Chapter 5
Peaceable“You lied to your mother.”
Peaceable stared at the screen. All evening, she dreaded the message from Joseph, the one calling her out on the lie that got out of control.
He was not supposed to be at the market. Her mother was never supposed to meet her fake fiancé.
“Incorrect. You do have a cargo run tomorrow,” she responded.
“And I’ll be back in time for dinner. Therefore, liar, liar, pants on fire.”
She didn’t know how to respond to that, so she ignored it and wrote, “We need to talk.”
She hesitated to invite him to dinner. When she pictured Joseph in her home, something inside her purred at the notion. She wanted him here. It was not a sensation she had often experienced.
Telling herself that they needed more privacy than they’d get in the company lunchroom, sh
