With Song by Dorothy Garlock

Author:Dorothy Garlock [Garlock, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 1999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Fourteen

When are you going?”

She felt a little sick and silently prayed that he not see how anxious she was to know the answer to her question.

Hod picked up her left hand and brought it over to place her palm against his right one. Her fingers were white and slender, her nails short and rounded. Suddenly he could picture a ring there, his ring, proclaiming to all that she belonged to him. He gently rubbed his fingertip up and down her ring finger.

While she held her breath and waited for him to speak, a knot formed in her stomach.

“Are you trying to get rid of me?” His voice was strained.

“You know I’m not.”

“Did it embarrass you to introduce me as your fiancé?” He looked out the driver’s window and swallowed, fighting the tightness in his throat.

“Whatever gave you that idea?” I was sinfully proud to introduce you as my fiancé.

“I’m not going.” He turned and looked into her eyes.

Molly’s first reaction was stunned surprise. When it passed confusion took its place.

“Won’t you . . . get fired?”

“I’m not going,” he repeated.

“Why not? If there’s no longer any danger that someone will shoot me—”

“—I took a month’s leave to make up my mind if I want to go back to the Bureau . . . that’s what I told the chief. But I already know what I’m going to do.” There was a quiet look on his face that she’d not seen before. “I wanted you to know that I’m staying here on my own without the support of the Bureau.”

“I’m glad . . . you’re staying. But I don’t want you to lose your job.”

“I’m not losing it. They’ll take me back if I want to go.”

“At the end of the mouth?”

“Anytime. I have a good record.” Their eyes caught and held. “I want to be near you, Molly. I can’t get it out of my head that sometime soon you’ll need me.”

“But if Norton has given up on eliminating me as a witness, what else could happen?”

“I’ve got a gut feeling about that shot that was fired into the house last night.” A worried look came over her face, and he could have kicked himself for telling her that. “But then again,” he added quickly, “I’ve been known to have hunches that went absolutely nowhere.”

She tilted her face to look at him. Desire surged through him, not lustful desire, but an overwhelming need to protect her. What she said next took him completely by surprise.

“Can you stand sleeping on that cot for a month?”

He smiled at that. “That cot is a feather bed compared to some places I’ve slept.” Then, his dark eyes soberly searched her face. “Do you want your aunt to know that I’m not on official duty?”

“I don’t like keeping secrets from her, but if we just don’t mention it one way or the other—”

“Good idea. I’ll have to buy a car. Will you go with me to Liberal to get one?”

“If we drove the truck down, we could pick up the order for the store.

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