Carried Away (Montana Miracles Book 1) by Grace Walton

Author:Grace Walton [Walton, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CleanHeart Publishing
Published: 2013-12-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Grace grunted in pain as she slowly stood up. Carrie could smell the rich odor of the meat Grace was frying in a heavy black pan over the fire. Now the old woman’s gnarled hands carefully wrapped a piece of flour sack turned kitchen towel around the tin plate of hot food.

“I’m going over to the corn crib to see if they’ll let me give Black Knife some supper.”

Carrie nodded listlessly. She looked out of the cabin’s window. Pristine white snow was drifting down to the muddy street. For a few seconds she thought the little ramshackle village was beautiful. But then she remembered why she was here. Suddenly the muddy road looked just as nasty as it had when she’d been hauled through it that first awful day.

She’d been waiting all afternoon for the helicopter Sam had promised. He’d come back around two o’clock. The bad news was the weather conditions were making it too hard for the copter to fly. It might be tomorrow before they got there. Tomorrow, or the next day, it didn’t matter. Time was relative really. What was waiting for her back in Burnt Hickory anyway, a media feeding frenzy? She wondered with a smirk how the feds were dealing with that.

Now if her agent Sid was working it, well he could turn anything bad into good copy. But Sid was on the West Coast. She hadn’t been able to contact him in 4 years now. She’d done a web search on his name at the public library once. All the entries pointed to the fact that he’d forgotten her, written her off, and moved on to other big name clients. Some of them were pretty impressive. Well, that was Sid. He always landed on his feet.

She sure could have used his expertise now. It was a given that she’d be moved again. Relocated, they liked to call it. Another city, another name, another career, another house, it hurt to think about it all. Once she’d loved that gypsy lifestyle. Now she just wanted to go somewhere nobody knew her, buy a nice little house, and stay in one place for the rest of her life. It wasn’t going to happen though.

Even after the trial, assuming she lived long enough to testify, she’d have to keep moving. Drug Lords had long memories and they weren’t forgiving. But, she reminded herself. You chose this, it wasn’t thrust upon you. You chose it. When her Dad had been murdered, she could have cut her losses and walked away. But she didn’t. So now she had to live with the consequences of her decisions, or die with them. Either way, she’d done the choosing. She was determined to see it through.

Grace’s opening of the door brought in a few swirling snowflakes. They soon melted into wet patches on the floor of the cabin. The plate of food was still in her hand.

“Well, your beau won’t need this, I guess?”

“What?”

“He’s gone.”

“Gone?”

“Yep, boys guarding the front didn’t even know it till they opened the door for me to pass him the food.

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