Proving Herself by Yvonne Jocks

Author:Yvonne Jocks
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, General, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9780843949100
Publisher: Leisure Books
Published: 2001-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

This was not Collier's home.

He did what he could to make it so. Over the next weeks, he and Laurel made two more trips into town before steady snow created too many drifts and sinkholes to risk more. It was enough to pay for the jenny they'd lost and replace Collier's lost saddle horse with a gelding. And it was enough to pack in more essentials... even if Laurel implied they were luxuries.

They now had ladder-back chairs and lumber for shelves. A tarpaulin covered the dirt floor—except where they'd cut out a large circle around the stove—to protect new rugs. And they owned a proper feather bed... or Collier did. No amount of arguing or pleading convinced Laurel to try it, even alone.

But even these fundamentals of civilization hardly made the twelve-by-twelve claim shack into a home. Certainly not for a man who had once dreamed of inheriting a three-hundred-year-old Tudor manor.

A wife did not make a home, either. Not a pretend wife.

As beautiful as Laurel had looked in her bridal gown, and as glorious as waking in her arms had once been, their union was still a charade. And as one week became two, then four, he felt growing relief that neither of them had forgotten it to the point of doing anything irreversible.

At least, no less reversible than the marriage itself.

Because this wasn’t his home.

And he would do well not to forget that.

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