The Alaskan Courage Collection by Dani Pettrey

Author:Dani Pettrey [Pettrey, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC042040, FIC042060, FIC027110
ISBN: 9781441229168
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

15

Darcy settled in her sleeping bag and rolled to face Piper. They’d dimmed their lantern, but the full moon shining through their canvas tent illuminated the small space between them enough that Darcy could make out Piper’s worried expression.

“How’s Reef?” Darcy asked. She’d been introduced to the McKennas through Reef’s homecoming, his murder charge, and the subsequent investigative ordeal.

“Good, I hope. It’s been a while since we’ve heard from him.”

“What? I thought he’d decided to stay.”

“He did. For about a week after you left.” Piper shifted, nestling into her inflatable pillow. “You know Reef—can’t sit still for more than a minute.”

“Will he be back for Cole and Bailey’s wedding?”

“I pray so.”

She did too. “I’m glad I got to bunk with you.” She’d missed Piper, missed all the McKennas, especially Gage. “Who’s Kayden bunking with?”

“Whitney Castle.”

Kayden was in one of the glamping tents? Darcy wondered about Gage’s influence on that decision, when she was the one who was supposed to be writing about the excursion experience from a participant’s POV.

“Ah, Gage’s new friend,” she said with a little more bite than intended.

“What?” Curiosity danced in Piper’s voice.

“Nothing.” She was being petty. Whitney seemed perfectly nice, and there was no reason for her and Gage not to converse. It wasn’t like she and Gage would ever be an item. They couldn’t.

His disapproval of her profession and questioning of her character were the least of their problems. She’d been praying about his utter lack of desire for a relationship with God ever since she’d first met the man. And she prayed still that God would bring healing—for only He could.

Though he frustrated her more than anyone she’d ever met, he’d wrestled a part of her heart away, and she feared it would always belong to him. As much as she hated to admit it, she yearned for his understanding, his assurance, and his . . . love?

“You okay over there?” Piper asked in the silence.

“Yeah, I’m just . . .”

“Deep in thought?” Piper propped her head on her hand. “Are you making any progress?”

Darcy sighed. “Not nearly enough.” Although Whitney’s conversation with Gage might have given her the first viable lead—a place to start digging on the Bering.

She needed to get back into Abby’s room without the roommate present and snoop some more, needed to see if Abby had hidden away anything containing more detail or more elaborate notes. For all she knew, the Bowen case Whitney mentioned was nothing more than what the media and law enforcement deemed it to be—that the man killed his wife and somehow escaped—but maybe there was more to it, something connected to Abby’s disappearance.

Piper shifted to face her better in the small confines. “Tell me about her.”

“About Abby?”

“Yeah.”

There was so much to say, so many memories. . . . Where did she start? “I met Abby freshman year of college. We were assigned to room together.”

“Did you hit it off right away?”

“More or less. Abby was a go-getter, smart, savvy . . . destined to be a reporter.

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