Daisy by leigh greenwood

Author:leigh greenwood [greenwood, leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-05-13T14:48:19+00:00

"The snow has melted over much of the mountain," Tyler announced at dinner that evening. "I think we'll be able to get through tomorrow."

"Good." She didn't feel like saying anything else. She felt empty. He was getting rid of her.

"My brother and his wife are in Albuquerque awaiting the birth of their first child. I plan to take you to stay with them. That way nobody need ever know that you haven't been with them the whole time."

"Will your brother agree?"

"Of course."

"And his wife?"

"She'll do anything she can to help."

Anything they can to help get Tyler off the hook. She would be the one to suffer the consequences of these last few days, not he.

"You will be able to stay with Hen and his wife until your friends return from Santa Fe."

"I don't have any money." She hated making that confession.

"Hen will see to anything you need."

He and Zac were certainly free with their brothers' money.

"I want to thank you for all you've done," she said after a long pause. "I know I've been a lot of trouble, and now with everything going wrong.. ."

"Don't worry about it. Everything will be right as rain in a few days."

She thought of her hair, the scar on her head, the scar in her heart. Things would never be right again.

They said little more for the rest of the evening. Daisy retired to her comer.

She had become rather fond of the little space. It gave her more privacy than she had enjoyed in her own home. But then things here were different from her home. Her father could never stand for her or her mother to be out of his sight for more than a short time. Since he didn't like other people, that meant they had no social life.

Here Zac and Tyler had organized everything around

her. That didn't happen even in Adora's home. Mr. Cochrane ruled just as absolutely as her father. Adora had never heard her mother or Guy question anything he said. Even though Guy was easygoing, he showed signs of expecting his home to be much the same. Daisy would have accepted that if she had married him before she met Tyler. Now she didn't know what she would do.

Any man she did marry, if she could find one to marry her now, would probably be even more demanding. She had noticed the poorer the man, the more he expected of his wife. She didn't know enough of society yet to understand that, but she did know what she had seen.

Poverty made a slave of women. She decided if she were going to be poor, she would be poor by herself. She wasn't going to be a slave to anybody.

But that brought back the frightening thought of having to make it alone, and she didn't know a thing about surviving on her own.

Tyler tossed and turned in his bed. Despite trying all day to put it out of his mind, he was still furious at Daisy for what he felt was a betrayal.

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.