reached for her camera. “Come outside when you’re finished.
I’ll show you how the camera works, and you can do some of
the filming.” She winked. “Besides, I can’t imagine scraping
old paint off the house before putting new paint on will be
very fun.”
Cassia didn’t imagine it would be, but she wanted to do
something useful to pay Adalynn back for the hospital bills. If
this was what Adalynn wanted, then she was more than willing
to do it.
“I’ll be able to handle it. I could scrape for a few hours, then
come take a break, if that works.”
“Sure. That sounds like it would work well.” Adalynn
grinned, hoisted the camera up effortlessly in one hand and
opened the big back sliding door with the other. She was so
graceful stepping outside, shutting the door easily behind her
even while carrying her equipment, that Cassia let out a small,
frustrated groan.
She was glad Adalynn wasn’t in there to hear it.
Chapter 12
Adalynn
Adalynn had been determined that going to Vegas and
asking Cassia to stay with her would be a gesture of kindness
only. She didn’t want to expect things from Cassia, or anyone
else. She was going to pay the hospital bill no matter what.
She firmly told herself it was because she had been given so
many good things in her life, so many blessings, that she damn
well should start passing it on because that was the right thing
to do.
She never fully believed it. She wasn’t a saint by any
measure and her altruism over the past years had been sorely