A Wild Woman: Mail Order Bride of Slate Springs by Vanessa Vale

Author:Vanessa Vale [Vale, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bridger Media
Published: 2017-01-06T08:00:00+00:00

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Piper

I’d donned my drawers and shift and was fastening the last of the stays on my corset when there was a soft knock on the door.

“Mrs. Drews, it’s Celia.”

Mrs. Drews. God, I was a married woman. I hadn’t forgotten anything we’d done, how wildly I’d behaved, but I had completely forgotten I had a new name. No, no, I didn’t. I wasn’t actually married to Spur. The marriage license I’d found in Patricia’s bag had her name on it in clear print. Not mine.

“Come in,” I said, grabbing my shift from my small bag. The clothes I’d worn the day before were probably still out on the back porch by a tub filled with cold water.

Celia was a pretty woman, fair-haired and blue-eyed. She could have been Lane’s sister with the similar coloring. She appeared to be several years older than I and with a noticeable swell to her belly. She was expecting a child.

“Your hair is gorgeous,” she blurted, then covered her mouth with her fingers and laughed. “Sorry, but the color.” She sighed. “So… bold.”

I lifted a long tendril. I had yet to pin it up and I imagined it was a wild cloud about my head. It had been wet when the men had taken me to bed and I had not been given the opportunity to braid it before sleep.

“Yes, I’ve been told my personality matches.”

She dropped her hands to her belly and clasped them together. “Then we’ll get on just fine then. Tell me about yourself while you finish dressing.”

Pulling a neatly folded dress from my bag, I shook it out and stepped into it, worked it up over my hips before slipping my arms in.

“I’m from Wichita. I live… lived with my five brothers. There isn’t much to say.”

“Why did you choose to be a mail order bride?”

I glanced away and stuck as close to the truth as I could. “I left home because my family was quite overbearing. No man could get near me, and those who were interested in courting, were scared away. I wanted my own life, house, husband before I became too old to have it.”

“Your family just let you leave? If they didn’t like men sniffing around, surely they wouldn’t let you travel unescorted to a different state to marry a man you didn’t even know. Then you discovered you got two in the bargain.”

“Two was a surprise,” I replied. “And no, they didn’t let me leave. Technically, I ran away.”

“Mmm, I ran away, too, but for different reasons.” She went to the chair beneath the window and sat down. “I hope you don’t mind,” she replied, indicating with her hand to the chair. “My husbands would spank my bottom red if they found out I was standing too long.”

My mouth fell open at her words.

“Then you wouldn’t be able to sit,” I said, before thinking.

She laughed. “Yes, that’s true. So I will sit before they spank me, which makes me want to stand. That hardly makes sense, doesn’t

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