Her Very Own Champion by Jean C. Gordon

Author:Jean C. Gordon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Upstate NY Romance

That was it? Nice knowing you, but I don’t want to be seen with you. Jared strode up Conifer Road toward the highway. No way could he stand still and wait for Connor. He slowed his pace as he got close to the intersection. Why should he expect any different? It didn’t matter what he’d done with his life, in Paradox Lake he’d always be Jerry Donnelly’s kid. And Becca Norton would always be one of the untouchables to him.

Beep! Connor turned his car onto Conifer Road and stopped next to Jared, who yanked the passenger-side door open. “Did you think I wouldn’t see you?

“I’m not going to even ask.” Connor did a U-turn and headed back home.

“Good.”

They rode in silence to the parsonage. Connor pulled into the garage, and Jared reached for the door handle as his brother turned off the car. Maybe he’d take his bike out and blow off some steam. “Thanks for the lift. I’ll catch you later. I’m going to go for a ride.”

Connor looked out the garage door. “Those clouds are nasty looking.”

“I know what I’m doing, little brother.”

Connor mumbled what sounded like, “I hope so.”

He turned his back on Connor and the car and tramped across the garage to his bike. He was used to making decisions and acting on them. Since he’d returned, everyone seemed to have directions and second guesses for him. Jared fired up the bike and gunned the engine, letting the vibration ease his tension. As the engine wound down, Jared saw a flash of lightning, followed by an almost immediate crash of thunder. He cranked off the motor and swung off. One more corner heard from.

He swung open the door from the garage to the house. Forever Wild, the local country band from Ticonderoga was blaring from Connor’s office, almost drowning out the sound of the house phone ringing. “Connor,” Jared shouted, figuring the call was for him. It stopped ringing as Jared picked up the receiver. He punched in the parsonage’s phone number and voice mail code.

“You have one new message. Press One for new messages.” He hit One.

“First new message, received Saturday at 9:59 p.m. ’Jared Donnelly, watch the channel 44 news tonight and see what people really think about your motocross racetrack.’”

“What’s up?” Connor bounded down the stairs. “I was fine-tuning tomorrow’s sermon.”

“The phone was ringing. I figured it was for you.”

“And it wasn’t?”

“No, it was for me. Someone left a message telling me to watch the channel 44 news.”

“You going to?”

“Might as well. Want to join me?”

“Sure.”

Jared settled back in the recliner and turned on the TV.

“Now to our on-the-spot reporter Kelly Keene with a report filmed in Schroon Lake this afternoon.”

“Kelly Keene, talking to some of the participants in what appears to be a spontaneous protest against international motocross champion and Paradox Lake native Jared Donnelly’s plans to build a motocross racetrack on Conifer Road near Paradox Lake in the Town of Schroon.”

“Motocross school,” Jared automatically corrected.

The camera panned to 20 or more

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