Now and Forever: Time Travel Romance Superbundle by Hutchinson Bobby

Author:Hutchinson, Bobby [Hutchinson, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Time Travel Romance Super Bundle
Publisher: Sunflower Publishing
Published: 2015-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

Being female might set her apart, but it wasn't an advantage when it came to getting a job.

By three that afternoon, Hannah felt like a balloon that had lost most of its air as she made her way back to the Nugget. To avoid the stares of the men in the saloon, she scuttled around the side of the building and up the back steps. She fumbled the kitchen door open, dumping the bags she carried on the wooden counter.

It was even hotter in the kitchen than it had been that morning. Daisy and Elvira, their faces flushed and damp, were in the middle of preparing dinner. Daisy was humming to herself, browning onions over the stove.

Elvira looked as if she were about to have a stroke. Her face was scarlet, her thin blond hair plastered to her skull, her narrow mouth pursed into a knot. She was hunched over the table peeling a mountain of potatoes, and she shot a venomous look at Hannah.

"So, you've finally decided to favor us with your presence." She mopped at her forehead with a tea towel and viciously attacked another potato with a lethal-looking knife. “I hope you realize I’ve been waiting for you for three hours now. I couldn't very well go over to the hospital when your mother’s working herself to death here. That scoundrel of a boy is nowhere to be found. He’s not as slow as he seems when it comes to avoiding work. And this kitchen is no place for women in menopause with hot flashes, let me tell you."

Hannah longed to tell Elvira to put a sock in it, but instead she said, "I can take over now if you want to go and see about that job.”

Hannah had a half-peeled potato and a knife in her hand before the words were fully spoken, and Elvira was gone.

“Did you find a job, dear?” Daisy added some chopped carrots to the onions.

“Yeah, I finally did, but it took me hours." Hannah set the knife down and filled a mug with blessedly cold water from the pail, drinking it down in one long draught before she picked up the knife again. “It’s a jungle out there, Mom. I’ve got a much better idea than I had this morning of the social status of women in 1868 and, believe me, it's worse than anything I could have imagined."

She'd been confident that finding a job would simply entail presenting herself at any of the businesses along Main Street and explaining that she had an education and was eager to work. All the businesses she visited were run by men who, she soon learned, had no intention of hiring a woman to do a job a man could do. None of them were the slightest bit interested in whether or not she had an education.

She’d had several slimy offers to “keep house" for men whose rapacious eyes told her more than words just exactly what they expected in the way of services.

"Logan was right about being judged by what you wear, Mom.

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