Sonora Sundown: Arizona (The Americana Series Book 3) by Dailey Janet

Author:Dailey, Janet [Dailey, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

"I'M SO EXCITED! Look at the way I'm shaking." Karen held out a trembling hand to confirm her statement.

"Relax," Brandy smiled, but the palms of her hands were clammy with nervous perspiration and an army of butterflies was fluttering in her stomach.

Karen's car was parked in the parking lot with other tourists' vehicles and they were walking to the entrance building that would admit them to Old Tucson, a recreated town of the Old West days.

"I hope I don't talk too much," Karen sighed, then worriedly, "I hope he hasn't forgotten we're coming today."

"He hasn't," Brandy assured her promptly.

"Of course not." There was a wry shake of her Titian head. "Not with you along, he won't forget. Especially when you consider the trouble he went to to get you here. Every time I think about you turning down a date with James Corbett, I become more convinced that you must have had rocks in your head."

After he had left the shop on Monday, Brandy had told Karen about his visit to her home, hoping to minimize the second invitation. She had been severely scolded for keeping it a secret all this time, and her sanity doubted.

"We've been all through this before," Brandy protested in self-defense. "Besides, what could I possibly have in common with a movie star?"

"Who cares, for heaven's sake!" The chiding exclamation was accompanied by an exasperated sigh. "And if you never go out with him, you're never going to know whether you do or not. I only hope you haven't lost him to that Evans girl."

"I haven't had him, so I couldn't have lost him," Brandy pointed out, but there was a twinge of pain in her midriff.

Karen ignored the accuracy of that observation. "Maybe they quarreled and he's turning to you for consolation. It might explain why he waited so long before seeing you again."

"It's possible." All too clearly possible, although the idea that a man as confident and self-possessed as Jim might need consoling did sound unusual.

As they stepped out of the brilliance of the mid-day sun into the comparative darkness of the small entry building, they had to pause inside the threshold until their eyes adjusted to the dimmer light. An older couple was at the ticket window, so they moved to take their place in line behind them.

A balding man in an old-fashioned starched white shirt with a garter around one sleeve and red braces down the front smiled blandly as they approached the ticket window.

"Good afternoon, ladies," he greeted them with professional cheerfulness.

Brandy's throat became parched, a sudden attack of nerves making her incapable of speech, but Karen suffered no such difficulty.

"I believe Mr. Corbett left some passes for us?'' she began. "I'm . . ."

The politeness in his expression was immediately replaced by a friendly warmth. "You'd be Miss Justin and Miss Ames," he identified them before Karen had a chance. The gleam in his light blue eyes lingered on Brandy for a speculative moment. "He told me you would be coming.

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