Edwina_Bride of Connecticut by Margaret Tanner

Author:Margaret Tanner [Tanner, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, Romance, Fiction, Forever Love, Victorian Era, western, Tennessee, Boston, Mail-Order Bride, Connecticut, Railroads, Horse & Carriage, Reluctant Groom, Scheming, family drama, Bachelor, Single Woman, Escape, Marriage Proposal, Mistaken, Charade, Deceived, Fifth In Series, saga, Fifty-Books, Forty-Five Authors
Goodreads: 27424174
Publisher: M. Tanner
Published: 2015-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Life settled back to normal. No sign of Joshua. Eddy tried to tell herself she didn’t care, but she did. Her heart ached, but there was nothing she could do about it. You can’t force someone to love you. You’re a fool, for caring so much.

Amy quickly recovered from her shock and distress, and even though she waddled rather than walked, was back plotting and planning to get Joshua jealous.

Her latest idea was a small ‘getting to know Eddy’ gathering one Sunday afternoon. This was quickly postponed, when the Cavendish family, who were neighbors, invited them to a pre-Thanksgiving shindig in their barn.

“Perfect,” Amy gloated. “There will be so many young, single men in attendance, you will have to fight them off with a stick.”

“You are incorrigible.” Eddy laughed.

“You still want Josh, don’t you?”

“Yes, but…”

“No buts. You want him, you fight for him. Josh hates being beaten at anything, always did.”

“I’m not a fairground prize.” Eddy couldn’t hide her indignation. She wasn’t that desperate.

“No, you certainly aren’t, you’re much more. He realizes that, but is too stubborn to admit he cares for you; he does, I’m sure of it.”

“You can’t make him love me if he doesn’t want to.”

“Of course he loves you, only needs a little competition for him to realize how much you do mean to him, and to get him to admit it.” Amy’s eyes gleamed. “He was enraged when Tom told him what happened at Simon’s. He wanted to ride out and search for the Nesbitts until he found them. I swear, Tom said he was set to kill them. Savage as a meat axe he was.”

“That was because of you and Simon, not me.”

***

Josh tied his horse to the hitching post in front of the Cavendish homestead. Light spilling from the barn bathed the garden in a flickering, mellow light. He felt anything but mellow. All those young bucks gawking and drooling over Edwina. Dang, they had no right. He knew what would be going on in their lecherous minds. Pretty young woman were scarce out here, and she was more than pretty, she was exquisite.

The thought of another man touching her beautiful hair, seeing her as he had done, next to naked in the firelight in the cabin, was like being boiled in hot oil. Making love to her? He almost buckled at the knees. Pain knifed into his gut until it became so unbearable he groaned out loud. As for those Nesbitts, they wouldn’t live if they ever made the mistake of crossing his path.

He strode into the barn, shoving his gloves into his pocket, hanging his coat and hat next to a dozen or more others. The barn was enclosed, and roaring fires burned in a huge fireplace at each end.

Old Henry Jackson played the fiddle, and the barn floor was crowded. Edwina, her magnificent hair hanging in curls down her back, was dancing a polka with the Bank Manager’s son, Geoffrey.

What a graceful dancer she was. He would bet his last dollar that the green dress she wore would enhance her lovely eyes.

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