Promising Samantha by Kathryn Kaleigh

Author:Kathryn Kaleigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KST Publishing

CHAPTER 38

Samantha woke from a nap in a cold sweat.

Daytime nightmares were the worst. Nightmares at night were expected. During the day, not so much.

She stretched out on the soft mattress and stared out the window.

She could hear the soothing roar of the river from here. And the hammering. Always the hammering.

She kept thinking about the Miller and what had happened to them. They weren’t her favorite people, but no one deserved what had happened to them.

She wondered if they had family back east.

Even if they did, no one would ever know what happened to them. Buried in an unmarked grave on the side of a mountain.

It would probably be the same if something had happened to her. Her family would never know.

Even now, with Brantley knowing where she was from. He didn’t know where her family was now.

And neither did she.

After the carpetbaggers came and took the plantation — house and land, Papa had split them up. He didn’t know where he and Mama were going to end up, but he wanted his children in good homes.

He’d sent her younger brother and sister to live with their aunt in Natchez. But they couldn’t take Samantha, too.

So Papa had sent her to the city. To New Orleans.

With his brother.

Joseph Beauchamp.

The last conversation she had with her father was a heated disagreement. Papa wanted her to marry.

Samantha refused.

She said she wasn’t going to marry anybody.

But Joseph had taken her to the convent.

And that’s where Stanley had found her.

In an effort to shake the memories, Samantha climbed out of bed and splashed cold water on her face.

That was behind her now.

She’d gotten away from Stanley and made her way west.

She hadn’t set out to go west. She’d just hopped aboard a steamboat in New Orleans and got off in St. Louis, Missouri.

Just by happenstance, she’d run into a wealthy family traveling west. They were looking for a tutor for their children. She’d used a fake name and traveled with them to Denver.

She stayed there a year before Stanley found her. She would never know how he did it.

So she went into hiding again.

It had to be destiny for her to be here.

To have found Brantley again.

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