Caden's Secret: Smokey Mountain Dragons by Jadyn Chase

Author:Jadyn Chase [Chase, Jadyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-04T16:00:00+00:00

9

Caroline

Margaret folded my uniform pants and smoothed out the wrinkles before she laid them on the bed. She picked up my shirt and shook it out before she folded that, too. “I can’t believe you’re leaving tomorrow. It seems like no time at all since you came.”

“It is no time at all,” I murmured. “It’s less than two weeks and I was asleep for the first two days.”

She sighed and stacked my folded shirt on top of the pants. “Well, I suppose it’s for the best. Morris will be happy to get you back. I know that. He stopped me on the street to double and triple check that you really were coming back tomorrow.”

I stared down at my hands in my lap. The Kellys gave me clean jeans and a t-shirt and sweater to wear while Margaret laundered my uniform. For some reason, I never put it back on.

In my two weeks on Smokey Ridge, I settled into an easy rhythm helping out around the house in between resting my head. Now, when I sat on my bed, I couldn’t bring myself to accept I was really leaving.

This place got into my blood somehow. It soothed me into a fantasy world where modern society outside it didn’t exist. I could stay here forever and be happy—all except for Caden.

He said he was in love with me. What was I supposed to do with that? How could he fall in love with me after a handful of encounters—not even a handful?

Yet it all made perfect sense. I knew when he kissed me that he felt that way. I didn’t put it into words, but that kiss couldn’t possibly mean anything else. The truth was I felt it, too. That’s why I didn’t stop him from kissing me. I wanted him to. I probably would have done it myself if I had thought of it first.

Well, no, I probably wouldn’t have, but you get my drift. I wanted to kiss him. I felt the same connection to him. That kiss fit into some overarching pattern. It represented the culmination of everything that happened since I first set foot in these woods.

On second thought, it couldn’t be the culmination of anything because it was only the beginning—or what? How could it be a beginning when I was about to leave here?

I never told anybody what Caden said to me. I didn’t have to. They all already knew. Every time I looked into their eyes, I read the truth. Caden’s father Xavier, his mother Margaret, his brother Christian, his cousin Archer, his uncle Andrew—they all knew long before I did.

This explained so much about why they acted the way they did, why they kept that invisible wall between me and them. Only Margaret really came near me or acted like I was a real person. None of the others ever even really talked to me. They certainly never tried to get to know me. Why should they when I was only going to leave?

“There you go, darling.

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