The Coyote's Cry
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“Because I love you.” He turned and walked away, and Jenna watched for a moment, then turned and looked at Bram. His family was taking turns hugging and congratulating him, and Jenna had never seen a more moving sight. She walked toward the Coltons, her own family soon, and heard Bram saying, “I’ve loved her for so long and foolishly almost lost her. It won’t happen again.”
She smiled and Bram smiled back at her—a beautiful smile, such as she had never seen before—and just then George WhiteBear approached his great-grandson. “You won the golden fox. She will give you many sons.”
Jenna started laughing and tried to conceal it with her hand. After all, this was still a funeral, hardly an event for uncontrollable mirth. But “many sons”? And then her laughter stopped as quickly as it began, for with all the proof of his psychic powers that she’d encountered first-hand, how could she possibly laugh at anything George WhiteBear said?
She was mulling over the high probability of becoming a mother to “many sons” when George looked around at his family and said quite clearly, “Willows are meant to blossom and will bloom during the brightest midnight.”
Jenna’s eyes darted around, searching the crowd and finally finding Willow. From the look on Willow’s pretty face, the poor girl must have realized George’s message had been aimed at her, but didn’t know if it was good or bad news.
Bram came over to Jenna and put his good arm around her. “I think it’s Willow’s turn,” he said in her ear with a small chuckle. Jenna turned up her face and Bram kissed her. “Let’s go home, sweetheart,” he said softly. “We have an awful lot of talking to do.”
“Among other things,” Jenna murmured, bringing a twinkle to her lover’s romantic dark eyes.
They walked away, arm in arm.
Special thanks and acknowledgment are given to Jackie Merritt for her contribution to THE COLTONS: COMANCHE BLOOD series.
ISBN: 978-1-4268-8728-4
THE COYOTE’S CRY
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