Donald: Dalton’s Kiss: Vampire Paranormal Romance (Dalton's Kiss Book 3), Kathi Barton [8 ebook reader .txt] 📗

and held with her hands above her head. Her legs were on either side of Don, and that was when Pfeiffer decided she needed to leave them to this. They’d either kill one another or not. She couldn’t do anything to help either of them.

“I was just coming to find you. I have some things I believe you can help me out with.” She loved the older woman. Even though she looked the same age as Pfeiffer, she’d been told that she was very old. Gwyneth told her she was getting things worked out in the dining room. “I can’t stand to be in the office for too long. It’s just not me. But the way they’ve had the dining room set up, it’s a wonderful place to work.”

She looked at the mess on the table. It caused all kinds of havoc with her OCD. To her, if it wasn’t in order, you weren’t going to get things done in a good way. But she sat down and sat on her hands. It was just too much to look at, so she focused all her attention on Gwyneth.

“I’m to understand that at one time you were an accountant.” She nodded and told her she had to leave the firm when she’d taken ill. “Yes, I’ve heard about that as well. I want you to know that I know that feeling. That you can’t go on without your other half. I’m sorry if that’s too blunt to you, but I’m sure you’ve come to understand that with vampires in the house, we don’t take much in the way of chances about allowing people to be close to us.”

“Robert was my husband. When he died, he took a great part of me with him. If not for CJ and my daughters, I might well have ended my life.” She looked out the window as snow began to fall in large flakes. “He had cancer. No one caught it in time, so by the time they found it, he was too far gone for help and was dead the next week. I miss him with every breath that I take.”

“My husband was my world, too. We took in Banny to raise not long after his parents were killed. Nasty business back then when they found a vampire. But after my Bancroft was killed too, it was all I could do not to join him. Banny kept me focused in the here and now. Along with his friends. You’ll meet them all soon enough. But back to this help I need.” She grinned at her, and Pfeiffer grinned back. “I can tell you want to get this organized. You’ve already taken one of the piles and fixed it for me.”

She had. Even without knowing it, Pfeiffer had taken one of the piles of paper and put them in date order. It embarrassed her to no end that she’d been so rude. She told Gwyneth she was sorry.

“Don’t be. I’m glad to see you know your stuff. However, I need these things not just in date order, but also by company. You see, this is the paperwork I got when I took over the job as head of the school board. It seems to me that a great deal of the funding raised for the elementary school is missing. Then there is the high school, as well as the preschool program that is in place.” Pfeiffer, now that she knew she could nodded as she pulled another pile to her to organize. “I’m looking to have this information in a week if you can do that. I want to see if I can add to the sentencing of the little prick that was trying to make a profit off some of the lands the kids are now using for an educational outdoors program.”

“We had that when I was in school.” She was starting on the third pile of just putting them into date order. Then she’d work from there in getting them into business order. “I loved it. It’s where I got my need to make jellies and jams when I can. Oh my, I have some at the house that I should go and get.”

“You stay here, and I’ll send one of the men over to get it. Anything else you might need as well. Pfeiffer, there are some really dangerous men looking for you to come home so they can take you to get to your sister. She told you that, didn’t she?” Pfeiffer said she’d forgotten for a moment that they were on the run. “Not on the run, honey. Don’t think of it like that. What you are is getting to know your new family members. If the two in the other room ever come to terms with what is going to happen to them once they fall in love.”

“She was hurt once. It’s been a long time, four years now, but she was dating this lovely man, or so we thought, and CJ was ready to get married to him. The two of them seemed to be such a couple that everyone who saw them could tell they were a perfect match.” Gwyneth sat down and asked what had happened. “A week before the wedding, two men showed up at her house and said they were with the Feds. I was at her house then, or she might well have been arrested too. But they said they were looking for Peter Smirnoff. We didn’t know who that was until they showed us a picture of Mike James, the man she was to marry. They went on to tell her that he’d been on their most wanted list for a very long time, and they thought he was only marrying her for her computer jobs. Turns out, she’d been smart enough to lock her things up without him being able to get to them since they met. Good thing too. Not that he’d have been able to get into her computer—she’s