Cherished (Cutter's Creek Book 9) by Vivi Holt & Cutter's Creek

Author:Vivi Holt & Cutter's Creek [Holt, Vivi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-05T23:00:00+00:00

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Clifford left Cheyenne the next day, anxious to discharge his duty in Bozeman and get back to Cutter’s Creek. Pee-wee Hungerford rode ahead of him on a bay nag of a gelding whose head was already drooping low, even though they’d only been on the road a few hours. He hoped the animal would make it all the way to Bozeman. Pee-wee’s wide shoulders sagged too, and he rocked from side to side with each step the horse took.

Tilly pranced and jogged, eager to stretch her legs, and he patted her neck. Sorry, not today, girl. Today we have to plod, since I doubt this bay could gallop if he tried.

He’d tried not to think about Camilla on the ride south and east, but now that he’d lost his lead on Craddock’s fellow outlaws, he could think of nothing else. Why hadn’t he said something to her when he’d had the chance? Now it was too late. She might well be engaged before he got home, and then he’d have to live with the outcome of his silence the rest of his life.

That is, if he stayed in town – he still wasn’t resolved on it yet. If he did, he’d have to see her and her family at church, Bible studies, dances, picnics … every community event for the foreseeable future. If he moved on, though, he’d be leaving behind his entire life – not that it amounted to much when he thought about it, but it was all he had.

He sighed and tipped his hat back on his head with one finger. He’d been thinking a lot lately about his life, and what he was doing with it.

What was he doing with it? He had friends – everyone in town, really – but none of them were close. He’d never allowed himself to get too close to anyone. He spent so much of his time working, which in Cutter’s Creek was a solitary affair – there wasn’t enough crime to rate a deputy. Almost every other man in town his age was married; most had brought their wives west with them. They were busy with their families, and most of the unmarried females were still young girls attending school.

Clifford’s thoughts returned to Camilla Brown, wondering what she was doing, what she thought of him – if she thought of him at all. Was she engaged yet? Was she happy? Of course she was happy. He remembered her laugh in the still night when he’d caught sight of them from his porch, returning from their Bible study group to the Todds’. She had the look of a woman in love, not that he knew much about that.

Every fiber of his being tensed at the thought of never kissing her lips again, never holding her in his arms. Their kiss had taken his breath away. Her scent, the soft feel of her lips beneath his, the heaving of her chest as she gasped for breath once they parted … he couldn’t wipe the memories from his thoughts.

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