Marshal's Law by Maddie Taylor

Author:Maddie Taylor [Taylor, Maddie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Time Travel, Western, Westerns
Amazon: B00H5HSRBK
Barnesnoble: B00H5HSRBK
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 2013-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

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A short time later, they pulled up in front of the house. After he helped her down, he handed her his pocket knife. Turning her toward the trees behind the house, he ordered, “Go cut two switches while I put up the horse and buggy.”

Turning back to him, her mouth gaped open. “Surely you’re joking!”

He simply stared at her, arms crossed, stern eyes flashing with anger.

“You can’t mean to whip me with a switch, Aaron. It’s barbaric.”

“I suppose you think that ill-mannered display at the mercantile was civilized.” His tone was laced with sarcasm, and Janelle flushed. She had let Louise get to her and lost her composure, but a switching seemed too extreme.

“Cut the switches no wider than your pinky. Strip off all the knots and leaves. When you’re done, go to our room and wait for me. I want you stripped with your nose in the corner this time, wife. You can spend your time there thinking about what you did in the store and how you could have handled things differently, maybe with a bit of decorum instead of acting like a vulgar, ill-bred harridan. Now go.”

Janelle stared at him, thinking he couldn’t possibly mean to do this, but his facial expression spoke louder than words—he was determined. Janelle’s stomach fluttered, and she quivered a bit inside. What in the world? Even in the middle of a major disagreement, with a whipping hanging over her head, he aroused her. She must be out of her mind. Abruptly, she turned and stomped away before she either begged him not to do this or simply jumped his bones. At the moment, she didn’t know which would be worse for her ego.

Standing in the grove, she looked at the trees, tears of anger and confusion rolling down her face. She couldn’t believe she was actually doing this. She’d already accepted his discipline by his hand and even the hairbrush, but this seemed too extreme.

Cutting her own punishment implement was one of the hardest things Janelle had ever done. The first branch she cut was too thick and rigid. Whipping it through the air, she shuddered, imagining it would feel more like a rod without any give and probably bruise her terribly. The next seemed too thin and flexible. It whipped through the air with a whistle, and she tossed it away, knowing the sting would be intense and that it would probably cut her skin. Finally, she came up with two twigs, no wider than her pinky finger as he’d instructed. She carefully removed all knots, bark, and leaves that could possibly injure her.

When she was done, she stood staring down at them, a multitude of thoughts racing through her head. Could she let him do this to her? She knew he felt strongly that it was his job to correct her ‘bad behavior’, but she was an adult and had been used to making her own decisions for quite a while. She didn’t need a guardian, she grumbled aloud as she broke the dreadful twigs and threw them on the ground.

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