Grading Garnet: The Red Petticoat Saloon by Carolyn Faulkner

Author:Carolyn Faulkner [Faulkner, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2016-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

The next day, she had brought, bought, or managed to acquire, everything she needed to scour that room clean, which she set to with gusto, having hitched a ride into town early with one of Seth’s men in order to have as much daylight in which to clean as she could possibly manage. She’d like to get it done in one day—hopefully including the outhouse—then spend the rest of her time before school started to decorate and make things just so for herself and the children so that she’d be ready for them Monday morning.

The first thing she wanted to do was wash down the walls, and she had noticed a tall ladder leaning against the back of the school that looked like it might allow her to reach into the nooks and crannies near the high ceiling. With a lot of effort, she managed to maneuver it into the school, setting it up to start at the top left hand corner of one of the side walls, intending to work her way around from top to bottom.

She was halfway finished, standing at the highest rung she could in order to reach into the dusty, cobwebby corners of the room when suddenly she was no longer on the ladder at all.

Instead, she found herself lifted off of it and nearly startled to death at the same time, such that she let out a terrified shriek until she realized just who it was that had plucked her off her perch.

And before she could say a word in her defense—not that she thought she should have to defend herself to him in the least—Seth had planted a booted foot on one of the children’s chairs and folded her over it. He was so tall, and his leg was now at such an angle, that her feet were miles from the floor. Her hands were quickly rendered useless when he clamped them against her back, then pulled up her skirts and down her bloomers to set loose such a violent cacophony of smacks to cheeks that were still somewhat pink from his previous attentions that she began to both arch her back and kick her heels up, hoping to disrupt him in some way—any way at all.

He could hardly punish her more for not maintaining the proper position when she couldn’t reach it in the first place.

She was more successful with her efforts this time than she had been previously, so much so that he stopped for a moment. Looping his left arm around her waist, he carried her to her own chair behind her desk, turning it so that he could drop into it, drape her over his knee, quickly and efficiently placing his other leg over both of hers so that she couldn’t hope to move them.

Then he angled her so that he could lean himself over her in such a way that, even with her hands now free, she couldn’t get past his broad back to stop him from doing what he intended to do.

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