The Wild Lavender Bookshop by Jodi Thomas

Author:Jodi Thomas [Thomas, Jodi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2024-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Tell Me a Story

Sunday

Andi sat on the porch of her cabin and enjoyed the slow rain. Everywhere she traveled in the world she liked to watch the storms. A downpour always made the place seem small, as if the walls of the world were closing in.

She’d told Danny she had no home. Even when she was a kid traveling with her stepdad and her mother to military bases and embassies around the world, she’d searched for a place where she belonged.

Her mom told her that for some people home is a person, but Andi didn’t believe her. Andi had never had a man she couldn’t walk away from. Even when she went back to DC for a holiday, she was ready to fly out within a week.

She watched as Danny marched his way down the muddy trail toward town. Once it got dark, he wanted his pickup parked close in case they had to make a fast getaway.

The sheriff told the deputy that a few strangers had been asking around about a tall woman new to town. Then, before she could argue that it was probably a coincidence, he was walking back to the station. The man reminded her of a Clydesdale horse. Big, powerful.

They’d had nothing but a break-in with her car since she came to town. That could happen anywhere, to anyone. But one thing she’d learned about her deputy was he did his best.

Andi was sure he had cop blood in him. He lived, breathed, and thought like a cop. She’d learned that he wasn’t dumb and he moved faster than most men over six feet tall. He was always polite. And he had something else she rarely saw; he was good to the bone. Her stepfather was honorable and caring like that. She’d only known Danny a short time, but she trusted him like she trusted Pop.

Two men in different worlds but cut from the same cloth. Maybe there were hundreds, or millions. She never took the time to look. She was too busy seeing the bad ones.

She stood still for a while, listening to the rain. For once she just wanted to relax and breathe, but the silence ended as the pickup splashed down the dirt road. Danny stopped fifty feet from her cabin, as if he wanted to hide the old truck in the trees.

She smiled, remembering what Danny said yesterday while they were rattling around in the pickup. “No one but a fool would ever sell a running pickup. I’m not sure, but I figure my dad thinks it is the Eleventh Commandment.”

The words were pure Texan.

“Look,” he yelled as he jumped out of the cab and started splashing through mud puddles toward her. “I brought tacos for breakfast in the morning, and your mail. Sheriff called and said it was addressed to the station. Must be important ’cause it’s an overnight delivery.”

Danny kept talking as he marched toward her. “Pecos had me pick up a flyer about two missing teenagers from Lubbock.

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