(Big Spur, Texas #2) Passion Flower by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

If she'd hoped for a new start that morning, she was disappointed. She fixed break-

fast, but Everett went out the front door without even sticking his head in the kitchen.

Apparently, he'd rather have starved than eat what she'd cooked for him.

That morning set the pattern for the next two days. Jennifer cooked and wound up

eating her efforts by herself. Everett came home in the early hours of the morning, ar-

ranging his schedule so that she never saw him at all.

He'd sold the bul . She found it out from

Eddie, who was in a nasty temper of his own.

"I practical y begged him to wait and see what happened," Eddie spat as he

delivered the eggs to Jennifer the second morning. "When that neighbor didn't want

the bul , Everett just loaded it up and took it to the sale without a word. He looks bad.

He won't talk. Do you know what's eating him?"

She avoided that sharp look. "He's worried about money, I think," she said. "I offered him what I had. He got mad and stomped off and he hasn't spoken to me

since." "That don't sound like Everett."

"Yes, I know." She sighed, smiling at him. "I think he wants me to go away, Ed-

die. He's done everything but leave the ranch forever to get his point across."

"Money troubles are doing it, not you." Eddie grinned. "Don't back off now. He

needs us all more than ever."

"Maybe he does," Jennifer said. "I just wish he'd taken the money I offered to lend him."

"That would be something, all right, to watch Everett take money from a lady. No

offense, Miss Jenny, but he's too much man. If you know what I mean."

She did, unfortunately. She'd experienced the male in him, in ways that would haunt

her forever. And worst of all was the fact that she was still hungry for him. If any-

thing, that wild little interlude on the sofa had whetted her appetite, not satisfied it.

For lunch, she put a platter of cold cuts in the refrigerator and left a loaf of bread on

the table along with a plate and cup; there was coffee warming on the stove. She pul ed

on a sweater and went down to visit Libby. It was like baiting a trap, she thought. Per-

haps he'd enjoy eating if he didn't have to look at a city woman.

Libby didn't ask any obvious questions. She simply enjoyed the visit, since the chil-

dren were in school and she could talk about clothes and television programs with the

younger woman.

At one o'clock, Jennifer left the house and walked slowly back to see if Everett had

eaten. It was something of a shock to find

him wandering wildly around the kitchen, smoking like a furnace.

"So there you are!" he burst out, glaring at her with menacing brown eyes. "Where in hell have you been? No note, no nothing! I didn't know if you'd left or been kid-napped, or stepped into a hole..."

"What would you care if I had?" she demanded. "You've made it obvious that you

don't care for my company!"

"What did you expect?" he burst out, his eyes dangerous.

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