what they said. His Spanish was rusty, but he got the gist of their conversation.

After saying something Jarret didn’t catch, Selena exploded in a fit of laughter. She threw him a glance, maybe to see if he was still watching her, then whispered to Eremita. Eremita swatted Selena’s arm and continued arranging decorations on the hutch in the back of the room.

Starting to feel a little obsessive, Jarret forced himself to look away. Heavy clouds had raced into the sky, muting the sunlight and giving the landscape a surreal, reddish aura. It had rained on and off in the early morning, though all seemed dry now.

Where had he gone wrong on their date? They’d made small talk on the drive there. Then he let her pick the restaurant. He’d wanted Mexican, but she—having had home-cooked Mexican food every day—wanted something else. So they ate at a family-owned Italian restaurant with red-checkered tablecloths and stained-glass light fixtures, Frank Sinatra songs playing in the background.

At first, conversation came slow and awkward, both of them glancing at everything but each other. But it wasn’t like him to be shy, and he knew how to talk to girls. So he made himself relax and started asking her questions about herself.

She had told him she spent much of her time at the stables and knew every one of their fifteen horses. Her favorite was a buckskin quarter horse she called Blaze, short for Trail Blazer. She rode Blaze often and—he’d already guessed it—out past the boundaries of her family’s property. “Out to where the wind made the only sounds,” she’d said. “Out where the land became unpredictable.” She had climbed to the top of mesas and down into lonely canyons, once stumbling across a thin stream and a secluded little pool. She knew the names of snakes and insects, plants and cacti, and how to treat poisonous bites or a sprained ankle.

He soaked in every detail, becoming more and more infatuated.

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