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“Do you see anything?”
Jace shined the flashlight around the dark room. “Not so far. Wait.” He saw something over on the right. He focused the flashlight in that direction. “Looks like an old steamer trunk.”
“Big enough for a body?”
Jace laughed. “Uh, yep.”
“Then you’re on your own, cowboy. I’ll be waiting down here.”
Jace pulled himself up into the attic. Once he stood, he shone the flashlight around the big, open space. He drew back the heavy tarps that blocked the light from coming in the windows. There were three windows in the attic, and once uncovered, it was light enough to see. The only thing up there was that big steamer trunk.
“Here goes,” he shouted in Bree’s direction.
“Good luck.”
He unfastened the latches and pried the top open.
“No bodies.”
“Glad to hear it. What’s in it?”
“I’m not sure. It looks like a bunch of old books. And some clothes.”
“I’m coming up.”
“Wait for me—”
She pulled herself up into the attic before he could walk back over to the opening. “I’m fine, Jace,” she said when he put his arms around her.
“Not just you I’m worried about, stubborn woman.”
“You don’t have to coddle me.”
“Ha! As if that would ever happen,” he rubbed her belly. “Precious cargo in here, darlin’. How ’bout if I just coddle her.”
Bree smiled and rested her hand on top of his. “Or him.”
She walked over to the trunk and pulled out a book. She blew the dust off the cover and opened it.
“It’s someone’s journal,” she said and closed it.
“Whose?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care.” Bree set the book back in the trunk where it had been before and closed the lid.
“Not even curious?”
“Not in the least.”
“What should we do with it?”
“Leave it where it is.”
Bree hadn’t asked Red what he did with Zack’s journals. She flew into Idaho the day before she and Jace were getting married, but the ranch staff already had everything set up, so she and Red went fishing. Just like the first time, they didn’t talk about Zack, and they never would again.
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