No Other Love by Shannon Drake

Author:Shannon Drake
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9780380781379
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1997-06-30T21:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Feeling more confused than ever about her marriage to Sloan, Sabrina spent the following day moving Sloan's belongings into one set of the dresser drawers and unpacking the few things that Meggie had sent along for her.

She found a soft aqua dress with an underskirt of linen and an overskirt of wool and chose it as a serviceable gown for the day. When she had dressed, she combed and pinned up her hair, opting for dignity—since she knew that sooner or later she was going to meet up with the gossips who had been discussing her.

Around sunset, there was a knock on her door. When she opened the door, she saw that it had stopped snowing.

The evening was very cold, and her visitor's breath fogged before her.

"Hello, Mrs. Trelawny. I'm Cissy. I met you at your sister's house the other night."

"Of course," Sabrina said. Cissy. The giggler. But she smiled sweetly enough now. "Come in, please."

"Oh, no, I've come for you. A number of the menfolk are busy playing soldier with their maps and plans, and we thought—well, we were hoping that you'd join us. Maggie Calhoun, Tom's and Colonel Custer's sister, has planned a nice supper . . . we'll have sherry and talk, and hopefully the men will be along before the roast pheasants turn into stones!"

"Why, that's very kind, but—"

"Oh, do come!" Cissy encouraged her. "Please? We might all have been terrible gossips the other night, but we do form some tight bonds out here. I mean—we never do know if our men really will come back or not each time they ride out. It's not easy being army women. We're not half so bad as we may have seemed. Honestly." She grinned suddenly. "Besides, if you join us, we can't talk about you behind your back, right?"

"You've a point."

Sabrina found herself smiling, and she remembered that she wasn't accustomed to spending time feeling sorry for herself. She moved forward and lived life, no matter what obstacles arose.

Besides, if she had enemies among the women at the fort, she wanted to know exactly who they were.

"Thank you. Thank you very much for the invitation. Just let me get my cloak. Perhaps I should leave a note for Major Trelawny—"

"Don't worry. He'll know where to find you."

As she walked with Cissy, the other girl pointed out the different buildings at the fort and explained what they were used for. "Officers, of course, get very nice quarters. Well, perhaps they get nicer quarters in the East, and this may all appear a bit rustic, but..."

"Sloan's quarters seem fine," Sabrina said.

"Oh, I'm glad," Cissy told her. "I do hope you'll be happy here."

"Well, I do admit, it's a different life from what I'm accustomed to,"

Sabrina murmured. She added dryly, "I've already met such interesting people."

"Well, I'm not quite sure whom you've met as yet, but I suppose that circumstances do make us interesting people, at the least. Please don't judge us too harshly," Cissy said. "We do live a strange life," she added, then gave Sabrina a searching glance.

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