Indigo Blue by Catherine Anderson

Author:Catherine Anderson [Anderson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-03-09T23:00:00+00:00

Later that evening after Jake left to go visit her father, Indigo went out to the well to haul in water. As she drew up the bucket, she looked longingly toward the woods. The birds sang here in Aunt Amy’s yard, but not as serenely as they did deep in the forest. The wind whispered here, too, but it didn’t speak to her in quite the same way. She had to face the possibility that she might never again wander for hours in her beloved mountains.

A prisoner. That was what she had become. And it might be a life sentence.

Feeling oddly numb, she leaned her back against the well and stared at nothing. In the back of her mind, she wondered if perhaps she wasn’t suffering from delayed shock because of all that had happened. But the question took too much thought for her to muddle through and decide on an answer. It didn’t really matter. The numbness felt rather nice after all the turmoil.

Three days. How could one’s life change so drastically in so short a time? She studied a clump of grass near the toe of her moccasin. Seventy-two hours ago, the grass had been just as it was now, several green blades, all sprouting from a matted root system. The sun was setting, right on schedule, as it had for centuries. The moon would rise when darkness fell. Nothing in the world had changed, and yet nothing was the same.

She tried to assemble all the changes into a meaningful whole, so she could grasp exactly where she stood and where she was headed. But she felt dizzy, the way Chase used to make her feel years ago when he grabbed her wrists and spun with her in a circle until she couldn’t stand up. She had that feeling now, as if the ground and sky were whirling, and she couldn’t find anyplace solid to plant her feet.

All the things she had always counted on had been snatched away, Lobo, the support of her parents, the home where she’d grown up, the mine, and her mountains. Even her name was different. Not Indigo Wolf anymore, but Indigo Rand. She felt like a cup that had been drained and left empty.

Denver Tompkins’s taunts whispered in her mind, and she closed her eyes on a rush of shame. She tried to imagine the coming night, but her head refused to form the pictures. She only knew that making love with a man who regarded her as a possession to be used and lent out was bound to be horrible. She could only wonder why Jake had given her a reprieve last night. Was Topper right? Had Denver been lying? Or was Jake merely toying with her?

A cougar’s cry lifted in the air. Indigo raised her head and listened. Toothless. Tears threatened to fill her eyes. Straightening her shoulders, she blinked them away, grabbed the bucket, and ran toward the house, sloshing water.

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