Her Secret Shame by Christine Sterling

Author:Christine Sterling [Sterling, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christine Sterling
Published: 2018-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

Misty thought she would just be doing a few chores around the ranch. Cleaning, washing dishes, maybe even do a few outside activities. Beatrice had a lengthy list of tasks and put her to work immediately. First, she had to feed the chickens and collect eggs from the chicken coop. Then there was the moving of hay to the barn.

The list went on and on, until finally Misty was so exhausted she wanted to fall flat where she stood. At the end of the day, she was barely hanging on to the shovel in her hands. Beatrice had made her dig a small hole in front of the ranch house for no other reason than to punish her. Or, at least, that’s what Misty thought in her mind.

She couldn’t believe how outwardly mean Beatrice was being to her. Misty was unaware of anything she had done to anger John’s sister other than marry him. She was trying to figure out why she was acting in such a way, when she saw two gentlemen come trotting up the sidewalk. Beatrice turned to Misty, who was trying to carry in the shovel even though her arms hurt from her shoulders to her fingertips. “Misty, I need you to go inside and start preparing dinner.”

Misty was startled by the request. “But, what am I to make?” she asked, looking at the sky. It was already darkening, and she knew she had probably needed a few hours to cook anything worth eating.

Beatrice shot a glance at Misty that made her palms sweat. “Do I have to do everything for you?” she exclaimed, throwing her arms up in the air. “Just go inside,” she said, dismissing Misty to the house. Misty looked at the two men warily before she disappeared inside. Something seemed amiss. From what Misty had observed about John’s sister, she was not much of a worker. She had heard some of the girls talking in the halls about how fragile the sister had seemed. She had been poorly for a long time. Today, Misty noticed nothing of the sort; she seemed as fit as any woman she had ever met, even more so than herself. Misty knew she was a few years younger than Beatrice, but that didn’t seem to stop Beatrice from running circles around her.

When Misty had been inside for a few minutes, she was anxious to see what was going on outside between the men and Beatrice. She knew that she shouldn’t eavesdrop on her; it wasn’t polite to do. But curiosity got to her, so she walked over to the window, using the drapes as cover. She saw Beatrice, standing before the two men. They seemed to be arguing about something. She couldn’t hear much through the glass window and the wooden walls. She tried to read their lips, a skill she had mastered when she was younger and wanted to eavesdrop on her parents.

She could make out a few words, only they were talking so fast. Whatever the men were saying, it was frantic.

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