Inheriting a Bride by Lauri Robinson

Author:Lauri Robinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781472003706
Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Limited
Published: 2013-04-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Too overwhelmed to do much else, Kit stared at the swinging door. Her mind and nerves were swirling faster than fireflies in a mason jar, sparking light and fading just as quickly. Not only had her mother been alive, she’d remarried and had a son. Kit’s brother. Sam Edwards.

Add all that to the way her hands still tingled from how tenderly Clay had held them while he explained it all to her, and there was too much to contemplate. She just couldn’t. Not all at the same time. The same day.

The door swung open, and Clay, with his hat on his head and one arm in his vest, said, “I’ll be right back. Stay here.” This time he left the kitchen using the door near the stove, the one that led outside, while slipping his other arm through an armhole of the black vest he’d worn the night before. He’d come and gone so fast she barely had time to react.

He popped his head back around the door, looking at her expectantly.

“I—I will,” she stuttered, remembering his request.

He smiled, pulling the door shut, and her mind flipped about, questioning how easily she’d responded. She’d always done as she was told. Not that she was ever told a lot. Such as the fact that her mother hadn’t died when Kit was a baby. She winced at the direction of her thoughts, and the bitterness she felt. Yes, she’d always wanted a family, but at the same time, she’d never doubted being loved. Gramps and Grandma Katie had seen to that. Yet right now, she felt about as empty as a discarded can.

Kit stood and scanned the kitchen, wanting something to combat the jitters attempting to overtake her. After circling the room, in which everything was brand-new and unused, she walked to the swinging door that led to the foyer, and pushed it open. The darkness on the other side made her pause. It was such a disparity, the bright cheeriness of the kitchen compared to the other rooms shrouded in darkness. Holding the door wide, she walked as far as her arm would stretch. Beyond the front foyer, through a wide archway, there looked to be a parlor of sorts. Tiny rays of light shot up to the ceiling from behind the heavy drapes, proving windows graced two walls of the room.

Curiosity got the best of her, and she found a piece of kindling to use as a wedge under the door. With it propped open, light from the kitchen flowed across the foyer and into the large room adjacent. She maneuvered around furniture to the windows in the front wall. The drapes were heavy and several layers thick. Hooking one behind a nearby chair to let in sunlight, she turned to inspect the room.

White sheets draped the furnishings, and dust motes floated in the shaft of light as if they’d been sleeping for years and just awakened. In the center of the room was a long couch, and the impressions in the sheet said someone had lain upon it, perhaps slept there.

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