Honor-Bound Lawman by Danica Favorite

Author:Danica Favorite [Favorite, Danica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-03T14:32:55+00:00

Chapter Ten

Laura managed to keep the girls busy in the library while she set the kitchen to rights. She’d made a big mess of things, but at least this disaster was one she could easily fix.

She grabbed the bucket to go out to the well, and when she opened the back door, she saw the rooster sitting there, as though he was expecting to be let in.

“Did you want to come inside? I have to get some water first, then we’ll help you out, all right?”

The rooster cocked his head as though he understood exactly what she was saying. Then he followed her to the well, where he seemed to wait patiently while she drew the water. Clearly she was crazy for giving a rooster such human attributes, but after today, Laura couldn’t say she was sure of her sanity anymore anyway.

Once she got the water, she turned to go back to the house, and the rooster followed. Silly bird.

She set the bucket on the table then glanced at Henry. He wasn’t wearing the contraption to prevent him from making a mess all over the floor. She wasn’t going to scrub the kitchen only to have to redo everything to get rid of rooster droppings.

“Hi, Henry,” Laura said, bending down to the bird. “Do you think I could pick you up? Would that be all right?”

Though she’d seen everyone else carrying the rooster around, she’d never even touched the creature. Henry looked at her like he thought she was crazy. She probably was.

She bent and gently picked him up, trying to remember how she’d seen the girls do it. And, just as she’d observed with Owen carrying Henry around, she tucked him into her arm like a baby. The rooster seemed content with this arrangement, so Laura carried him into the library.

“Hello, girls.” Laura smiled at them. “Henry wanted to come inside, but he’s not wearing his um, covering, and I don’t want him to make a mess.”

The girls giggled as she stumbled over the word, covering, then Anna smiled at her.

“We can help you. You have to do it a special way so that you don’t hurt him,” she said, reaching for the rooster.

Though everyone had said Anna was the shy one of the twins, Laura had noticed the opposite. Where Emma barely spoke to her at all, Anna seemed to have taken to Laura. Which was so frustrating, considering the fact that Laura had been telling herself not to get attached.

It seemed so unfair that the girls’ natural mother had thrown them away when Laura would have given anything to realize her dream of having children. She almost hated knowing the story, even though it had given her a lot of answers about the family.

Someone had suggested that Laura adopt a child from an orphanage, but no one would give a woman on her own a chance. People wanted a family for a child, not a divorced woman with a scandalous past. The scandal wasn’t even her own doing, but it didn’t matter.

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