Colton Baby Rescue. Marie Ferrarella
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Название: Colton Baby Rescue
Автор: Marie Ferrarella
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Вестерны
isbn: 9781474081955
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“The older one. Serena,” he specified.
The housekeeper frowned. “I’m afraid that she’s not here, either.”
Just as the woman was about to forcibly close the door on him, Serena’s voice was heard calling to her from upstairs. “Alma, I’m going to need you to watch Lora for me for a few hours while I’m working with the horses.”
Carson’s eyes met the housekeeper’s. “Looks like she came back. Lucky me,” he commented.
“Yes,” the older woman responded icily. “Quite lucky. I will go upstairs and tell Miss Serena that you want to see her.”
“That’s all right,” Carson said, moving past the housekeeper and entering the foyer. “Don’t trouble yourself. I can go tell her myself. I know my way.”
And with that, he and Justice headed toward the winding staircase.
Carson took the stairs two at a time with Justice keeping pace right behind him.
* * *
About to go back into her suite as she waited for the housekeeper to come upstairs, Serena was more than a little surprised to see the detective make his way up to the landing in the housekeeper’s place.
Now what? Serena thought impatiently.
“Did you forget something, Detective?” she asked, doing her best to sound polite and not as irritated as she felt.
“No,” he answered, reaching the landing, “but you did.” He signaled for Justice to sit and the K-9 did.
Her brow furrowed a little as she tried to make sense of what he’d just said. “Excuse me?”
“When we talked last night, I got the feeling that there was something you were holding back, something you weren’t saying,” he told her. “The more I thought about it, the more certain I was that I was right. I figured I needed to get back to you to find out just what that was.” He looked at her expectantly.
Alma had just managed to make her way upstairs. The woman was struggling not to pant. “I’m sorry, Miss Serena. He refused to leave.”
“Apparently he’s very stubborn,” Serena said, looking coldly at the invading detective. She drew herself up, moving away from the bedroom doorway. “Alma, if you don’t mind looking after Lora, I’ll see if I can’t put the detective’s mind at rest once and for all, so he can be on his way and we can all go on with our lives.”
He waited until the housekeeper picked up the baby from her crib and left with Lora before saying anything to Serena.
“Have I done something to offend you, Ms. Colton?” he asked, referring to her rather abrupt tone.
He had gall, she’d give him that. “You want that alphabetically, chronologically or in order of magnitude?” she asked the detective.
“Tell you what, I’ll let you pick,” Carson said magnanimously.
He didn’t think she was going to say anything, did he, she thought. Well, he was in for a surprise.
Serena launched into him. “You come storm trooping into my house at an ungodly hour—”
“You were up,” Carson reminded her.
“That’s beside the point,” Serena retorted. “I was feeding Lora. But that still didn’t give you the right to burst in here—”
“The chief knocked,” Carson corrected her. He could see she was getting really frustrated. The fire in her eyes was really rather compelling to watch. “And he is your brother as well as the police chief.”
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