Wish Upon a Cowboy by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780739408070
Publisher: St. Martin's
Published: 2000-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

"Is he back?" Hannah spun about, eyes wide, to face the man opening the door.

Hours had passed since Jonas had ridden off. Long after the other ranchers had gone home, she'd waited, long after twilight deepened into night, she'd waited.

But he hadn't returned and a small corner of Hanna's heart wondered if he ever would. Yet even as that thought niggled and worried inside her, a storm raged outside. Wind tearing at the trees. Thunder and lightning slashing across the sky. And she knew, despite her anxiousness, that Jonas was close—and still angry.

In the hours he'd been gone, Hannah had brought to mind every time she'd angered him in the last couple of weeks—an innumerable amount, she was forced to admit. And each time his temper flared, she recalled, clouds gathered and lightning flashed. Apparently, Jonas's anger was enough to shake even heaven.

So the fact that a storm seemed to be hovering over them almost gave her comfort.

Elias stepped into the kitchen, took off his hat, and pulled out a chair. Soaked to the skin, his movements slow and weary, he looked every one of his years. The cracks and crevices in his face looked as though they'd been carved with a heavy hand. Tossing his hat onto the table, he sat down heavily and peered up at her.

"Yeah," he said. "He's back. Riding night herd. God help the man who gives him any trouble tonight."

"Angry, is he?" she asked, glancing once at the pelting rain slamming against the windowpane.

A tired half smile curved Elias's mouth briefly was gone again. "Angry?" He shook his head. "If you call a howling Comanche out for hair angry, then I guess you could say that."

"Did he say anything to you about why he's mad?"

Elias's gray gaze narrowed on her thoughtfully. "No, he didn't. But I'm willin' to bet it's got somethin' to do with you."

Only everything, she thought and felt the bottom drop out of her stomach. She'd made such a mess of things. What had gone wrong? Back in Creekford, this had seemed so simple.

Come to the Mackenzie. Point out his duty. Marry him and conceive a child.

And yet… nothing was working the way she'd expected it to. He should have been happy to discover his abilities. Anyone else would have been. And if her own magic hadn't deserted her completely, Hannah would be sorely tempted to whip up a love potion or two.

But no. She'd so hoped that being near a powerful warlock would help her abilities grow. Instead, they seemed to have drained from her altogether. Just as, she reminded herself, the witches in Creekford were being stripped of their powers by Blake.

But Jonas Mackenzie hadn't deliberately taken anything from her. He didn't even want his own powers, let alone hers.

"I have to talk to him," she muttered, more to herself than to the man still watching her from the table.

"I don't think that's a good idea," Elias told her quietly.

Her gaze snapped to his, drawn by the warning implicit in his tone.

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