You Must Remember This Part 1 by Marilyn Pappano

Author:Marilyn Pappano [Pappano, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

“Are you busy?”

Her head was bent, her eyes on the computer screen, her fingers typing away on the keyboard. What about that picture didn’t look busy? Juliet groused silently as Mariellen plopped down in the chair across the desk. She finished the list she was typing, then looked at her young clerk. She’d often wondered just how much work Mariellen got done on Juliet’s library days, with no one to supervise her. She suspected not much. “Why aren’t you at work?”

“I was. I took an early lunch.”

“It’s not even ten-thirty yet.”

The clerk shrugged. “I heard you ran into a little trouble at the Saloon last night.”

Grand Springs was, for all its size, still a small town at heart. It didn’t take long for gossip to circulate, even about something as insignificant as her run-in with the drunken cowboy. “It was no big deal.”

“Jimmy Ray’s not usually such a pain. In fact, he’s a pretty nice guy. He does like to party, though. He must have tied on a few too many, to be hitting on you.” The young woman’s voice caught, and embarrassment crept in. “Not that there’s anything wrong with hitting on you—I mean, unless you don’t want him to. I imagine there must be plenty of men somewhere who would make a pass at you if you wanted them to, but…” She blew out her breath. “You’re just not Jimmy Ray’s type.”

Resisting the urge to point out to her clerk that she’d been at the Saloon with a man who had turned her down, Juliet looked at her. “Now, that’s a relief.”

“Oh, hey, he’s a lot of fun, really. He just likes young and less…settled women.”

Juliet’s fingers returned to the keyboard, typing in commands. She’d been wrong last night when she’d thought that she had once been as young as Mariellen. She’d never been that young. If that was “less settled,” then hooray for settling in.

“He said some mean son of a bitch practically dislocated his shoulder. From his description, I knew it could only be Martin Smith. He likes older women, of course.”

Annoyance crept into Juliet’s voice. “Is there anything you need, Mariellen? Because if there isn’t, I know for a fact that you’ve got enough work piled on your desk back at the department to keep you busy until this time next year.”

“I just wanted to tell you that Jimmy Ray’s not a bad guy. I’ve known him all my life. I lived just down the street from his grandparents, and we played together practically since we were in diapers.”

Finally she was interested enough to turn away from the computer. “You were born and raised here, weren’t you?”

Mariellen nodded. “You want to know anything about Grand Springs, if I don’t know it, I can tell you who does.”

“Tell me about the mayor. The last mayor. Olivia Stuart.”

“Oh. Well, her son Hal is real cute, but he’s kind of old—like, nearly forty or something. I grew up with Eve. She’s just a year or two older than me.

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