Lightning Game by Christine Feehan

Author:Christine Feehan [Feehan, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Luther Gunthrie’s home hadn’t changed since he’d first found old used sheets of corrugated metal and carried them, one by one, over miles of trail, walking with each sheet over his head to bring it to the chosen spot where he’d decided to build his house. He was tenacious when he wanted something, and he loved the hidden piece of paradise he called his. He built the cabin with his own two hands. He built his outhouse next and then his outdoor shower.

He developed a spring that ran all year round to meet his water needs. There was plenty of fish. He could hunt or trap. He did have a bicycle for two once he married. His bride, Lotty, had been the love of his life. The two would pedal to the grocery store on the bike. You never saw one without the other. Luther always stayed close to his Lotty. They did everything together.

The trail leading to the rugged holler that went back to his home was so overgrown a person wouldn’t recognize that it had ever been an actual path at one time. Gunthrie preferred it that way. Since his beloved Lotty had gone, he stayed more and more to himself and discouraged visitors, particularly the official kind that he believed came looking for his still.

One had to trek a long way from the main trail to find the entrance to the holler, and then it was another mile or so in before you came across his cabin. The building was nearly hidden among the trees and overgrown grasses and bush. One would never know that just another forty feet behind the building was the most magnificent clearing surrounded on all sides by woods. The meadow was gorgeous and Lotty had loved it. Luther had transplanted every kind of wildflower they found in the woods that she fell in love with, into the meadow, just for her.

She had a garden there that he had built a fence around to protect from the deer. He claimed he thought it silly, but she loved it, so she got it. Whatever Lotty wanted, she got, and in return, she spoiled Luther as best she could. She painstakingly patched every hole in his clothing and mended every sock. She bartered for skins so she could make him shoes and vests and jackets. She knitted blankets and crocheted lacy curtains.

Their little cabin was cozy and had little feminine touches meant to give Luther a sense of being cared for. There wasn’t a time when he came home, even if he’d been gone for a while, that there wasn’t a cooking pot on the fire. She massaged his feet for him, especially in the winter when he went out hunting, and warmed his hands the moment he came in. Lotty had been as devoted to Luther as he was to her.

Early on, when Rubin first came back home to visit, checking up on the couple, bringing them rabbits to put in the stewpot, Luther had yarn stretched between his hands while she knitted him a sweater.

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