Chapter 29
Bridger
I’d grown much more comfortable with the Barnes family, but I wasn’t looking forward to my first meeting with them since what I did in my spare time had come to light.
But Dynassy and I had hashed things out ourselves, and decided we wanted to be together no matter the cost. Now she wanted to talk with her brothers and sister about the subject without Lucinda present. Nick and Eden had invited us all down to their home in Fresno, which was several hours away.
Lucinda had made it clear how she felt in the papers, and I wasn’t sure how the rest Dynassy’s family was going to feel about me now. I was embarrassed to see her little sister and Nick’s soon-to-be wife, Eden. I knew how respectable women felt about my line of work—they usually found it degrading, a practice th
