A Texan's Honor by Leigh Greenwood

Author:Leigh Greenwood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781428504479
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Published: 2011-07-27T19:24:21+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Emily didn’t know what moved her to put her arms around Bret and cling to him as though her life depended on it, but she felt better for having done it. She supposed she’d finally faced up to the fact that her father was dying. After he died, she’d be alone in the world. It didn’t matter that she had relatives in Boston. She barely knew them, and didn’t like the little bit she did know. They thought everyone in Texas was a barbarian, and she thought they were monumental snobs. They were ashamed of her father and had no reason to like her any better. Except for Joseph, she didn’t like anybody in Boston.

She had the additional problems of rustlers and knowing that somebody she’d trusted had betrayed her. Now she was faced with the problem of finding a husband—or at least pretending to look for one. She might be able to fool Bret, but from what he said, nobody fooled Isabelle for long. And though Emily was very curious about her and anxious to meet her, she didn’t know if she’d like living with her for four months out of the year.

And what about the other eight months? Even after Bret got rid of the rustlers and uncovered the traitor, she’d be alone on the ranch. If one of the men could betray her, there was no reason others wouldn’t. She’d never felt alone or overwhelmed before, but right now everything seemed to be weighing down on her all at once. And it didn’t help that her father had spent thirty minutes right after Bret left telling her how worried he was about her. By the time she’d followed Bret to where he was standing on the hillside, she’d felt desperate to have something, someone, to hold onto.

Now here she was wrapped around Bret like a vine, feeling better than she had all day, yet wondering how she was going to explain her behavior to him. He’d been sent to convince her to move to Boston. Nothing had been said about his taking responsibility for her life.

She felt his arms go around her, hold her close, and she felt a little less desperate, a little less fearful that he would back away. She couldn’t explain why she’d trusted this man almost from the first, but there was something about him that was strong and unbending, something inside him that was evident in everything he did, said, was. He seemed to have a lot of questions about his life, maybe even about himself, but as time passed, she had fewer and fewer doubts. The message grew stronger every day, every hour. This was a man a woman could depend on.

“Are you feeling a little shaken?” Bret asked.

She nodded her head against his chest.

“You don’t have to worry that you’ll be left alone.”

“You’ll go back to Boston as soon as you find the rustlers. There’s no reason for you to come back until it’s time for me to go to Galveston.

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