Mail Order Misfortune by Kirsten Osbourne

Author:Kirsten Osbourne [Osbourne, Kirsten]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Historical, Victorian, Western
Amazon: B00LM1SHXI
Barnesnoble: B00LM1SHXI
Publisher: Unlimited Dreams Publishing
Published: 2014-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Anna was up earlier than usual the following morning so she could have breakfast ready for Jesse before he left for work. She'd never really thought about that aspect of being a wife, and realized that she'd really been spoiled by sleeping in as late as she had most mornings that she was teaching. With school starting at nine, she'd slept until half past seven most days, eating what was left from the family's breakfast.

Now that she was a ranch wife, she felt like she needed to be up as soon as the sun was, so she could have breakfast ready before her husband was even awake. She walked outside and collected the eggs before deciding to whip up pancakes and bacon for breakfast.

As she was putting the bacon on the table, Jesse came down the stairs, his hair rumpled from sleep. He was wearing just his work pants, and she blushed, looking down when she saw his bare chest. The people who ran the orphanage where she'd grown up had been extremely careful to keep any sort of nudity behind closed doors. She had never seen a man's bare chest before, and she felt her stomach quickening as she saw her husband's.

With her eyes still averted, she said, "Breakfast will be ready in ten minutes or so. I just need to fry up the pancakes."

He nodded, noticing her discomfort at his bare chest immediately. He pulled the shirt he carried over his shoulders and headed outside. "I'm going to milk the cow. I'll be back in about ten." He slammed the screen door as he left the house, chuckling to himself. His little schoolmarm was more of a prude than he'd realized.

Anna could breathe again once he was outside. She carefully poured four small circles of the batter onto the greased skillet and watched over the pancakes ready to turn them as soon as the bubbles began to form. She couldn't stop thinking about how sexy her new husband had looked with no shirt on, and she realized that she really should try to stop thinking of him as anything other than her employer. When she thought of him as her husband, it brought back their kiss in the schoolhouse, still the only real kiss they'd shared.

Ernie stomped down the stairs and stopped beside the table. "I'm hungry." It was quite clear he hated asking her for anything, but he needed to eat.

Anna turned to him and smiled. "Good morning, Ernie. Pancakes will be done in a few minutes. Go ahead and wash your hands, so you're ready to eat as soon as the food is ready."

Ernie walked toward the pail of water she had sitting on the work table. "Yes, ma'am." He didn't seem eager to do as she asked, but he didn't seem like he wanted to disobey her either. His automatic obedience was all she asked for. Hopefully he would do it with a smile in time.

She put the overflowing plate of pancakes on the table just as Jesse came in with a pail of milk.

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