Healing the Hooligan by Sara Jolene

Author:Sara Jolene [Jolene, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

Dutch couldn’t believe his luck. Yeah, he’d been blown up, but meeting Rachel had made it all worth it. He sat across from her at a small table in Graham’s Grub and watched, mesmerized as she spoke with Sophia. He nodded at Otto, who nodded back. Dutch was confused as to why he wasn’t right beside his wife. He watched the man closely. His eyes were darting all around the room, watching the two doors most often. Otto was uneasy, waiting and watching for something or someone.

Dutch slid out of his chair. “Excuse me, ladies.” He got up with both of them watching him take every step over to where Otto was.

“What is it?”

Otto shook his head. “Nothin’ to worry about.”

Dutch turned back to where the ladies were still talking at the table. “I doubt that. I’ve never seen you more than a few steps from her side. Now you suddenly feel like you need to take measure of the entire room? What is it? What are you waiting for, or better yet who?”

Otto shook his head again, but this time he tilted it down. Dutch knew he had him. He was ready to spill. “Someone tried to blow me up a few days ago. It would be mighty helpful if all the folks in town helped each other out. Maybe we could find out who’s doing these things.”

Otto picked his head back up, but his eyes went straight to his wife. She had taken the seat that Dutch had vacated, and she and Rachel were gossiping away. He looked to both the doors then. “It’s probably nothing.”

Dutch nodded. “Probably, but why not share in case it isn’t? Things have been changing in Creede.”

“Right they have.” Otto looked back to his wife again. The longing Dutch saw there was palpable. He could feel the love Otto had for Sophia. It made his bones ache. He wanted that. He looked to Rachel. She certainly got his heart racing, even if she didn’t make his bones ache. Yet.

“Not sure how much you know about my wife or her history, but she came to Creede from Durango and not under the best circumstances. Though she’s free of those fears now, she’s been seeing some formerly familiar faces.”

Dutch was curious now. He hadn’t known anything about Sophia. She’d been Otto’s wife since he’d arrived in Creede. That was all he’d ever known her as, and he wasn’t in the habit of asking folks after their pasts. It wasn’t his place. But from what little Otto had told him, his interest was piqued. He nodded. “I assume these are faces she’d rather have left in the past?”

Otto nodded.

Dutch could relate. “She’s worried?”

Otto shook his head. “No. Not at all. It’s me that’s worried. She says she’s going to keep living as she does. She won’t let fear get the best of her, that her past is exactly that, her past. She doesn’t think any of them remember her but…” He hesitated, and Dutch saw that his eyes once again returned to his wife.

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