Jericho (Bridgette's Bridal Registry Book 1) by Patricia PacJac Carroll

Author:Patricia PacJac Carroll [Carroll, Patricia PacJac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PacJac Publishing
Published: 2020-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Jericho prayed to leaden skies and felt that was about as high as her prayers went. Who was she kidding? God wouldn’t want a harlot either. After a few minutes, she went back to her hotel room.

She skipped dinner. Set Francesca’s dress aside and put on her light blue skirt. In the mirror, Jericho thought she looked decent, but it was a lie. She wasn’t. She was a harlot. Stained by many. Wanted by none.

She let the thoughts rumble in her mind. She might as well find a saloon and take up where she’d left off. What a fool she’d been to think she could be anything but a saloon girl.

Jericho didn’t blame Bridgette. Perhaps she should have told her right off. But then, it was doubtful that Bridgette would have been able to find her a man.

She grabbed the complimentary bottle of wine that the hotel had put in her room. She’d avoided it all this time. Now, it winked and offered her escape. “Drink me, and the world will go away.” It seemed to whisper.

A lie. She knew that too. For the world was always there when she’d come out of her drunken stupors. She had no desire to go back to that lifestyle. Looking away, she glanced out the window to the town.

Was there one man who wouldn’t mind having a used woman? She watched the people walk up and down the street. Darkness was approaching, and the light to the saloon begged for the lonely to come.

How many years had she wasted in the pit of lies? Come on in, they enticed. Wine, women, the chance to win money. All of it lies. So many ruined lives. How many had she led astray?

As she watched men go into the saloon, she thought back to those she’d fleeced. The young ones looking for fun only to be sent onto the wayward side of life. The desperate ones. Lonely ones looking for love only to be used every bit as much as she had been.

Finally, late at night, sleep took her, giving her a reprieve from the misery that had become her hope.

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