Lydia's Twin Temptation by Heather Rainier

Author:Heather Rainier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 1619260948
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Published: 2011-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Smelling like smoke from the grass fire, Chance walked in the back door with his twin at three o’clock on Friday morning feeling grubby. He wanted a shower but thought twice about traipsing through the house, knowing Lydia was trying hard to get it thoroughly clean, despite having little help.

“Let’s strip down in the utility room,” Chance said with a yawn. “We can throw the clothes straight in the washer.” Clayton nodded mutely, and they set the washer to filling and dropped their clothing in one article at a time. Chance grabbed their boots and put them on the back porch so they wouldn’t stink up the house with their smoky, sooty smell.

With the exception of one dim lamp downstairs, the house was dark as Chance followed Clayton up the stairs in his boxer shorts. He was beat and wanted a shower and his bed. He’d be lucky if he got a couple of hours sleep before it would be time to get up and face the day again.

They took hot showers and scrubbed away the smoke and soot that clung to their skin. The hair on Chance’s right forearm had gotten singed off in a flare-up, but in all they’d been very lucky.

The grass fire had burned up a lot of the mesquite and dry brush that bordered their property. He was thankful that the fields up front had been baled the week before and the bales stored elsewhere.

Working together with the volunteer firefighters, they’d managed to keep the fire contained to an area roughly fifteen acres in size. A vehicle must have come though dragging something that threw sparks because small grass fires had sprung up all along that stretch of the state highway, and they’d kept busy helping put out the other fires, besides the one in front of their place.

On his mind also was the news that Gil James had discovered Kade Parker on the front porch talking with Lydia. Chance knew Lydia wouldn’t willingly spend any time alone with Parker, and Gil had mentioned that she’d sounded a bit tense when he’d asked if she was all right. Gil had told Chance that he’d given Parker instructions to get on the second truck to head out to the fire while Gil secured the barns for the night.

When Chance and Clayton later questioned him, Kade had been very apologetic, claiming that he’d misunderstood and had merely been “checking on things,” as he put it. They’d warned him to listen to instructions better, and he’d promised that it had been a misunderstanding.

“Did you check on Lydi before you came in the shower?” Clayton asked as he scrubbed his head.

“No, she must be sound asleep. I’ll check her before I go to bed. Damn shame we got interrupted,” Chance murmured as he rinsed the soap from his skin. He lathered up again just to make sure the smoky odor was gone.

Clayton chuckled as he rinsed his head under the pelting spray of the showerhead. “She seemed real disappointed, too.

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