Lone Calder Star by Janet Dailey

Author:Janet Dailey [Dailey, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ranch life - Texas, Western stories, Contemporary, Calder family (Fictitious characters), General, Romance, Sagas, Montana, Texas, Fiction, Ranch life, Love stories
ISBN: 9780821775424
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2006-04-24T23:00:00+00:00

down to breakfast until after the morning chores are done."

"I have two here that are over easy," she told him, nodding the skillet.

"You eat them," he said. "I'll fix my own after I've had this cup of coffee."

Taking him at his word, Dallas used the spatula to lift the eggs out of the skillet and onto a plate, then carried it to the table, pulled out a chair, and sat down. As she reached for the salt and pepper shakers, she glanced at her grandfather.

"You know we still have to drop the trailer key off and cancel the telephone and utilities," she said. "If I leave here no later than three-thirty, I should be able to get all of it done before I have to go to my class tonight."

"Might as well," Empty agreed and scooped strawberry jam onto his slice of toast. "No sense paying for a service we aren't using."

When Quint wandered over to the table, she glanced up, a sudden uncertainty flickering in her expression. "Sorry. I should have asked if it was all right with you if I left early."

"I don't have a problem with it," Quint replied.

"Right after breakfast, I'll put a roast in the slow cooker, along with some carrots and potatoes.

You two can have that for supper tonight."

Quint wasn't ready to face the thought of breakfast and she was adding supper into the mix.

Rather than comment on that, he asked instead, "How late will you be tonight?"

"I probably won't be back until around eleven or so. Just leave the door unlocked." Dallas snapped a slice of crisp bacon in two and sent a sharp glance at Empty. "Don't wait up for me. I don't want to walk in and find you sitting in the recliner with a shotgun on your lap."

" Those times you found me that way I had cause," Empty insisted.

The good-natured squabbling between the two reminded Quint of his own grandfather and his occasionally irascible ways. It made him smile.

"The shotgun's locked in the gun cabinet," Quint told her. "I'll see that it stays there, so you won't have any worries on that score."

With a loud harrumph Empty expressed his opinion of that. " You'll change your tune real fast the first time somebody comes snooping around here."

Privately Quint couldn't argue with that and responded with a noncommittal smile. But he knew his troubles with the Rutledges had only started.

A thin cloud drifted in front of the waning moon, dimming its light and intensifying the star-twinkle in the night sky. But Dallas look no notice of it, her senses dulled by a fatigue that was both physical and mental. At the moment all of her attention was foused on locating the Cee Bar's entrance gate.

But the truck's headlight beams were slow to separate the gate's tall posts from the roadside shadows. It suddenly loomed on the right, forcing Dallas to slam on the brakes. As the truck fishtailed nearly to a stop, Dallas swung the wheel and drove through the gate, sending up a silent prayer of gratitude that no one had been behind her.

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