Lessie: Bride of Utah (American Mail-Order Bride 45) by Kristin Holt

Author:Kristin Holt [Holt, Kristin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, Romance, Fiction, Forever Love, Victorian Era, Western, Forty-Five In Series, Saga, Fifty-Books, Forty-Five Authors, Newspaper Ad, Short Story, American Mail-Order Bride, Bachelor, Single Woman, Marriage Of Convenience, Christian, Religious, Faith, Inspirational, Factory Burned, Pioneer, Utah, Twin Sisters, Opportunity, Two Husbands, Utah Territory, Remain Together, One Couple, New Mexico Territory, Cannon Mining, Bridge Chasm, His Upbringing, Mining Workers, Business Cousins, Trust Issues, Threats, Twin Siblings, Male Cousins
Goodreads: 27870289
Publisher: Kristin Holt, LC
Published: 2016-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Lessie and Richard joined the unmarried men in the mess hall for breakfast. The long log building was crammed with men filing in to fill their plates. Some sat on benches at tables or set against the walls while others carried their empty plates back outside.

How her husband would locate Edgar Kerry in such a mass of humanity, she didn’t know. Nearly every miner dressed in dusty trousers and coats, wore hats, seemed fully interchangeable.

But Richard did find Kerry, maybe because he stood several inches taller than Richard, who was otherwise one of the tallest men in the room. Kerry balanced a tin plate full of flapjacks and ham slices in one hand two apples in the other.

Lessie noticed Kerry’s unease, but no one said no to the boss. Richard asked to see Kerry for a few minutes.

“Yes, Boss. But, if it’s all right with you, I prefer to have this conversation without an audience.” He flicked his dark eyes at Lessie.

No hostility, no threat.

The man was watching his back— something Lessie understood fully. She could see Richard did, too.

“I’m fine here, Richard.” She glanced about the busy room, certain of it. No women about, as the men who’d brought their wives and children with them to Big Ezra likely ate in their individual cabins. But the men were so focused on their meal, no one paid her any attention.

“You’re coming with me.” Richard had yet to release her hand since they’d removed their bedding to the wagon and set out through the dark mountainside toward the mess hall. “I’ll set you up a ways away where I can keep an eye on you while Mr. Kerry and I visit in private.”

His protectiveness really was sweet. “I’ll be perfectly safe here. I’ll eat and stay inside this building. I promise.”

“I don’t like it.”

“You’ll be back before I’m through the line with our breakfast plates. I’ll hold you a place. Go on now. Mr. Kerry’s waiting.”

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