Twilight, Texas by Ginger Chambers

Author:Ginger Chambers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

EXCTTEMENT WHIPPED through Twilight like a fever the next morning. The “Western Rambles” crew was starting interviews. No one wanted to work during the tapings. Everyone planned to watch as first Pepper and Rhonda went before the camera, then Mary and Benny and, finally, John.

Karen considered herself immune to the illness. Her day’s schedule called for her to resume her work downstairs in a continuing effort to clear and organize the crowded puzzle pieces that were her aunt’s legacy.

She wasn’t unaware of what was happening, though. Her bellwether was the cessation of construction, which resumed anywhere from a half hour to an hour later. By midafternoon she’d noted at least three such stoppages. It was only during the last that her curiosity became piqued enough to draw her to the front window.

A small crowd had gathered across the street at the well. She watched as Lee, still wearing jeans but with a far nicer shirt, spoke with John. He was motioning this way and that—at the well, at the tree behind it, toward the houses on either side and behind, then across the street to where she stood. Karen pulled away from the window. She didn’t want him to see her standing there, watching! But she didn’t have to worry. When she chanced to look again, he’d moved on to talk with Diane and Manny. Soon everything that needed to be resolved was resolved, and the interview started after one last check of the principals’ mikes.

John, it seemed, was going to act as host—as if he were escorting Lee, and through him, the audience, around town for the first time. Karen saw them make several starts, then finally continue for a piece, while John told the story of the well. She saw him gesture, saw Manny lean over the cleared opening of the well, shining the shoulder-held camera’s bright light toward the bottom.

The interview proceeded with numerous starts and stops, until finally they left the well—Manny walking backward, his camera lens fixed on the two men, while Diane, wearing a set of headphones, fiddled with the dials on a small black box.

The crowd followed, having become quickly educated about staying out of camera range. John and Lee stopped in front of the Lady Slipper to talk, but contrary to Karen’s expectations, they didn’t go inside. Instead, they started down the sidewalk... in her direction.

For a second she panicked. She was afraid they might try to come in. John, she knew, wouldn’t think a thing of it. And Lee—She wouldn’t put it past him to do something like that just to irritate her.

But after passing the mercantile, they also walked past the antique shop and ended up going all the way down the plank sidewalk to the hotel.

“Isn’t this great?” Bette enthused, taking a moment to pop into the shop. “John’s a wonder. I never knew—” She laughed. “I could be married to a big star and not know it!”

“He did look as if he were having a good time,” Karen said, smiling.

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