Husband on Credit by Lucy Evanson

Author:Lucy Evanson [Evanson, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Belleport Publishing
Published: 2014-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

If there was one thing that Cora had learned in her life, it was that you needed to be self-reliant. Her grandmother had constantly told her that she had to look out for herself because nobody else was going to do it. Cora took the advice to heart at an early age, having seen that her mother couldn’t be relied on to regularly cook for her, clean her clothes, nor do much else most times.

By the time Cora had become a woman, she had been hardened by experience, but even she wouldn’t have called herself bitter. It would have been like being bitter about snow being cold or water being wet. Life was the way it was; you came into it alone and you went out alone. She hadn’t seen anything to make her think that it was any different in between.

So it was surprising, then, when Nathan had come to her in the night. On the one hand, she’d been expecting his visit for a while now. When she had first taken him over to show him the place, she had pointedly explained which room would be his and which would be hers, so he couldn’t have imagined that they would be sharing a bed. But then again, he also probably couldn’t have imagined being married to a woman and not spending a little time together under the covers now and again. She had resigned herself to it happening sooner or later. The surprise had been learning that instead of coming to exercise a husband’s right, he was coming to talk.

Not that she was really in any mood for that either. She had retired early and tried to fall asleep, hoping to find some peace for a few hours. Slumber was the only place she had left where she was wasn’t fearful of running into Drake or more of Emma’s friends, and that was only because she hadn’t started dreaming about them. Yet.

Tonight, however, she’d been unable to get her eyes to stay shut. There was just too much looming over her, and no matter how much she told herself that it would seem better in the morning, she could no longer believe it.

Drake’s words snaked around inside her head, slithering back every time she tried to shoo them away. Marriage fraud is serious stuff, he had said. She hadn’t thought that things would ever get to this point. She hadn’t thought that her cousin’s greed would run so deep. Perhaps that was the problem: she simply hadn’t thought.

Now it was too late. She not only had Emma’s friends out there like a band of spies, doubtlessly reporting every little thing to Emma, but also this Drake trying to dig up something—anything—that could be used against her. It might only be a matter of time before she tripped up and revealed the truth, at which point she might find herself with no inheritance and maybe even worse. She had heard that up in Waupun they had a prison built just for women, but she wasn’t eager to find out.

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