Once Upon The Prairie (The Brides Of Courage, Kansas, Book 1) by Lenny Davis

Author:Lenny Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Sharaya Lee

Chapter 10

Mina woke up a couple of times during the night. A nightmare in which a big black bird came down and pecked her head with its long beak had tormented her. She had put her arms up to protect herself. The bird had just kept on pecking. But when she awoke, there was nobody.

Feeling drained and exhausted, Mina got up as soon as the first rays of the sun kindled the eastern sky. The birds outside were singing cheerful tunes. They knew nothing about the troubles that beset the life of humans like her.

She staggered over to the dresser and poured water from a pitcher into a wash pan. The cold liquid on her hot skin felt good when she bathed.

A glance in the mirror revealed that she had big circles under her eyes this morning. She looked ten years older than yesterday. Like an old woman, really, even though she was barely twenty-five.

The pain of her miserable existence weight on her again as she ran the comb through her long tresses. Today she would have to tell Neville that she had taken ten thousand dollars from the safe in his office.

How would he take it? How would he react?

Would he beat her again?

Would he horse-whip her?

Would he turn her over to the Black Thirteen, for them to rough her up?

She gave a bitter laugh.

If he turned her over to the goons to punish her, the very men that she'd saved from certain death would be punishing her.

What a joke!

The joke was on her. Of course.

Perhaps she should have simply let Jesse Bartleby have his way with them.

No.

She was thinking nonsense. Neville wouldn't turn her over to the goons. He'd never done that. This was just her fear talking. He might try to slap her around a little, but that would be that. Neville could be a charming fellow, too. She just needed to learn how to get him to be charming to her again. Surely, there was something that she could do.

What a lame attempt at consolation, she thought. She shrugged. She was stuck in a bad marriage and had to make the best of it.

And no, Jesse Bartleby, I will not be thinking of you today. She acknowledged that thinking of him gave her a lot of pleasure. But it was just not right.

Tense with frustration, Mina dug her nails into the handkerchief in her hands.

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