A Bride For Samuel by Cyndi Raye

Author:Cyndi Raye [Raye, Cyndi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, historical western romance, sweet historical western romance, single author, united states, Short Story, short stories, westerns, mail order brides, Inspirational, Christian romance, sweet romance, pioneer and frontier, froniter and pioneer
Published: 2018-03-14T06:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 6

The riders followed the dust from Uncle Jessie’s trail. He hadn’t gone in through the main road after all.

“I know where he is going,” Callie shouted. “Follow the trail to the right.” She pointed to a small break in the road, where a worn down trail covered in dry grass led into a small grove of trees. “This will take us almost to the main house. I forgot all about this one. My Uncle Jessie is brilliant.”

“How so?”

“It will take us right behind the main house. There is a batch of mulberry trees about a foot from the pantry door. I’d say they are about twenty five feet high so no one will know we are coming. Uncle Jessie does have his senses about him. I was getting worried when I saw how frail he looked.”

“Frail body doesn’t mean the mind is too,” Samuel told her. “Let’s not talk, we don’t want to give ourselves away. I see the house roof up ahead.”

They tied the horses to the first mulberry tree, careful to keep them far enough away so no one heard them coming. The three brothers followed the path through the grove, treading as lightly as possible. Samuel had asked her to wait with the horses but when he saw her face, he clammed up and let her come along. There was no way she was staying behind.

He walked ahead of her, claiming if someone sees them and shoots, he’d get hit instead of her. She almost teared up at the thought of him taking a bullet for her. Did that mean he truly cared? Enough not to annul the marriage in three months?

Callie crossed her fingers and giggled.

“What’s so funny?” Samuel turned his head slightly and whispered.

“Oh, nothing. Was thinking about something wonderful.”

“We’re almost at the door. Keep quiet or you stay outside.”

“You bossing me around, Samuel?” She was teasing. He looked way too serious.

“You bet I am. Here we go. Callie, are you sure you want to come inside?”

“Yes. I want to see his face when-”

Adam opened the back door to hear voices coming from somewhere inside. Jacob was ranting at the cook to hurry up with his lunch before stomping out of the kitchen.

They carefully made their way inside, crowding into the back room that led through to the large open sitting room. Instead of going that way, Callie followed the hallway towards the kitchen, by-passing a large, round woman with an apron. She held a finger to her mouth.

The woman nodded and stepped back, allowing them to pass through.

As they came around the corner, Callie stopped suddenly when she looked out the large window to see the familiar faces of the two rangers walking up the path to the front door. She held up her hand and pointed. Samuel by-passed her and took the lead. He glared at her, probably because she went ahead of him. Men were so strange.

Callie had taken the lead because she knew the house better than any of them. She wasn’t about to jump out and confront her uncle without a plan of action.

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