Brides of Kentucky by Lynn A. Coleman

Author:Lynn A. Coleman [Coleman, Lynn A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-68322-158-6
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2006-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

Prudence hadn’t slept a wink. First she learned that Urias had told Mrs. Campbell their arrangements concerning their wedding. Then the stranger came, giving them a message from Father demanding a dowry. Could life get much worse? Just when Urias and I are beginning to know one another, this happens.

Rolling over onto her side, she looked out the window. A light frost had come during the night. Urias needed to get those hogs to the Cumberland Gap. He couldn’t wait for her arm to heal, and they couldn’t afford any more expenses. How was he going to pay for her dowry? Father had to have some plan or reason to change the debt for Urias, but what? And if he didn’t pay, would Father release Kate?

She replayed the same questions over and over again in her mind. Pushing the covers off, she slipped on the bathrobe Mrs. Campbell had lent her and went to Urias’s room.

“Urias,” she whispered, tapping the door lightly. “Are you awake?”

Hearing no answer, she placed her hand on the brass doorknob and turned it to the right. Prudence stepped into the room and found the narrow pathway to the bed. “Urias,” she called again.

As she moved toward the bed, she discovered he wasn’t there. “Where is he?” The barn, she remembered. He wakes up before the sun.

She ran down the stairs and out the front door. “Urias?”

He leaned his red head out the door and smiled. “What woke you up so early this morning?”

She walked to the end of the front porch. She felt the chill of the air on her toes first. “I didn’t sleep.”

Urias came over to her. “What Sherman said?”

Prudence nodded.

Urias hopped the porch rail and took her in his arms. “I’m sorry. We’ll work this out. Somehow, we’ll work this out. I need to take the hogs today. The sooner I deliver them sold, the sooner we can deal with your father.”

She shivered in his arms.

He looked down at her feet. “Where are your slippers?”

“I left them in the house. I thought you were in your room.”

Urias scooped her off her feet into his arms. “Come on. Let’s get you inside.”

Prudence wrapped her arms around his neck. Her heart ached over what her father was doing to this sweet man. He’d make the perfect husband, but he’ll never be free to love me, all because of Father. She buried her head into his shoulder.

“Shh. It’s going to be all right. I don’t know how, but I know God will see us through. I might have to go home by myself and tell my parents about the situation I got myself into, but I’ll be back for you. You can’t live with a man like that. There’s no telling what he’d do.”

“Father’s never behaved like this before. I noticed some problems in his financial sheets, but nothing that would warrant cheating a man.”

Urias brushed the hair from her face, his touch so gentle, his gaze so consuming.

“You’ve got beautiful eyes, Prudence.”

She felt the blush rise on her cheeks.

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