No Ordinary Hero by Lee Rachel

Author:Lee, Rachel [Lee, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: suspense
ISBN: 9781426884993
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-02-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

D el stood in the kitchen, trying to make coffee even though she was shaking. She didn’t know if she was mad, or if she felt he was trying in some way to con her, or what. Just because Mike Windwalker had been the vet in town for the past few years didn’t mean he was someone she could trust.

All that stuff about being a medicine man. She had been willing to accept it as part of his cultural heritage, but now she wondered if he hadn’t been making up stuff to try to impress her some way…or to scare her.

After all, it had been Mike Windwalker who had suggested that someone was trying to scare her out of her house. She couldn’t imagine any earthly reason why anyone should want to do that, so why had that even popped into his mind? Because he was the one trying to scare her away?

“Del?”

“I don’t want to talk right now.” She almost spilled coffee as she scooped it into the filter.

“Then I’ll talk. I’m sorry I upset you, but I can’t pretend to be somebody I’m not.”

She turned then to face him, seriously annoyed though damned if she was sure why. “And just what are you?” she demanded. “All this talk about feelings and shamanism, and then trying to scare me out of my house because you say it feels sad? I’m supposed to swallow that?”

His jaw dropped a little, and then his dark eyebrows drew together. “I’m not trying to scare you out of your house. In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been busting my back trying to help you find out what’s going on.”

“Sure. And dropping little hints in my ear about feelings you get, about how somebody might be trying to scare me out of this place. Suggestions.”

“They’re not suggestions! I’m not trying to convince you of anything. I’m trying to help solve the problem.”

“If they’re not suggestions, what are they?” She wanted an answer, and it had better be a good one.

He looked away for a moment, then faced her again with a steady gaze. “They are what they are. Feelings. Intuitions. Something I was taught to be open to since my earliest childhood. This house speaks, for those with ears to hear, and you can like that or not. It doesn’t change what I sense.”

“Why would you sense it and no one else?”

“You already sense it. Your daughter has heard noises. You’ve heard them. I’ve heard them. Something is wrong with this house.”

“There’s plenty wrong with it. And I’m fixing what’s wrong with it.”

“But there’s something you can’t fix with all the hammers and nails in the world. If you think I’m trying to get you out of this house, if you really believe that, I’ll leave now.”

She couldn’t immediately answer. For some reason what he had said had knotted her emotions in some way and she couldn’t fully untangle the skein of feelings and thoughts. But as he started to turn away, clearly intending to leave, she knew one thing for certain.

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