Black Diamond.
I walked into the cafe and joined Alex and Aly for morning coffee. We talked about the dance last night and Aly informed me that she’d already handed in a report about the case with Zeth’s horse. I told them about the developments in the garden sabotage case and about going to the orphanage. We talked about how good Alex was with kids. We talked about last night’s dance and how Sommer had been dancing with some woman that Jack had called a family friend. We joked about the wedding speeches and then headed out to see what kind of work needed to be done.
Tombstone.
I felt like I was being followed so I turned to see a man with white hair and a dark trench coat. “Afternoon Sir,” I greeted him. “How are you today?”
“Wanderin’ around.”
“New in the area?”
“No, no I’m not,” he smirked.
“Don’t think we’ve had the pleasure of meeting.”
“I thought we had but ya never know.”
“Maybe in the past week... I’m a bit all over the place lately.”
“So remind me...?”
“I think it was a couple weeks back when we met in Black Diamond... but if not, Hi, I’m Victor.”
“Right, sure... sorry I don’t know what’s with my memory this week. Nice to see you, Victor. So you out lookin’ for work, Victor?”
“No, the homestead keeps me busy enough,” he shook his head.
“Glad to hear that.”
Mikk rode by and then Jamie ran over to me and exclaimed, “Miss Trin!!”
“Hey Jamie,” I looked at her. “You okay, hon?”
“Did ya get married?” she gasped.
“No hon,” I laughed.
“Oh, okies,” she said and ran off.
“People are in an interesting mood today, ain’t they?” I looked over at him.
“No kiddin’.”
“What on earth would give her that thought? Anyway... how have things been around here other than weird?”
Before I knew it, Victor had walked off without a word.
Black Diamond.
I lay back in the tree and saw a man riding over. Bree came over and joined us and then the man rode off. Aly came out and joined me in the tree and we relaxed during the quiet afternoon.
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