Читать книгу The Prodigal Texan - Lynnette Kent - Страница 2
“What are you doing?”
Miranda asked as she faced him
Оглавление“Just walking a lady home.”
“I am home. This whole spread is my home.”
“You never know what might come out in the dark.” He covered the distance to the back porch, opened the door to the house and ushered her in.
“Thanks for letting me watch the foal be born tonight,” he said.
She turned to face him again. “You’re welcome. At least you weren’t totally useless. You made the phone calls, and you brought my coat.”
Jud laughed. “So happy to be of service, Ms. Mayor.
Aren’t you glad you changed your mind and let me stay in the foreman’s cabin here?”
“I guess so. But keep out of my way,” she said, retreating to the shadows within, “unless you want me to change it back again.” The thud of the house door punctuated her order.
“Not a chance,” Jud said softly, walking across the open ground toward the foreman’s cabin. “I’m not leaving until my business here in Homestead is done.”
He glanced over his shoulder just as a light upstairs winked out. “And that business, Miranda Wright, definitely includes you.”
