Leaving Lavender: A Time Travel Romance (Lavender, Texas Series Book 3) by Bartholomew Barbara

Author:Bartholomew, Barbara [Bartholomew, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

The car felt big and empty with just the two of them. Zan insisted Eddie take the more comfortable back seat so she could stretch out and sleep, while he rested in the front one. He quickly reprogrammed the auto for their new itinerary and with the darkness of night falling around them, they once more entered the highway.

Eddie lay wide-eyed in the darkness, so tired she couldn’t stay awake, but finding every time she dropped off, it was only to immediately awaken with a jerk. What would Mama say—for once she didn’t say ‘Cynthia’ even in her own mind—if she knew Betsy was off alone somewhere in this world that would seem strange even to her.

She could only thank God that Einstein was with Betsy. She knew why her sister had left her behind. Betsy thought she was in love with Zan and would want to stay with him.

It wasn’t true, of course.

Oh, she found him attractive in spite of his strange ways, or maybe because of them.

People at home had always thought she was weird. Maybe they were weird in the same way.

Maybe she felt like he needed her.

Or that she needed him.

Well, in a way, she did love him. But she wasn’t in love with him.

“Eddie, you awake?” his voice sounded from in front of her.

She hesitated only a second. “I am now.”

“Didn’t mean to wake you.”

“You didn’t. I was just thinking about everything.”

“I’m sorry to have dragged you and Betsy into this. It seemed so simple the way I had it figured out. I knew they’d be watching for me the minute I left the ranch if I was by myself, but with the two of you they would figure we were just going shopping or something like that. It would give us time to head for the badlands where I had the change of identities all worked out. Then we would go to Lavender and you two would be safe while I looked for the information I needed. And nobody could find me to get the final details of the plan in my mind.”

“Could it really wreck the world, Zan?”

“It could,” he admitted as though shamed. “If they could put it all together. That’s why I’ve got to disappear. It wasn’t a bad idea, Eddie.”

For perhaps the first time in her adult life she giggled. “You just didn’t count on me and Betsy.”

“Two most stubborn women in the world,” he admitted with what sounded like pride.

He didn’t say anything else and she found her lashes beginning to close once more. She began to dream of home, of Lavender where the people were having a regular town meeting and a vote was to be taken on whether to allow Dr. Alexander Alston to remain as a citizen.

“He’s a likable young man,” Papa argued, his face stern, but his eyes kind. “And he has many talents to add to our community.”

“No!” Mama jumped to her feet. “You don’t know the world he comes from and I do. It’s a wicked place where people blow up their neighbors and ruin the earth itself.

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