Enduring Love by Kelsey Browning

Author:Kelsey Browning [Browning, Kelsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07BNRF5Q7
Publisher: Steele Ridge LLC
Published: 2018-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

6

It was o’dark thirty, and Joan was sitting on the steps of Eddy’s cabin with two go-cups of coffee when the front door quietly opened behind her.

“Joanie,” he sighed, sending a shiver of awareness over her skin. “You know coming to the cabin isn’t safe. What are you doing here?”

She picked up a cup and offered it to him. “Starbucks doesn’t deliver, but I do.”

A sly expression touched his eyes, and he smiled as he took the coffee. He leaned in to give her a soft kiss, almost melting Joan’s resolve to stick her nose in his business today. Almost. When he drew back, he whispered, “What else do you deliver?”

“This morning? Just coffee and a sidekick. Figured you’d need it after your late-night visit to Barron’s Park. You forget our niece loves us. She was worried about you and called me this morning.”

His smile whooshed away faster than she could blink, and he scanned the tree line the way she’d seen him do hundreds of times before. “You should come inside. Better yet, you should go home.”

“Nope.”

“Reid’s got state-of-the-art security there and I only have . . . What did you say?”

“Uh-uh. No, sir. Not happening.”

“Dammit, Joanie—”

“We may have lived in separate houses for the better part of two decades, but I know you, Eddy Steele. If you believe Henry McKay is skulking around Steele Ridge, then you’re planning to do something about it.”

“I don’t think it. I know.”

Now it was her turn to go blank. “What?”

Eddy grabbed her hand and pulled her to her feet. “Inside. I feel like the trees have eyes today.”

This time, her shiver wasn’t from awareness of the man she’d loved since she was a young woman, it was a byproduct of fear. Inside, she sat on the couch that would make a comfy spot to spend Saturday afternoons snuggling with Eddy. Assuming he would ever voluntarily allow her in his cabin.

She loved Tupelo Hill, but getting away from her own home should be way easier with grown kids. However it seemed like someone was always parading through her house. As much as she loved her brood, there were times when it would be nice to have the privacy Eddy enjoyed.

He sat in the recliner on her left and propped his elbows on his knees, letting his steepled fingers support his chin. “McKay paid me a little visit last night after I left your place.”

His stealthy departure was something she’d planned to take him to task for this morning, but Joan found she didn’t have the gumption in light of this new information about Henry. She glanced around, now understanding Eddy’s unease. “He could have killed you.”

“Not yet. He wants something too much to do that.” His eyes closed, but not before Joan saw the pain in them. “He wants to meet Kris.”

“Oh, no.” She grabbed his hands, forcing him to open his eyes. “That will destroy her. She’s a happy young woman. Sometimes secrets protect people.” Wasn’t that why she and Eddy had kept so many over the years?

“No, sweetheart, secrets can only do that for so long.

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