Olivia and Simon (Colorado Matchmaker Book 4) by Annie Boone

Author:Annie Boone [Boone, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Romance, Women's Fiction, Victorian Era, 19th Century, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Love Possibility, Frontier-Pioneer Era, Cowboy & Western Romance, Hearts Desire, American West, Clean & Wholesome, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Colorado Matchmaker Series, Susannah Jessup Matchmaker, Mail-Order Bride
Publisher: Sweet River Publishing
Published: 2018-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Flour, sugar. What else?” Olivia was nearly finished in the mercantile after stopping in the haberdashery and delivering some vegetables to the church. Pulling the scrap of paper from her pocket, she glanced over the errand list one more time. “Church and vegetables, haberdashery for buttons, then flour, sugar, and salt. That’s what it was.”

In a rather good mood, she started to hum as she waited for the supplies she needed. “Here we are,” she beamed. “That should be everything.”

The clerk took care of her list and found one of his errand boys to carry everything out to the wagon for her. Wrapping her coat around her, she followed the young man out, offering advice on the best way to put everything in place. “Perfect,” she nodded when he was finished. “Thank you so much.”

She watched the young boy, blushing and awkward, hurry back inside. Reaching for her bonnet, she started to put it back on. Today was a good day, and Susannah had been right about her needing to get out of the house. As Olivia turned to the front of the cart, she found Lucas headed in her direction. “There you are! I’m nearly finished. Oh, my.” She was immediately concerned when she saw his troubled expression.

Dropping her hands to her side, she squinted at the man who came closer her. Trouble, and guilt, and uncertainty. All of these emotions were ones Olivia had never seen in Lucas Jessup before, not in the few months that she had known him and his wife. If anything, he was much too calm and too confident most of the time.

“What is it?” She swallowed hard, not sure she wanted to hear what he would say.

“Let’s go to my office.” He took a deep breath, rubbing his forehead as he glanced around the street. He grabbed her arm when she didn’t budge, but did so lightly, inviting her to join him down the block towards his sheriff’s office. She hurried to keep up with him, wrapping her fingers around his arm in order to stay upright. Olivia noticed his eyes skirting the streets carefully, as though he were looking for something, or someone.

“But the wagon. We can’t leave it.” She was looking for any excuse she could think of to stall.

He shook his head. “It’ll be fine. It all can wait.” Normally Lucas wouldn’t do such a thing. He never left anything unfinished. Swallowing, she found herself looking around the town carefully, wondering what was out there causing him to be so watchful. Dread filled her stomach and her mouth turned dry as the fear returned to her stomach. Just when she had thought it was finally fading, it came back like a tidal wave.

They reached his office, a small room with a desk. It led off to one other room with a desk for Jeb Harbin, and then a back room with three cells. Lucas sat her down in his chair, and he started to pace the room. Olivia watched, twisting her hands in her lap, listening and waiting.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.