Bride of Paradise by Katie Crabapple

Author:Katie Crabapple [Crabapple, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sweet Romance
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

*****

They were up early the following morning to pack up the wagon and start the journey back to Dallas. For a moment, Samuel couldn’t believe the sheer number of trunks Kristen had packed to take with her. He looked at her in shock. “What’s in them all?”

She shrugged. “Mostly dresses, but a quilt I made when I was a little girl, and sheets and everything I need.” She knew it was a lot, but surely he wasn’t going to ask her to leave some of her things. She’d carefully weeded everything down to just ten trunks. He had to be able to see that she wasn’t taking much!

He stared. “Which ones are important?”

“All of them.”

He shook his head. “With that many trunks, it’s going to take us longer. We’ll have to let the horses rest a lot more.”

“Then we’ll have to stay overnight somewhere. It won’t hurt anything.” She was going to be a submissive wife, she told herself, but she had to have her trunks.

“Staying overnight somewhere would mean either staying in a hotel, and I would rather not spend the money, or sleeping under the wagon, and I really can’t see you doing that happily.” He pointed to the wagons. “Which ones do you want to leave behind?”

She folded her arms across her chest, not believing he was being so stubborn. How could he ask her to leave her clothes? Or keepsakes from childhood? He was being unreasonable. “I can’t leave any of my things. I need them all.”

He stared at her in disbelief. “So you’d rather camp under the wagon on the way back than leave anything behind?” He shook his head. What happened to the sweet docile wife he’d had yesterday?

She nodded. “I would.”

“So be it.” He didn’t know how she was going to react when she saw he barely had room for her trunks in his house. She was definitely going to have to get rid of some things when they got to Paradise.

Samuel and Albert spent the next two hours loading her trunks onto the wagon. They were heavy and unwieldy. While they worked on the trunks, Kristen and Sally made enough sandwiches to last them for the two days. Kristen didn’t say anything while they worked together, afraid that Sally would think less of her. She didn’t care, though. She needed every single thing in those trunks.

It was after seven when they finally pulled away from the seminary. Kristen waved to Sally, smiling at her. Inside, she was breaking. She wouldn’t see her parents for a good long time. “Can we drive by my house one last time before leaving Dallas?” she asked in a soft voice.

“Didn’t you say goodbye to your parents yesterday?”

She nodded. “It didn’t seem quite so real yesterday, though.” She didn’t want to cry in front of him on their first full day of marriage, but if she didn’t see her parents again, that’s exactly what she’d do. She’d probably do it anyway, she admitted to herself, but this would give her a chance.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.