The Law and Ginny Marlow by Ferrarella Marie

Author:Ferrarella, Marie [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2011-09-04T12:08:38+00:00

Wearing the nightgown that Zoe had loaned her, Ginny leaned over the double bed and fluffed up her pillow. “The Cutlers are nice people.”

Jenny had elected to sleep in her camisole and underwear. She sat on the edge of the bed, not quite a prisoner, not quite free. She shrugged indifferently. “They’re okay.”

Ginny reached for Jenny’s pillow and fluffed it as well. “You seemed to think Mrs. Cutler was more than ‘okay.’”

Jenny turned, ready for a fight. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Ginny tossed her pillow back into place. Why was there always that hostile look in Jenny’s eyes? Why couldn’t they just talk? “Only that you seemed to take to her. And she certainly took to you.”

Jenny swung her long legs under the covers. “Jealous?”

Ginny bristled at the suggestion. “No, of course not.” Quint’s words about communicating played themselves through her head. She swallowed her pride. “Yes.”

The admission surprised Jenny and she stared at her sister.

“What?”

It wasn’t easy opening her feelings to an audience that had been far from receptive for more months than she cared to remember, but there was a great deal at stake. Ginny pushed forward.

“Yes, maybe I am a little jealous. Jealous that you can relate to a total stranger so easily when you can’t even talk to me.”

Jenny reacted the way she had for the past couple of years. She took Ginny’s confession as a criticism against her. “Maybe it’s because the total stranger doesn’t judge me.”

Ginny could feel the conversation slipping away again, out of her control. “I never judge you.”

Jenny’s brown eyes grew into small, accusing slits. “Yeah, right.”

Ginny opened her mouth, ready to vehemently deny the charge, then stopped herself. The sound of raised voices arguing was no way to repay the Cutlers for their generosity. Besides, what good would it do? The harder she tried, the less Jenny listened. Ginny did what she seldom did in life. She temporarily gave up.

With a sigh, she lay down on her side. “You’d better get some sleep, you’ve got to get up early tomorrow to work in Taylor’s store.”

Jenny groaned, grumbling under her breath as she tossed herself down on the pillow, her back to Ginny. She didn’t want to think about what she had to face tomorrow.

They were sharing a bed, just the way they used to years ago when they were younger, except that now at least it was a double bed instead of a single one.

They’d seemed to come almost full circle, Ginny realized. Who would have ever thought that success brought so much dissatisfaction with it?

Ginny sighed again. Back then, she thought all they needed to solve their problems was each other and a wheelbarrow full of money. Talk about being naive…

“Sheriff going to drive me in tomorrow?”

Ginny turned her head toward Jenny. “Us,” she corrected, wanting there to be no mistake that she was here for her. “Drive ‘us’ in, and yes, he is.”

Quint was staying at the ranch tonight instead of driving to town and then back again in the morning.

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