Lawfully Witnessed by Jo Grafford & The Lawkeepers

Author:Jo Grafford & The Lawkeepers [Grafford, Jo & Lawkeepers, The]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JG PRESS
Published: 2019-10-20T05:00:00+00:00

Gregory was being burned from the inside out by a raging hell fire. He had no right to disobey orders like this, no right to detour southwest on the trip he was supposed to be making to Utah; but he’d been unable to help himself. If he didn’t lay eyes on his love again, if he didn’t hear her voice one last time, he would surely have expired.

Just seeing how much weight she’d lost and the sadness in her, that he alone was responsible for, was ripping him into an infinite number of pieces this very minute.

By the time he raised his head, both their faces were drenched in tears. “I already sent a telegram to my superiors,” he confessed. “I disobeyed orders by coming here. They will send someone to fetch me, and I will have to face the consequences.”

“Who are your superiors, Gregory Armstrong?”

“I am not at liberty to say. But this. This I can tell you.” He grimaced. “Whatever punishment I will face, it was worth it. Seeing you again was worth it.”

“No, I do not accept this. I will not let it be over. We will leave together. Tonight.” She gripped his shoulders. “I am a very wealthy woman. We can go anywhere in the world. Catch a ship overseas if we want.”

He cupped her face in his hands. “If only I could, my precious girl. I would give you everything. I would give you the world.”

She flung her arms around his neck and tugged him down for another kiss. “You already have, by returning to me. You’re all I ever wanted, Gregory. Not everything else. Not the world. Just you.”

He kissed her slowly and tenderly, basking in the warmth of a love he didn’t deserve from a woman whose trembling smiles would turn to bitter glares, if only she knew the truth about him.

“Come with me.” She reached for the glass behind them, turned a handle, and pushed it open.

He was amazed to realize they’d been standing by a door all this time. He’d mistakenly presumed it was a window.

She led him to the gazebo where they’d spent so many happy hours in months gone by. By the time they ascended the stairs, she was shivering with cold.

“You’ll catch your death out here,” he protested, unbuttoning his jacket and throwing it around her shoulders.

“Then we’ll find a different place to talk. Let’s keep moving.” She tugged him across the gazebo and down the opposite set of stairs. A minute later, she flung open the carriage house doors. “Here. This is better, so long as you don’t mind the dark.” She led him to her aunt’s carriage. “We can sit here for a spell.”

Once inside the carriage, she snuggled against his side. “Someday you’re going to tell me everything, Gregory Armstrong.”

“I want to,” he muttered against her temple. “I’ve never cared to keep secrets from you. Please believe me when I say it eats away at me, day and night.”

“Then I will share my secrets, instead.” She reached up to cup his cheek.

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