Chapter Five
His tale of “business” had been a lie, of course. Hasan had nothing to occupy himself. If she were not here, he would have gone out hunting, or fishing, or perhaps even finally embarked on his project to redo the house, starting with the grounds, but he did not quite dare to leave her alone here, even though he knew she had no way of escaping the room he’d provided for her. The charms would hold on the door and the windows until he released them. Still….
He did go out to the porch to survey the yard and the woods surrounding the house. All was serene, as he had expected it to be. Perhaps at the back of his mind he had feared that whoever had destroyed the settlement at Pagosa Springs might have tracked Jordan here, but that didn’t seem to be the case. Whatever her other huma
