Love a Dark Rider by Shirlee Busbee

Author:Shirlee Busbee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Orphans, Western, Historical
ISBN: 9780380752133
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1994-05-14T23:00:00+00:00

Bartholomew and Tansy? If you were dead, Yancy could still have Paloma, but he wouldn't be shackled to a wife he never wanted! Bartholomew and Tansy would have a fortune and they wouldn't be bound to a run-down, worthless bit of dirt in the wilds of this godforsaken country! Do you really think that after having been a slave most of his life, despite his Cantrell blood— or perhaps because of it—Bartholomew wouldn't leap at the chance to gain a fortune? Or that Tansy hasn't been resentful of her position? No one denies that there is a strong bond between Yancy and Bartholomew. They could have planned it!" Ann's eyes filled with tears. "Oh, Sara, don't you see that I'm only trying to help you? For once stop thinking of me as your enemy and realize that I am trying to help you!"

"Yancy wouldn't.. ." Sara got out from between stiff lips, her thoughts whirling. It was Ann's manner rather than what she was saying that had shaken Sara and made her listen to what the other woman was saying. Coupled with Ann's apparent concern and candor, her words made a terrible sort of sense, but Sara fought against the idea of even considering that there might be a hint of truth in what Ann had said. Clinging to the one thing she believed with all her heart, she muttered, "Yancy wouldn't harm me!"

Ann gently turned Sara around to face her, and kneeling on the floor before her, she clasped Sara's limp hands in hers. "Listen to me!" she began fiercely. "You are so young and innocent. You don't know the blackness that is within some people. Right now, all you see is Yancy's handsome face and his charming manner. But he is the vilest blackguard imaginable. You must believe me!"

"Why are you doing this?" Sara asked dully, all her earlier pleasure in the day utterly destroyed. She didn't want to think about what Ann was saying; she didn't want to give credence, even for a moment, to the terrible

possibilities Ann was putting before her. She didn't trust Ann; she did trust Bartholomew and Tansy, and yet. . . Her green eyes full of misery, she demanded desperately, "What do you possibly hope to gain by these lies?"

"Nothing! I simply want you to think about what you are doing! Stop the wedding. Don't tie yourself to a man who may have already murdered one woman."

Painfully Sara said, "If there is even the faintest hint that what you say is true, wouldn't my marrying him ensure my safety? If I become his wife, wouldn't he be assured that his child would inherit Paloma? He wouldn't need to kill me to accomplish that!"

Ann smiled pityingly. "And what about afterward? What about after your child is bom? Yancy wouldn't need you anymore! You would have served your purpose. And Bartholomew and Tansy? Do you think they are just going to calmly stand by and allow you to give birth to a child who

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