Fiery Passion by Dawn Luedecke

Author:Dawn Luedecke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-05-07T17:54:36+00:00

Chapter 11

The sun began to slip over the horizon and bring everything to life. Of course most of what Victoria could usually see was blocked out by the ever-looming fire plume. She raised her small cup of coffee to her lips and watched the mill yard from her office window as she allowed the blessed elixir to give her false hopes of a happy morning.

After Wall left her office a few evenings before, she’d felt better; only to have Aunt June enter with the news that Beth and Carrie were missing and Garrett and Simon had taken horses to go back up the mountain to find them.

So Victoria watched all day yesterday and today.

She studied the roads to the west for her father. The tracks to Seattle for her mother, and the trail leading up the mountain for her men and the two women who’d become friends to her. Perhaps the only friends she’d ever had.

Growing up, she’d maintained a brother and sisterly relationship with Garrett in London. They stuck together out of necessity, being the only Americans around. When she returned, the other women thought her too haughty to befriend, and perhaps she had been.

But last year, at the lumber camp, she’d experienced something she never had before, and then after she’d been a part of bringing Garrett and Beth together. Of course, they didn’t really see one another other than the occasional social event, but that was neither here nor there. They were the only women on earth who would give Victoria even half a care when in the same room. Thus, she considered them her friends. She dreaded the moment a rider would return to tell her the men and women had died in the wretched fire.

Luckily, she didn’t have to.

Only moments ago the men had returned with the women, and Garrett shuffled them off to town on the train while Simon had marched straight in here to quit. He quoted love, family, and security as his reasons, and she couldn’t fault him for that.

What she wouldn’t give to find that in her life. She’d found something with Wall, but she didn’t know if it was love. It was real and raw, but what she felt with him was bewildering. She could never tell if he was going to let her lead or take over. She had a feeling he relented to her leadership, but wanted to be the one to take charge. And what did he want? Could she truly love a man who didn’t show who he really was? His true self.

He gave her a calm she never felt. They had a connection she would never deny, and she didn’t regret a single moment they shared, but she didn’t love him. Not the way Simon had professed to love Carrie just now in her office.

A knock sounded and she turned as Wall entered as though she’d conjured him up with her thoughts. He was handsome, in a rugged sort of way.

“Did you hear about the fire’s progress?”

“Uh, yes.

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