Mail-Order Bride Ink: Dear Mr. Diamond by Kit Morgan

Author:Kit Morgan [Morgan, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Angel creek press
Published: 2019-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

What was he doing? He couldn’t afford an attraction to Katie Haverdash. A lingering look here, an accidental brush of his hand against hers there, was asking for trouble. Yet when they were talking about Sayer’s book moments ago, he’d noticed her pretty hair, the brightness in her eyes, how she seemed delicate as a porcelain doll. So beautiful and so vulnerable. But she had some steel inside. He knew it was time to leave. So why did he have to go and offer her iced tea?

“Afternoon, Sheriff,” Darcy Templeton called when he entered the café.

“Darcy.” He tipped his hat. “Two iced teas.”

She glanced behind him. “Two?”

“Yes, please.” He didn’t elaborate, not wanting news of Katie working at the bookshop all over town by nightfall. People would find out eventually, but the longer he could forestall it, the better.

“Visiting with the professor?” she asked brightly.

He still said nothing, but studied the patrons. Seeing no strangers, he relaxed a notch. Whoever took a shot at Katie would either lay low and try again later, or hide in plain sight like Mr. Cord had, posing as a barbed-wire salesman.

Darcy brought him his drinks. “Here you go, Sheriff.”

He put some money on the counter. “I already asked Mr. Gruber, but I’ll ask you for good measure – have any strangers been through here the last few days?”

“No, just townsfolk. Does this have to do with whoever shot at the Vanders’ house?”

He sighed and noticed everyone watching them, waiting on his answer. “Yes, but I don’t think there’s anything to worry about. I have it under control.”

Some patrons visibly relaxed and went back to their meals or conversations. He’d have to catch the malefactor fast or people would start getting edgy. In his experience, when people got edgy they got trigger-happy. He didn’t want neighbors shooting each other on accident.

“Don’t forget to bring back the glasses,” Darcy called after him as he headed for the door.

He looked over his shoulder, winked and watched her blush. Before Fletcher got married, she’d been enamored with him. Jace liked to tease her about it, figuring she wouldn’t set her cap for the local lawman. Besides, everyone in town knew he had a mail-order bride, though not everyone knew he hadn’t sent for her.

What he did know was that the Mad Matchmaker wouldn’t take a shot at Katie Haverdash. That case was something else entirely.

He couldn’t shake the feeling she wasn’t telling him everything. There had to be more to her than just fleeing an unwanted marriage. If she had no enemies and could think of no one that might want to harm her, then what about her father? Maybe somebody was trying to do away with Katie in order to get to him. Or to Ronald Finch – if folks in Denver thought she was his fiancée, and if he had enemies. That she’d come here as a mail-order bride made him lean toward Finch as a suspect, or a connection to one.

He entered the bookshop, went straight to the counter and handed her a glass of iced tea.

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