Claudia Dain by A Kiss To Die For

Author:A Kiss To Die For
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

"He's never talked to me like that before. I wish you could have been there to hear it."

Sarah smiled as she swept the floor, "I wish I had."

"In all the years I've known him, he's always been polite, attentive, considerate," Nell said, wiping down the bread board.

"Ignored," Sarah summed up.

"I am a married woman," Nell snapped.

"You sure about that? Tim Ross could be dead five years now, hell, how long's he been gone? Ten? Fifteen? He could have died the day he rode out for the last time. I'd say you're single."

"Sarah! Watch your mouth!" Nell looked guiltily out the kitchen window to where Miss Daphne was watering her morning glories by the back fence. Too far for her to hear what went on in the kitchen. "How long you been cussing?"

"Since I figured out that I'm a single woman, too. My man's been gone about seven years and I'm just starting to think that makes me about as unmarried as a woman can get."

"I think it's because you've been talking to Jack Skull."

"That, too." Sarah grinned.

"Everything's different around here since he came to town," Nell said, hanging up the dish towel next to the stove.

"I'd have to agree," Sarah said. "Bill's paid more court to Anne in the last week than he has in the previous month. And then there's the way Charles has been acting, if what you say is true...."

"Oh, it's the truth, believe me. I haven't been talked down to like that by a man since, well, since..."

"Since Tim was around?"

"I'd rather not discuss it," Nell said a little stiffly.

"I don't blame you," Sarah said, slipping an arm around her sister's waist and giving her a quick hug. "Let those memories stay dead, as dead as I hope he is."

"That's not a very nice thing to say."

"Maybe not, but it's the truth and I felt like saying it. For once."

"What's the matter with everyone lately?" Nell sighed, frowning. "First Anne and then Charles and now you."

"We could blame Jack." Sarah grinned, putting away her broom and taking off her apron. "Or we could thank him."

"Thank him? What for? I know it's because of him that Anne's got her back up and Charles near bit my head off."

"And for the first time in years, you're looking at him twice. Now, I do think Jack's too wild for Anne. I meant that, but if he's the one who put a touch of bite in Charles, then maybe it's a good thing he came to town."

"I am not the least bit interested in Charles Lane," Nell said, her posture stiff and forbidding.

"Well, then, in the spirit of all this free-talking that's been happening around here, you might just want to tell him that."

Nell faced her sister, her arms crossed and her chin up.

"I just might."

Anne walked into the middle of it, when her mother was as fit to fuss as she'd ever seen her. Anne had about had the fight kissed out of her and was not eager to renew the battle concerning her interest in Jack Scullard.

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