Mermaid of Penperro by Cach Lisa

Author:Cach, Lisa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, smuggling, comedy, humor, sex, england, cornwall, mermaid, adultery, village, c, england 1800s
Publisher: Lisa Cach

Konstanze jammed the point of the shovel into the ground, wedged it in further with her foot, then when it had sunk a few inches climbed on with both feet and bounced up and down on the top edge of the blade, trying to force it farther in. It sank another two inches.

“Stupid, stubborn piece of dirt,” she muttered, hopping off and using her full weight on the shovel to lever out the clump of dirt and grasses. Her back protested as she lifted the shovelful of dirt and flung it to the side. It landed on top of the small pile of such clumps she had made, then rolled down the front and back into her tiny garden patch.

She sighed and reached down, tossing it back onto the pile with her bare hand. What did a little more dirt on her matter?

Lacking either books or company, and unable to go wandering about the countryside, Konstanze found that boredom and restlessness had gotten the better of her and she’d decided to do something about the fallow patch of ground behind the cottage that had once been a garden. Hilde was off in town visiting some woman she had met while shopping, and Konstanze hoped to have a respectable showing of turned earth by the time she returned.

She drove the shovel in again, the blade scraping on a buried rock. The only thing about this confinement to the farm that made it bearable was that she had chosen it herself, as part of her “job” as the mermaid.

It had been a week since Tom’s visit. Usually she could fill such time—and more—with her own private musings and stories. She could spin away months in daydreams, even without the help of books. Since Tom’s visit, though, every daydream centered on him.

They were pleasant daydreams, there was no arguing that. However they might start out, they always ended with touching, or kissing, or undressing and letting him explore her body with his hands. It was quite shocking, really, what went on in her head. Thank God no one could see into it.

It was in part the very fact that she enjoyed those illicit daydreams so much that made her anxious to escape them. She had never thought that she was the type of woman who lusted after men or invited dishonorable attentions. It was the romance of love that had always appealed to her, never the physical aspect.

Her experiences in the marriage bed with Bugg had confirmed that.

She had been brought up to be modest and to take care with her honor. The required behavior had come easily to her, and she had never, not once, had cause to consider that she was the type of woman who might one day become an adulteress. A mistress. A wanton on the road to ruin.

She saw herself living in a small, over-decorated apartment, pillows strewn everywhere. She would spend her days lounging on her bed, half-dressed, waiting for her lover to come use her body.

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