Charity: Mail Order Brides Of Wichita Falls Book 4 by Cyndi Raye

Author:Cyndi Raye [Raye, Cyndi]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Mail order brides,romance,short story, short reads,inspirational romance,christian romance, religion & spirituality,genre fiction,western frontier,crhistian fiction,clean&wholesome,historical western romance,20th century,family life,second chances,short story,clean & wholesome,
Publisher: Cyndi Raye
Published: 2016-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Daniel stomped through the hotel entrance like a man on a mission. Except there was no mission to accomplish. He had to get away from those deep sensual eyes that looked at him as if he were a man who could do no wrong.

“Well, what’s gotten up your crawl this afternoon?” Ben asked, looking up from the boxes of books that were delivered a few minutes ago.

“Had to get away from the newsroom. A bit stuffy in there.” His words were clipped. He didn’t want to talk about Charity to anyone, except Ben’s prying eyes said different.

“Could it be the bride has got you all full of angst this day?” Ben welcomed Daniel with a friendly nudge on his shoulder. He picked a book from the box and shoved it at Daniel. “If you came for a pity party, at least help.” Two more books were thrown his way.

“What is it about women that makes a man want to stop dead in his tracks?” Daniel walked along side of Ben as they carried the books to the make-shift library.

“Lily makes me feel that way every single day. It’s called love.”

Daniel shrugged. “I doubt I love Charity. We haven’t known each other long enough. She sure is spunky and makes me feel alive though, more so than I ever thought possible. You wouldn’t believe, ah, never mind.” He stopped talking the moment Lily came bursting in the room with another pile of books.

She stopped when she saw Ben wasn’t alone. “Daniel, how are you? How is Charity getting along?”

“She is fine. Right now, she’s finishing up some food and going through our old newspapers. Trying to familiarize herself with our town.”

“Oh?” A troubled look came over Lily. She shuffled through the pile of books until she came across the one she wanted. Pulling it close, she nodded more to herself than anything. “The newspaper can’t tell her anything that’s imperative. I’ll go on over there and I’m taking this Bret Harte book along. It’s a view of the frontier by a San Francisco journalist. She’ll need it to familiarize herself with the western world. I hear she’s from Chicago.”

Daniel grinned. Lily’s tone made it sound as if Chicago was a foreign world somewhere across the continent. He watched as Ben took his wife’s arm and pulled her close, giving her a quick kiss. “Enjoy yourself, my love.”

She placed a hand on his cheek, kissing him back and smiling at him as if Daniel weren’t there at all. Daniel had a deep desire for a relationship like that, he realized. One that made the world seem as if nothing was as important as the two of them. He ached for the kind of companionship they had, even if he tried to deny it over and over again.

“Bye for now, Daniel,” Lily sang and waved before bustling through the door without a backward glance.

“Charity will be glad for the company.”

She’ll probably question Lily to no end. He knew there was something that was distracting her since she interviewed the last of her cowboys from the saloon earlier.

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