The Colton Bride by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-03T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

When he and Catherine left the dining room that evening, Gray had that deer-in-headlights look. Catherine couldn’t help but giggle as they walked down the corridor to her suite of rooms. “Welcome to the family.” It had been his first experience sitting in the family dining room for the evening meal.

“Is it always like that?” he asked.

“Sometimes it’s much worse,” she replied. “Tonight you just got Trip talking and Tawny whining. Most nights you can add in Darla sniping and you get a trifecta of unpleasantness to go along with Agnes’s excellent meals.”

As they reached her suite, Gray pulled his gun and shoved her behind him and then opened the door. This had become routine every time they had entered the suite that day. He cleared the three rooms and she followed close behind him. Once he tucked his gun back into his holster, they relaxed.

The day had been a strange one. They had spent some of the morning in the stables where the two of them worked oiling saddles. After a quick early lunch of just the two of them, they had spent most of the afternoon in the suite playing cards and then had dusted off an old chess game Catherine had tucked away in her closet. They’d matched wits for three games. Unfortunately he had won two of those games, crowing with his victory until she laughed helplessly at his mock arrogance.

This had been the Gray she remembered, the young man with the sparkling golden-brown eyes and laughter spilling from his lips. This was the man she’d once loved with all her heart, the man who’d made her laugh, who’d made her feel so safe, so loved.

But that was then and this was now and while the afternoon had been pleasant the evening brought with it the rising tension of sharing the bed.

At least they had arranged for Dylan to come to the suite to talk about how they intended to go forward with the investigation into his mother’s past.

As she sat in her favorite chair, Gray flopped down on the chaise. She could feel a restless energy wafting from him. It kept one of his feet tapping absently against the floor for several minutes. Then he got up to stalk back and forth across the sitting-room area and finally landed at the window to stare outside.

“Maybe you should fill me in on some things that have happened around the ranch in the past couple of months,” she finally said, hoping to get him to settle down.

He turned and looked at her. “You’ve been living in this house. You should know more about what’s been happening around here than I do.”

“I should, but I’ve tried not to listen. I’ve been hiding out from the bad stuff as much as possible and now it suddenly feels like I need to catch up in order to help myself, and maybe in going through it all we can figure out some things about Faye. I mean, it seems like everything bad started with Cheyenne’s attempted kidnapping and Faye’s murder.

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