The Cabin by Carla Neggers

Author:Carla Neggers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9781460302378
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Susanna splashed her face with cold water in her little cabin bathroom and recovered her composure. In all the months she’d pictured herself telling Jack about her encounter with Beau McGarrity, she’d said to herself—for God’s sake, don’t cry. Just tell him straight up and let him get all official and try to tell her he should arrest her for withholding evidence. She’d be objective, calm and reasonable, understanding of the anger and sense of betrayal he might feel at her long silence.

That plan had gone to hell when she found out he’d known about Beau McGarrity practically all along.

In hindsight, she should have told Jack what had happened. It had been her first instinct, and she should have followed it. But clarity was so much easier now when he was here. She wasn’t dealing with the reality of a stranger in her kitchen. There’d been so much at stake. The Rachel McGarrity murder investigation. Maggie and Ellen’s safety. Her own. Once Jack told her about Alice Parker, it had seemed safer, simpler, better for all concerned for her just to say nothing.

She noticed in the mirror that her eyes were red-rimmed and puffy. Tough to blame that on the snow, the cold, the face wash. Damn, she’d held back on that cry for far too long.

Jack was right. That moment she’d decided not to tell him about Beau McGarrity, she hadn’t wanted to be married to a Texas Ranger. She’d have taken an accountant, a social studies teacher, a construction worker—except she knew better. Violence could strike anyone, anytime. She’d learned that in her years married to Jack Galway. And she loved him.

She’d seen him cry once, at his mother’s grave in San Antonio. She was killed in a car accident when he was fifteen and his younger sister was just nine. His father worked two jobs and pushed both his son and daughter to excel, to open up their world and possibilities. Jack had gone to Harvard, Kara to Yale—and both had come home to Texas, although Kara only recently. Bill Galway had remarried and moved to Corpus Christi, satisfied to spend his retirement fishing and telling people he had one kid who was a Texas Ranger, another who was a lawyer, so between the two of them, no matter what happened, he was all set.

The Galways were a tough lot, that was for sure.

Susanna splashed her face once more, dried off and headed back into the kitchen. Jack and the girls were making dinner—spaghetti, salad, garlic bread. He glanced at her but said nothing, and she could tell his mood was definitely dark. At least with her. He seemed fine with Maggie and Ellen.

She joined Gran at the puzzle table. “We should go to England,” Gran said, “and look up this castle.”

Susanna smiled. “I thought you didn’t like to travel.”

“Well, England might be nice.” She glanced up at her granddaughter and whispered, “You told him?”

“He already knew.”

“Ah.”

Gran was aware some of the details about what had happened with Beau McGarrity, but not all of them.

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