Sunrise Crossing by Jodi Thomas

Author:Jodi Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2016-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

GABE WALKED OVER to the gypsy house, moving silently in the shadows out of habit. Neither Yancy nor Tori were there. He knew it was early, but he was too restless to hang around the bed-and-breakfast and pretend to be studying. He’d played so many roles in his lifetime, pretending to fit in, that he’d become an expert in many areas.

Early on, when he’d been in the army, Gabe had studied the history of war. He’d even picked up a degree in history from a little college in South Carolina. Then, for a few years when he was wandering across the South, he’d studied the Civil War. In his thirties, he’d worked undercover for Homeland Security a few years in the arms trade and had learned all about weapons trading. He’d been paid well, but the government kept his work secret for his safety.

When he’d started working for the agency, he’d learned to fit in wherever he traveled. A Southern gentleman who raced horses, a stockbroker in LA, a landman in the Oklahoma oil fields. And each place he went, each person he tracked, he studied. Sometimes he knew the man he hunted well enough to have taken his place.

He was a wealth of useless information, but the constant learning kept his mind off living. Maybe that was why he liked disguising himself as a professor. People didn’t consider professors threatening, and he knew enough to hold his own in conversations.

Crossroads, his hometown, had been interesting to step into as an outsider. He’d learned things most of the locals probably didn’t know. Only he was careful not to ask about the gypsy house, or Yancy Grey, too often. He had to be prudent with his questions. Keep his glasses on. Play his part completely.

If anyone who knew Yancy looked straight into Gabe’s eyes, they might figure out his secret.

So tonight, after circling Yancy’s house, he turned toward town. He’d heard the Franklin sisters say there was a big meeting at the county offices on Main. Talk was, the ranches around here were selling small hunks of pastureland to allow for wind turbines. Most folks were for it, but a few thought it might cause problems. There were already turbines whirling like giant pinwheels, but soon there might be whole fields of them.

Gabe decided to walk over and listen to what was happening. He wasn’t really that interested in the meeting, but he wanted to check out the county offices. Weathers had said the sheriff’s office was in the building. It had been a long time ago, but Gabe had once broken into a sheriff’s precinct to remove evidence. He’d known it was a crime, but the evidence belonged to him.

As he stood in the back of the courtroom, surrounded by people, some he used to know when he was a kid, Gabe tried to imagine what it would have been like if he hadn’t left. Would he have really tried to go to college and make something

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