Wild Montana Nights by Marla Monroe

Author:Marla Monroe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Book/Menage
ISBN: 9781610346382
Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.
Published: 2011-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Darla had just turned the chili down to simmer when the electricity when off. Marcus must have turned off the generator, she thought. The rooms would get cold soon. She hurried up folding the clothes in the laundry room then put them up. It was a good thing Marcus had talked her into wearing a T-shirt under her flannel one. She already felt the cold seeping into the rooms.

Once she had everything finished that she could do without electricity, Darla put another log on the fire and curled up on the couch with a blanket. She couldn’t read in the dark despite the fire in the fireplace. With the snow coming down like it was, there was little light outside to stream through the windows.

At least an hour had passed when she heard someone stomping at the back porch. She hurried into the kitchen wearing the blanket to see who it would be. Marcus pushed into the room closing the door behind him. A roll of snow followed at his feet.

“Damn snow,” he mumbled.

“Is everything okay with the horse?” she asked.

“Don’t know yet. Randall is working with her. Looks like colic, but we aren’t sure how she ended up with it. All the feed looks fine.” He shucked his outerwear and stuffed his feet into the loafers that sat under the coat rack for them.

“I’ll boil some water, and we can make coffee,” she offered. “It might taste a bit strong, but it will warm you up.” She hesitated. “Unless you would rather have hot chocolate.”

“Coffee, no matter how strong, will be wonderful. I’m going to get by the fire for a few minutes.”

Darla cleaned up the mess on the floor from where the snow had blown in. It didn’t melt, so she knew it was cold in the house. Next she put a pot of water on the stove and turned it on to boil. She located the strainer and put three small scoops of coffee into it. As soon as the water boiled, she would set the strainer with the coffee into the water. She hoped it would be palatable. She thought about her mother talk about doing it.

Thinking about that brought the memories of her mom and dad back. She’d lost them in a tornado when she was fifteen. Sometimes she could almost feel her in the room with her. Times like these she wished she had her to talk to.

The water began to boil, so she sat the strainer in the boiler and turned the heat down so it would simmer. More than likely it would be bitter, but it was the best she could do since they didn’t have instant. She needed to put that on the grocery list for the next time they went into town.

Several minutes later she turned off the coffee and poured a cup for Marcus. She took a tentative sip of the hot liquid and nearly burned her tongue off. It wasn’t half bad, but too hot to drink. Still, she carried it into the living room where Marcus was backed up to the fire.

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