Covenant Hall by Kathryn R. Wall

Author:Kathryn R. Wall
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312375355
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

When I awoke, the sun had just begun to streak the darkness out over the ocean. I lay wrapped in Red’s arms, my head nestled against his shoulder. Even before, when he’d all but officially moved in after Christmas, there hadn’t been many mornings when he wasn’t gone by the time I woke up. I sighed contentedly, savoring the warmth of his body.

I disentangled my left hand and squinted into the dark, turning my fingers in different directions in an effort to capture the sparkle of my engagement ring. After dinner the night before—delightfully postponed for a couple of hours—I’d retrieved it from the floor safe. In the great room, Red had dropped to one knee and ceremoniously slid it onto my damaged ring finger. I smiled into the lightening room. “God’s in his heaven—All’s right with the world,” I thought. Robert Browning. Pippa Passes. Two points.

I snuggled back down under the duvet. Red mumbled something unintelligible and gathered me closer.

I must have dropped back to sleep, because the sound of the shower across the hall roused me for the second time. That and Red’s slightly off-key bellowing of “Yellow Submarine.” A diehard Beatles fan, he knew the lyrics to every song they’d ever recorded. I smiled and kicked off the covers.

Half an hour later we faced each other across the breakfast table in the kitchen, downing eggs and shuffling sections of the Island Packet back and forth. I’d asked Red the night before if he wanted to go home and change, but he sheepishly admitted that he’d never taken his clothes out of the Bronco. In a matter of a few minutes, everything was back in place as if our brief breakup had never happened.

I checked my watch. “Time to get rolling.”

I carried plates and cups to the sink, and Red stacked them in the dishwasher.

“How do you think Erik’s going to react?” he asked without looking at me.

“He’ll be fine. The biggest problem is where you’re going to sit. We only have two desks. And no room for another one.”

He waved off my concern. “I don’t need a desk. If I’m going to be any help to you, it isn’t going to happen staring at a computer. Let me do the legwork. I’ve built up a lot of connections over the years. Time to put them to good use.”

I gathered up my bag and a light blazer. “We should take two cars, don’t you think?”

“Absolutely. If I have to go chasing down leads, I don’t want to leave you stranded.”

I opened the door to the garage and paused. “You sure you’re okay with this? Working for me, I mean? We don’t always see eye to eye on things.”

He gripped my shoulders and kissed me soundly. “That’s what makes life with you so interesting, sweetheart.” He stepped back and grinned. “Come on, let’s get going. I hear the boss can be a real terror if you’re late for work.”

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