Calamity Jayne Heads West by Kathleen Bacus

Author:Kathleen Bacus
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co.
Published: 2008-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

I managed to replace Aunt Kay’s car—if not the petrol I’d used—without anyone being the wiser. Well, ex-cept for Sophie, that is. It’s kind of hard to crawl into one-half of a sofa bed without rousing the occupant of the other half.

“So? Did you take that leap of faith?” Sophie asked. “Or maybe I should say jump of faith, as in jumping the handsome ranger’s bones,” she added. “And I warn you, I want details.”

I pulled the covers up to my neck and sighed. “You ever heard, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak?” I asked. “Well, change that to ‘the spirit was willing but the flesh was wrinkled’ and that about sums up this night’s romantic activities. And trust me on this one, Sophie, if you want to avoid disturbing images in your head for the rest of your days, you don’t want the details.”

She sniffed. “Do I smell chlorine?”

“Go to sleep, Sophie,” I said. I closed my eyes anddreamed of silk jammies, wet, naked chests, and phallus-shaped hat hooks.

It seemed like only minutes later when someone tugged on my arm. “You awake? You need to get out of this bed and get movin’.”

I rolled over. “I swear I won’t tell a soul, Joe,” I mum-bled. “It’s our little secret.”

“Secret? What secret? Is Joe keepin’ secrets fromme?”

The pulling on my arm became vigorous shaking. I opened one protesting eyeball. My grandma stood over me.

“Huh?”

“You said you and Joe were keeping secrets. Is he having a last fling before the wedding?” she asked.

That got my other eye open. I so didn’t want the dis-tinction of being Joltin’ Joe’s final fling.

“Of course not,” I said, trying to figure out what lit-tle fib might pacify her.

“Then what’s the secret?”

“It wouldn’t be a secret if I told you, would it?” I said, putting the covers aside and swinging my feet over the side of the bed.

She got a gleam in her eye.

“It’s a secret wedding gift, isn’t it?” she said. “I knew it. The sweet, sweet man.”

I managed a weak smile. Crap. I hoped Joe had thought about a wedding gift for his hellion bride.

I put a hand to my lips. “Shhh!” I said.

“You better get going. The rest of us are almost ready,” she said.

“Ready for what?” I asked.

“Wedding dress shopping. I need a new one, re-member? We’re going down to Sedona. Sophie says there are lots of fancy-shmancy boutiques down there. I’m thinkin’ this may be the last wedding dress I’ll buy,and I figure it’s okay to splurge.” She looked at me. “What do you think?”

I stood and gave her a hug. “Go for it, Gram,” I said, squeezing her shoulders.

She patted my back. “You’re a good girl, Tressa Jayne,” she said. “Don’t know diddly about men, but a good girl. Maybe too good.”

“Thanks, Gram,” I said. “I love you, too.” I padded over to my suitcase, spotted my backpack, and turned to Gram. “You said you were going to Sedona.”

She nodded. “We’re taking Ben’s car. It’ll hold all of us.

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