Danger in the Outback (Welcome to Bunya Junction Book 5) by Nicole Flockton

Author:Nicole Flockton [Flockton, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical, Romance
ISBN: 9781961544932
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2024-04-10T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Drew looked up from where he’d been writing a note about heated flooring. “Pardon?”

Pink bloomed again on Matilda’s cheeks, tempting him to touch them like he had not long ago.

“Nothing.” She shook her head, strands from her high ponytail whipping from left to right. “It doesn’t matter.”

No, he wasn’t going to let her get away with that. “I think it does.”

Matilda sighed and opened the lid of the white box. As he’d thought and hoped, inside were two cream buns. “I asked what are we doing? This is your house, yet you’re asking me about design ideas. You’re asking my opinion on layout of the kitchen. Just now you took a passing comment of mine and hinted that the reason you’d put heated flooring in is because of me.”

Drew took a moment and processed Matilda’s words. It was true. He wanted her input and wanted to take what she liked and put it in the house, because he wanted her to share it all with him. But if he said that, would he scare her away? Would she think he was as bad as Spencer? Not that he was stalking her or sending flowers without a card, but he was thinking of a future. A future that included a family. And he was imagining it all with Matilda—a woman he’d only known for a short time.

He was aware that he still hadn’t answered her question from earlier, about how everyone was treating her differently. It was annoying that him asking the business owners to be on the lookout for Spencer had meant that they changed how they interacted with Matilda. Yet he couldn’t really be surprised about that; he’d known the minute he handed out Spencer’s picture that everyone in town would close ranks around Matilda and protect her. And they were.

“Come on, let’s go sit and eat these and we can talk.” He scooped up the box and headed into the small living room at the front of the house where the camp chairs they’d sat in previously were stationed.

For the next few minutes they were lost in their own thoughts as they ate the creamy delights. When he finished he wiped his hands on the napkins provided. He was dragging it out, because he wasn’t too sure how Matilda would take what he was about to say next.

He hadn’t got through life by being a spectator. As a police officer he’d had to dive headfirst into dangerous situations. Break up fights between families, people who had drunk too much or were high on the latest drug. This situation was completely different, but there would be no resolving it if he didn’t put it all out there.

“Before I talk about what we’re doing, I want to address what you asked me when we were standing outside.”

“Why everyone seems super concerned for me in a way they hadn’t been before?”

That was his Matilda, always getting to the point without any preamble. “Yes, that. After the flowers were delivered to you, I printed out a picture of Spencer and showed it around town.

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