Montana Sky_Baling Wire Promises by Linda Carroll-Bradd

Author:Linda Carroll-Bradd [Carroll-Bradd, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical romance, Women's Fiction, victorian, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Love Possibility, Frontier & Pioneer, Cowboy & Western Romance, Hearts Desire, American West, Clean & Wholesome, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Life-Changes, second chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Kindle Worlds Novellas, Novella Length Story, short story, Protection & Safety, Action & Adventure, 19th century, Montana Sky Series, Morgan's Crossing Montana Territory, Sweetwater Springs, Entertainers of The West Series
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

By the afternoon of the third day of travel, Pete was about ready to pull out his hair. He likened their pace to a bit faster than a tortoise’s crawl. Miss Pomeroy told him the wagon jostled too much if the horses trotted, and she fretted that the nannies and kids couldn’t keep up. Steady but slow, the group just walked. Using the excuse of scouting the best route, Pete rode Blaze ahead at least once an hour to give the horse the proper exercise. Truth be told, he also wanted to feel like he was covering ground—even if he kept backtracking to the wagon’s position.

As for getting started at seven o’clock—that hadn’t happened once. Either the milking was still being done or a child awoke from a nightmare and had to be soothed or someone had to make a last-minute run behind the bushes.

The rapport he’d thought he developed with Miss Pomeroy on the rest day in camp busted apart on the first morning they readied to hit the trail. He’d come upon her attempting to fix a broken link in the harness chain with a length of baling wire. “That isn’t going to work. You need a—”

“You think providing some prairie fowl gives you the right to tell me how to manage this? I’ll have you know before you showed up, I’d driven this team miles and miles on my own. Some days, we get along on little more than baling wire and a promise. We make do with what is provided. But we’ve gotten this far, haven’t we?” She cut a length of baling wire and looped it twice through the harness chain. “And we’ll get to Virginia City, I know we will.”

He could see what was coming next as plain as day. Her gloves were too thin to handle twisting the cut ends of the wire, and he reached toward his back pocket. “Here, use—”

“Ow, fiddlesticks.” Wincing, she shook her hand a couple of times and bend back to the task.

“Let me—” He pulled on his thick gloves.

“I will not. Those children are my responsibility.” Letting the chain drop, she d slapped a hand on her chest. “Mine. And no one will take that away.” She straightened and, after a glance around, stepped closer. “Who do you think has watched over these kids? Me. Who did her best to save what supplies she could and dragged a screaming child from that fire? I did.”

He heard the rasp in her voice and saw the vacant look in her eyes as she relived the memories. Maybe she just needed to talk out the situation. With those she’d worked beside all gone, he bet she’d not shared with another soul. “Julian told me about your bravery.” A sudden urge to enfold her in his arms rose. As mad as she was, he didn’t think she’d let him.

“Who held little Kittie for hours that first night and rocked her, shushing her screams for her dead brother? I did. The

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