Love And Hearts Ride West: Mail Order Bride: 16 Novella's Bundle by Indiana Wake & Belle Fiffer

Author:Indiana Wake & Belle Fiffer [Wake, Indiana & Fiffer, Belle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Western, Frontier, Clean, Historical, Anthology, Novella's, Sixteen Books, Romance, Fiction, Forever Love, Christian, Religious, Faith, Inspirational, Spirituality, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Woman, Wild West, Sisters, Marriage Of Convenience, Matrimony, Sacrifice, Responsibility, Rancher, Kidnapping, Village, Community, Courageous, Strong, BBW, Collection, Mail-Order Brides
Goodreads: 27987634
Publisher: Fair Havens Books Mail Order Bride Boxed Set
Published: 2015-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

“That is not good enough,” she said. “There is danger and I have a right to know what it is.”

Lawton turned back and stared at her in amazement. She had always been forthright with him, but he thought she would not ask this. But he was wrong Susan needed to know. She wasn’t going to back down and if he didn’t want to answer, he was going to have to leave the room.

“Every time you leave you take that rifle with you,” she said. “You’re always weary and jumpy. You don’t let us travel alone. What is out there, Lawton that has you on edge all the time?”

After looking at her for a few more seconds, he put a hand through thick brown hair that was kissed by the sun.

She could see on his handsome face that he wanted to leave. There were worry lines above his high cheekbones and his full lips were drawn tight into a thin denial.

“Tell me, I need to know or I will have to take Ellie and leave here,” she said hoping and praying that it would not come to that. How could she break her sister’s heart so?

“Are you really worried?” he asked. “I am handling it and it would be better for you not to know.”

“I need to know. I cannot handle another day of worrying if everyone makes it back safely. Knowing is better than my imagination.”

“Very well then,” he said and the tension seemed to leave him. “A band of outlaws has been tormenting all the farmlands and ranches around these parts. So far they have only taken cattle but a few weeks’ back two ranch hands were shot at and one was wounded.”

Susan listened to his words and felt her heart pound in her chest. When they came West, they did not expect gun battles and outlaws. Had she done the right thing?

“I don’t know exactly where they are or what they are after,” Lawton continued. “So I must be prepared at all times in case I come across them. That is the reason for me being on edge and the rifle I carry with me. So far, they have not made an attempt at the house but until I know what it is they are after… Until they are caught, I cannot help but be alert at all times. But I assure you and Ellie I will make sure that you, that all of you are safe.”

He promised to keep all of them safe with such a passion that Susan’s respect for the man before her grew tenfold. She had done right and Ellie’s happiness proved it. Since she had got to know him, she had seen such a protective, tender side to him. One had never imagined. Perhaps, she had been too hasty in judging him but whatever the past was, the fact was that a man like him would never desire a woman as unseemly as her. He had said to his own brother how he could not imagine facing his friends with such a fat old thing by his side.

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