Marry Me By Sundown by Johanna Lindsey

Author:Johanna Lindsey [Lindsey, Johanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472250520
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2018-07-09T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

FILLED WITH DETERMINATION, VIOLET started walking south right after breakfast the next morning, vowing to find the money. She would insist that Morgan immediately send it to her brothers. Two days ago she’d searched in this direction, but she’d covered only the slopes that were easy to navigate. Today, feeling more comfortable in the wilderness, she would venture into the rougher terrain where high, rocky ledges abounded.

She got excited when she found some disturbed dirt. She pushed the dirt away with a sharp stone. Bo’s whining should have been a clue, but she was terribly disappointed when all she uncovered was one of the bones he’d buried. He quickly swiped it up and trotted off. She sighed and sat in the grass for a few minutes, looking around. The ledge she’d come across, which was only about five feet high, started a few hundred feet back, and up ahead she could see a black hole at the base of it. Thrilled to have found a potential hiding spot, she leapt to her feet and ran to it, then stared wide-eyed at what was crawling out of it.

“Oh, aren’t you just too adorable!” she gushed as she picked up the puppy and cuddled it in her arms. It had a cream-colored belly, but its coat was mostly brown hair tipped with black. The lower part of its face was white. “We’re going to be best friends, you and I, and Lord Elliott will love you after I marry him, I will insist.”

Delighted to finally have a dog of her own that she could raise and train herself, she didn’t give the hole another glance, turning to rush back to camp to show Morgan what she’d found. She shouted for him to come out of his mine. He came tearing out, gun in hand, and with a big grin on her face, she held the puppy up for him to see. But he barely glanced at it; he was looking behind her instead.

“You shouldn’t have brought that here.”

Her chin rose a notch. “I’m keeping it.”

“If you want to stay here and live with it till it dies, fine, I’ll kill its mother for you when she shows up, and she will. But you can’t take it wherever you’re going from here. Most folks have a strong aversion to wolves, even small ones.”

“A wolf?”

“Did you really think it was a dog?”

“It’s a baby!”

“Which has a mother who will be looking for it. Damn, when the hell did wolves move onto my slopes? Have you seen any others while you’ve been wandering?”

“No,” she said miserably.

She was crushed, so much so that she felt tears welling in her eyes. Obviously she couldn’t keep it or have its mother killed.

“Come on, we need to put it back exactly where you found it, and douse it in water to remove your scent. Go dunk it, I’ll get a sack to put it in.”

She knew he was right, she just didn’t like it at all, and promised

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