Intimate Strangers (Eclipse Heat book 2)
“Lucy was eager to see the Quince men off with a good breakfast so she and Brody could drive the buggy into Eclipse and catch the stage to Buffalo Creek.
Instead, with no preamble and little explanation, the women were joined to the cattle drive, leaving behind a garden full of baby cucumbers that would be rotten cucumbers by the time they returned.
Alex drove the covered chuck wagon into the yard with a story that reeked like week-old fish. “Cookie had a dispute over a card game with th...e wrong cowboy in Eclipse, and the cowboy settled it his way.”
“Is he dead?” Brody was of an age to be downright ghoulish sometimes.
According to Ambrose, Cookie wasn’t dead, just laid up with a wrenched shoulder. Lucy didn’t put much stock in that tale but didn’t dispute it openly. She knew with a sinking heart that, without being asked or even told, her plans had been changed.
She could see how a woman might get tired of being so used, and wondered for the first time if she really might have run away from this life.MoreLess
Instead, with no preamble and little explanation, the women were joined to the cattle drive, leaving behind a garden full of baby cucumbers that would be rotten cucumbers by the time they returned.
Alex drove the covered chuck wagon into the yard with a story that reeked like week-old fish. “Cookie had a dispute over a card game with th...e wrong cowboy in Eclipse, and the cowboy settled it his way.”
“Is he dead?” Brody was of an age to be downright ghoulish sometimes.
According to Ambrose, Cookie wasn’t dead, just laid up with a wrenched shoulder. Lucy didn’t put much stock in that tale but didn’t dispute it openly. She knew with a sinking heart that, without being asked or even told, her plans had been changed.
She could see how a woman might get tired of being so used, and wondered for the first time if she really might have run away from this life.MoreLess
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