Lottie_Bride of Delaware by Kit Morgan

Author:Kit Morgan [Morgan, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, Romance, Fiction, Forever Love, Victorian Era, western, First In Series, saga, Fifty-Books, Forty-Five Authors, Newspaper Ad, short story, American Mail-Order Bride, Delaware, Clear Creek, Hi-Jinx, Snooping, Co-Workers, Theory, Truth, Silly Notions, Journey, Business, Groom, Bachelor, Single Woman, marriage of convenience, Christian, Religious, Faith, inspirational, Factory Burned, Pioneer
Goodreads: 27418027
Publisher: Angel Creek Press
Published: 2015-11-19T05:00:00+00:00

Nine

Lottie stared in awe as the landscape rolled by. They’d spent the night at his hotel, a small one not far from her house. It also had a small bed, so Sam had offered to sleep on the floor their first night together.

His suggestion made her sigh in relief. She didn’t want to get to know (in the Biblical sense) her husband on a rickety bed meant for one. He obviously didn’t either, and was willing to wait to exercise his husbandly rights. The same held true the next night on the train, though there they hardly had a choice – they slept sitting up in their seats in the passenger car.

“Does it hurt bad?” she asked, watching him rub the back of his neck.

“I beg your pardon?”

“Your neck. I’m sorry if it’s bothering you …”

“Quite all right – I bought the tickets, you recall, so I knew what I was facing. Though hardly ideal for our first nights together, I admit. But I have something else in mind for our wedding night.”

She smiled. “What wedding night? This is the fourth day of our marriage and we haven’t had one yet – not really.”

He laughed, reached over and took her hand in his. “Tonight might be different. We’ll be stopping someplace with a better hotel.”

Lottie froze. Tonight might well be the night she became a real woman. She and Leora had often wondered what the marriage bed would be like, but just as often shied away from the subject. After all, it was like the blind leading the blind. Neither one knew anything about it, and had been too nervous to ask. When one got right down to it, their ignorance at their age of what went on between a man and a woman was embarrassing.

Lottie wished she’d have gotten up her nerve and asked one of the married women from the mill. What if Sam wasn’t pleased with her? What if it hurt? What if she hated the act? “Oh dear.”

Sam slid his arm across the back of the train seat as he turned toward her. “What’s the matter?”

“Oh, uh… nothing. Just thinking about something.” She blushed at the lame answer, but what was she to do? If you must know, I’m scared to death about tonight … No – he’d think she was just a silly woman. Or was she? Didn’t most women go through this when it came to their wedding night? She recalled snippets of conversation from her fellow roommates on the subject: Oh, I hear it’s terrible! A man does what? I’ll never survive it! Then the infamous you’ve got to be joking!

Perhaps ignorance really was bliss.

“Where are we?” she asked to change the subject.

“About a hundred miles out of Buffalo. We’ll be stopping there in a couple of hours, then pick up another train west tomorrow. In the meantime, we can eat, then go to bed.” He put his arm around her. “I could use a hot bath as well.”

“Shameful!”

Lottie and Sam turned as best they could to see who’d spoken.

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