Suki's Heart by Indiana Wake

Author:Indiana Wake [Wake, Indiana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 2019-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Sonny walked his horse slowly through the town on his way up to the Shepherd family farmhouse. He’d only worked the morning for Felton Lowry that day, deciding he ought to go back to the boardinghouse and clean himself up beforehand. He’d gone to some effort, too, wearing clean black trousers he’d had made with the extra money he had been earning of late, a soft green plaid shirt, and his best boots, the ones he never, ever wore for work but saved for the Sunday Service and the barn dance.

Mrs. Marley, disappointed that he wouldn’t be staying in the boarding house for dinner as usual, had looked at him appreciatively nonetheless and promised him he would have a fine time with the Shepherd family; they were good people.

His thick black hair really needed a cut, but he’d been working every hour he could lately and just hadn’t found a moment to go to the town barber. But, all in all, he thought he looked well enough to sit down and have dinner with people who were, essentially, perfect strangers.

Suki Shepherd didn’t feel like a perfect stranger to him, however, even though he was sure he couldn’t claim to know her well. But there was something about her determination to keep to herself which had told him more about her than an evening of the most obvious attention from Gracie Thornhill could have. Suki, with her reticence, had actually given away part of her own character; a part which had intrigued him and made him want to find out more about.

All he really knew about Gracie Thornhill was that he did not particularly like her. That and the fact that Gracie clearly did not like Suki. He hadn’t gotten to the bottom of why, but nobody hearing that young woman spit venom could have been in any doubt.

Gracie Thornhill, despite being pleased that he returned to her after only a few brief moments with Suki, had been irked by it, nonetheless. She went on to spend the next twenty minutes telling him how aloof Suki was, how she thought herself too good for any man, and how the town despised her for it.

Sonny hadn’t believed a word of it, even the accusation of aloofness. He knew there was more to Suki’s reticence than the idea that nobody was good enough for her. In fact, he had begun to suspect it to be fear more than anything else. Maybe she didn’t trust easily, a feeling he could understand himself. That would certainly explain her cold reception of him when he’d made his way over to where she was sitting.

He’d been so awkward, knowing that his guilt likely showed on his face. But he knew he’d done nothing wrong, nothing beyond being waylaid by one of the most determined young women he’d ever met.

But Suki’s rejection had bitten him deep, a feeling he hadn’t been able to shake immediately. He felt annoyed by it, wronged by it, and by the time he had returned to Gracie Thornhill, he was angry that Suki hadn’t given him a moment to explain.

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