Big Sky Grooms by Carolyn Davidson

Author:Carolyn Davidson [Davidson, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373834914
Publisher: Harlequin Sales Corp (Mm)
Published: 2001-05-14T23:00:00+00:00

WITH THE PLUMBING being installed and the last of the walls ready to be painted or papered, Lizzy was busy from morning to night, with scarcely time to think. She had done all the thinking she could afford to do once she’d realized what had happened—that she had gone and fallen in love with a man who thought of her as—

She didn’t know what he thought of her. As a saloon girl? A paid employee? A charity case?

She was all of the above to one degree or another.

She had to believe Cicero would come back for her any day now, she simply had to. He would go directly to the Double Deuce, and Cam would tell him where to find her, and then he would come and take her home.

Or at least, take her somewhere far, far away, so that they could start over again.

Violet Gibson was a godsend. Not only did she bring out a catalog for Lizzy to immerse herself in during the long, lonely nights with only Ruby for company, but she taught her things. Useful things, such as soaking the beans and leaving off the salt until the last hour of cooking. She taught her how to test the oven for biscuits by holding her hand in the open door until she felt her fingernails begin to draw. If it happened too quickly, the fire was too hot. Not quickly enough, and her round little blobs would be dry inside and as hard as chalk. Perhaps she could find work as a cook when Cicero returned for her and they moved on to another town.

“We could go ahead and order the curtain rods,” she suggested as the two women worked side by side in the kitchen after the men had eaten and gone back to their various tasks.

“Might as well order the curtain material while we’re at it. If I know Mr. Will, and I’ve knowed him since he was a young scamp, he’ll not want to mess with picking out all the foofaraws.”

Foofaraws, Lizzy had come to realize, meant anything that involved style, color or pattern. Which included walls, rugs, furniture and draperies. “Maybe we should wait. If he decides to marry, then his wife will want to choose, don’t you think?”

Violet Gibson shot her an odd look and stacked the plain white crockery plates back inside the cabinet. “I reckon,” she allowed. “Leastwise, we can get on with washing the rest of the windows and waxing the woodwork.”

Which is what they did. Lizzy felt a restlessness that lent her energy. The house was as clean as they could make it until the floors and the walls were finished, and still she needed to be doing something.

Caught up in her daydream, Lizzy didn’t know when Mrs. Gibson left to go home. She wasn’t aware that outside, the hammering had stopped while the men waited for a lone rider to join them. The first hint she had that someone had arrived was when Ruby lifted her head, flapped her tail and looked expectantly toward the door.

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