:Chicken!: Michelle thought when she opened her eyes and found herself alone.
If he heard it, and he must have, he didn’t offer a response.
Damn you, Manella. But she kept that part to herself. The pain of seeing how wounded he was injured her nearly past bearing.
Michelle wasn’t ready for who awaited her in the small gazebo that seemed to hover over the water by the shore. But there was no question in her mind that Emily Beale was waiting for her, even though she sat with her back to the water.
Swimming ashore, Michelle wrapped a generous Henderson’s Ranch terrycloth towel around her hips, followed the water’s edge over to the log gazebo, and sat down across from her.
Still Emily didn’t say a word and Michelle felt strangely unwilling to speak first. Jesse and her semi-brother had be
