Ellie: Mail Order Brides of Wichita Falls - Book 8 by Cyndi Raye & Brides of Wichita Falls

Author:Cyndi Raye & Brides of Wichita Falls [Raye, Cyndi]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
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Publisher: Cyndi Raye, Brides of Wichita Falls
Published: 2017-06-06T04:00:00+00:00

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Ellie swung the basket back and forth while crossing the street, happy to be meeting the doctor again for another day of work. The sun had cracked over the horizon about twenty minutes earlier, warming up the prairie. Townsfolk were hurrying about, stirring dust from the street.

There was already a crowd waiting on the doctor’s porch, along with a large woman who stood out from everyone else. She was wearing a man’s hat, its large brim covering the top portion of her face. She also wore mens britches, a long sleeve shirt with a tan vest and let out a puff of smoke after pulling a pipe from her mouth. The rocker she sat in creaked from the weight of her. The closer Ellie got, the louder the sound.

Ellie remembered seeing those types of pipes in Charleston society. Men would be huddled together on the street outside of a building, their mouths puffing on pipes while the ladies were shopping, horses and carts waiting in a long procession.

“Well, lookie here, it must be Nurse Ellie.”

The loud, shrill voice stopped her dead in her tracks. Ellie wasn’t sure if she was being hollered at or welcomed.

“Come along, girlie, give your future Auntie a big old hug!” The woman stood up, her high topped boots clopping on the boards of the wooden porch while she came at Ellie like a locomotive off its tracks.

Ellie almost dodged the woman, except those big arms came around her and pulled Ellie and her basket in to a big bear hug.

“Aunt Lucy, don’t scare my bride-to-be.”

Ellie strained her neck to peek around the woman’s shoulder to find James standing at the door, his hands low on his hips. Shaking his head, he grinned at her while trying to reprimand his aunt.

“Oh, sonny, now you know I’d never harm a lick of hair on her head.”

Ellie mouthed the name sonny and giggled.

James answered with a grin. “She likes to call me all kinds of names. Come on, now, Auntie, let the lady go.”

Aunt Lucy slackened her arms but then she grabbed hold of each of Ellie’s cheeks and gave her a pinch. “You sure are a looker.”

“Why, thank you. It’s a pleasure to meet a relative of Doctor James.”

“Doctor James!” she hollered. Then she got close to Ellie’s ear and whispered loud enough everyone on the porch could hear. “You should be calling him honey and sweetums, not doctor, especially if the two of you are to be married.”

A blend of ten shades of pink covered Ellie’s cheeks by the time she was released from Aunt Lucy’s grip.

James had to pull her away. “Forgive my aunt, she over reacts at times.”

The older woman laughed. It was one of those blusterous laughs that boomed through the air like a shot from a gun. Aunt Lucy pulled back her vest to show off a pair of striped suspenders holding up her pants. She stuck her thumbs in her waistband and cackled. “I’m one of a kind, that’s what they tell me.

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