To Believe by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown [Brown, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477813072
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2008-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The laundry was finished after a week with a full house. Everything was put back together and ready for another group to arrive, but that wasn’t for another ten days and it was only four people. Ten days of Trey with no one in the house loomed ahead worse than the fog on the mountains of the Talimena Drive.

After two weeks she and Trey had worked themselves into a schedule. When guests were in the house, they shared breakfast duties. If not, they took turns at it. Sometimes they helped with ranch duties in the evening if there were no guests, depending on whether Roseanna’s dad needed them. Tonight she worried about the confrontation tomorrow morning with Jodie who’d be home from the rodeo rounds and had no idea what was happening at Cahill Lodge.

She paced the floor for a full ten minutes then sat down in a recliner and popped the foot rest up but didn’t tilt back.

Trey carried a thick book into the lobby, sat on the sofa across from Roseanna and opened it without looking at her. His black hair was combed back and he wore silk pajama bottoms with a loose fitting T-shirt and socks. Everything about him screamed across the room at her to come over there and cuddle up beside him.

She cleared her throat and he looked up.

“Okay, Trey, for the first week I was so angry at you being here, messing with my mind, I tried to figure out a way to make homicide legal in God’s eyes. I’m over the anger, well, almost. So we might be able to talk. Why are you here?”

“Blunt, aren’t you?”

“Always have been. You should remember that from the first time you met me. Now answer me. And I want the truth.”

“This is going to be easier than I thought. Teaching business. I’m excited about it, Roseanna. It’s the first time I’ve been really excited about a job in my whole life. Of course, it’s only the second job I’ve had, but I got it on my own merits. I went into that office and laid out my resume and they hired me. Not because my name is Fields or because my family started an oil company almost a hundred years ago. They hired me because of me. That’s exciting. That’s what I came here for. Last night after you went to your room there was an old movie on television. It was called Serendipity. You ever seen it?”

She didn’t know where he was going with the answer. Usually very terse, he always answered with as little words as possible. He’d already used more words than he normally did in a whole day’s time. To think that he’d watched a chick-flick was enough to take him to the psych ward of the nearest mental hospital. For him to be rambling on about his classes was extremely out of character. What had those kidnappers put in his Vienna sausage cans, anyway? Some kind of mind altering drug?

“I saw it years ago.

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