Eternity - Jude Deveraux by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

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Carrie awoke with a smile. She was warm and dry, and she knew that Tem was safe beside her, and, too, there was a warm hand on her cheek. With her eyes still closed, she turned toward the hand.

"Carrie," Josh whispered, and she slowly opened her eyes. He was dressed and kneeling beside her, touching her. It was cold in the cave, and although the rain had stopped, it was still dark outside. When she smiled at him, he moved back from her abruptly.

"I don't bite," she said dreamily, then raised her bare arm out of the blanket. "Is everything all right?"

"I have to find the searchers and tell them Tem is safe."

Carrie's eyes opened wide at that. "I forgot all about them. Do you think they've been looking all night?"

"If I know my brother, he didn't go into town until it stopped raining. He wouldn't get himself wet merely because a child was lost."

Carrie gaped at him in disbelief, but Josh's face showed that he wasn't going to answer the questions that ran through her mind. She'd already found out that he didn't answer questions about his brother.

"I want you to stay here with Tem, and I'll come back for you after I've found the searchers." He hesitated. "Will you do that?"

She laughed. "I obey when the orders are worth obeying."

He gave her a little smile. "When your brothers are captaining their ships and the sailors disobey because they don't think the orders are worth obeying, what do your brothers do?"

She gave him a look of mock innocence. "You don't expect me to know what goes on on a man's ship, do you? I think I might be shocked to the very depths of my soul if I were to be told something like that."

When Josh grinned at her, a lovely, warm grin that showed his fine white teeth, Carrie thought she might swoon at the sight of him. She was sure that there was no better-looking man on earth than Mr. Joshua Greene. She lifted herself onto her elbows. "Josh," she began, "do you think—"

He put his fingertips to her lips to silence her, then drew back as though he'd been burned. "Wait here and keep Tem warm."

She nodded at him, and he was gone.

When Carrie got up to dress, she saw that before he'd left, while she and Tem were still asleep, Josh had raked the fire and put more wood on it. He had filled the coffeepot with water and tea and set it to boil. As Carrie poured herself a mug of tea, she smiled. He may not be a great farmer, but he knew how to take care of people and he knew how to climb up and down ropes in the middle of a storm and he knew how to ride—and he knew how to love.

"I could stand a little of that love," she said out loud, as she stood up and went to the mouth of the cave to look out at the dawning of the day.

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