Maggie and the Maverick by Erica Vetsch

Author:Erica Vetsch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

eleven

They reported the robbery in Silver City, and Maggie slipped a letter to Maxwell onto the coach headed for Boise. Seeing to the remains of the express messenger, Adams, wasted another day. Exhausted and with frayed nerves, she returned to Money Creek with Cal late in the afternoon.

Lily greeted them at the gate with good news. Clara and Alec’s baby had arrived, a healthy baby boy. The following day, Cal took Lily and Rose to the Cross B for a visit.

Maggie declined Cal’s invitation to go with them. “They won’t want a stranger in the house right now. It should just be family.”

Cal threaded his fingers through hers and bent to whisper in her ear. “You can be family the minute you give the word.” His voice rumbled and sent a tickly feeling through her.

Maggie longed to grasp at the happiness he offered, to throw away caution and embrace a future with Cal McConnell, but she couldn’t. Not until this case was finished, not until she was free to tell him the truth about herself. “I’ll see you when you get back tomorrow. Give my best wishes to Alec and Clara.”

With Lily and Rose looking on, Cal didn’t kiss her good-bye, but the intent gleam in his eyes told her that was the only reason he restrained himself.

Maggie saw Cal and Lily off and walked up the street for a cup of Georgia’s coffee and a chat. She’d just reached the Rusty Bucket when Powers pulled his horse up at the hitching post.

“Morning, Miss Davis. I was hoping I’d run into you.”

“Sheriff.” Why was he approaching her in broad daylight? He was about as subtle as a bucket of water in the face. He’d blow her cover for sure.

His saddle creaked when he dismounted, and his horse shifted away from him. Powers reached up into his hatband for a toothpick and stuck it between his teeth. “I figured you’d be in to make your report when you got back to town yesterday.”

“Keep your voice down. I can’t just sashay up to the jail under the eyes of the town.”

He narrowed his eyes. “Then do it after dark. It’s about time you started treating me like a partner in this investigation. I want to hear everything you know about this last holdup.”

Give me patience, Lord.

After her coffee at the Rusty Bucket, where Georgia was too busy to sit and talk, Maggie spent some time chatting with Joe Williams at the stage office. She also engineered an “accidental” meeting with Hecker from the bank when they both happened to enter Purdy’s Mercantile at the same time. Joe and Hecker each expressed their disgust and frustration at the latest robbery, solicitous for her welfare, sorry she’d been on the stage when it got held up. If either of them was in on the thieving, he didn’t let on.

With no breaks in the case, she pinned a lot of hope on Maxwell and Trace being able to get information out of Kruger. She went

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