The Chesapeake Bride by Mariah Stewart

Author:Mariah Stewart [Stewart, Mariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2017-08-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Owen found Ruby at the counter with a customer when he entered the store. He waved as he went into her living quarters and poured a glass of cold water in the kitchen. He took a long drink, splashed the remainder of the water into the sink, and waited for Ruby’s customer to leave. When he heard the front door close, he went out to the store. He needed to talk to his great-grandmother and didn’t want an audience.

“Gigi, you have a minute?”

“Always have a minute for you. Maybe more, if you need them.” She gestured to the round table along the wall. “Want to sit a spell?”

He nodded and waited until she’d made her way across the room, her feet shuffling in her white tennis shoes. After she’d seated herself in her chair, he took the other and rested his forearms on the tabletop. Neither spoke for a few minutes, but Owen could feel her eyes on him, and he had the feeling they were searching. It wasn’t the only time he’d thought she had such an ability. He’d seen her do it to others. He didn’t know how she did it, but when he was younger, he imagined she had some sort of invisible ray that could secretly probe your mind. At times, just suspecting she was capable of reading his thoughts had kept him on the straight and narrow. He’d secretly thought of it as Gigi’s own form of search and destroy. As a boy, he believed the Gigi Ray was indeed awesome.

He no longer thought of her as possessing the Ray, but he knew she had abilities most people didn’t have. He’d long accepted it, even as he’d never accepted or appreciated similar tendencies in himself. But earlier in Scoop, when Ken Lockhart had walked in, the hair on the back of Owen’s neck had stood straight up, and he’d sensed . . . something.

“You seen my sister yet?” Ken had asked, his eyes narrow and dark.

“Nice to see you again, too, Ken. It’s been a while.”

“I asked if you’ve seen my sister.”

Owen’s Spidey sense began to tingle. “Not in a couple of years.” Owen tried to recall the last time he’d seen his ex-wife. “Maybe two years. Why?”

“Might be time you caught up with her again.”

“She knows where to find me.”

“That’s a fact.”

“What are you trying to say, Ken?”

“Just that you need to mind your own.”

With that, Ken had turned his attention to the flavor board. But the look he’d shot across the room as Owen and Cass were leaving had spoken volumes. Unfortunately, Owen was at a loss to understand what the message might have been. All he knew was that the hair on the back of his neck was still standing straight up.

“Gigi, I got this feeling,” Owen said after relating his exchange with Ken. “I can’t even put it into words.”

“If you’d spent less time trying to push away what you knew all these years, you might not be needing words.”

“What

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