Reaper's Justice by Sarah McCarty

Author:Sarah McCarty
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Western
ISBN: 9781101445754
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

11

THE FRESH SCENT OF YEAST AND LEMON OIL WELCOMED Addy back into its embrace as soon as she renetered her kitchen after changing her clothes. She breathed deeply, letting the familiarity sink in. The dough she’d prepped before changing because she’d needed that reconnection with normal would almost be ready. Orders were no doubt piled up outside the front in the box set there to collect them. Wood needed bringing in and the stove needed firing but she was home. Inside calm, slowly blossomed. She was home.

Hard to believe after the events of the last three days, but looking around it was almost as if she’d never left. The bright blue flowers in the wallpaper, chosen because they didn’t remind her of blood, shone brightly against the pale yellow background. She’d paid her cousin dearly for the paper. He’d bought it off the wagon of a peddler from back East who’d misjudged the wealth he’d find along the way to the gold mines of San Francisco. She’d never regretted the expenditure.

She loved the paper. She loved her cousin. She’d even begun to love the life she’d made for herself. But now, because someone had a grudge against Cole, his guilt was kicking in again and her lifestyle was in danger.

She sensed more than heard Isaiah come up behind her.

“It’s just the way you left it.”

Was it her imagination, or was there a question in that statement? She looked around the room. It wasn’t exactly as she’d left it. She’d been drinking her tea when they’d taken her. She remembered it spilling, her panic at the thought of the teacup breaking. Her cup wasn’t on the table, however. Instead, it was on the counter on the towel beside the sink, the handle facing inward so it wouldn’t get broken. Exactly the way she always left it—the way she would have left it if she hadn’t been kidnapped.

A chill went down her spine as she stared at that cup. There was only one person who could have done that. Reaching for her worry stone, she rubbed it between her fingers. “Just how long have you been watching me?”

Isaiah didn’t answer right away. And when she turned around, he was eyeing her carefully. That didn’t bode well. She remembered how he’d slipped through the darkness like one of the shadows, how he’d had those horrible evil bandits shaking in terror. She remembered how he’d stood up to her cousins, how he’d saved her, how wonderfully he’d made love to her. She took a shallow breath and squeezed her worry stone between her fingers. Maybe it didn’t matter how long he’d been watching her, maybe she had a better question to ask. “Why have you been watching me?”

His expression went totally blank. That was an answer he didn’t want to give her.

She considered pushing for a response, but she took in the breadth of his shoulders and that wild look in his eyes that never really went away, and she reconsidered.

As good as Isaiah had been to her, he was still an unknown quantity.

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