Sins of the Mothers (Texas Romance Series Book 4) by Caryl McAdoo

Author:Caryl McAdoo [McAdoo, Caryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Surprised Jethro that Moses and Lanelle jumped at the idea. Why did he think he’d have to talk them into it? Didn’t surprise him that it took half the morning to get gone, then Lanelle, bless her heart, insisted she sit in the back with the babies.

“Go ahead, Mary. We’ll take turns.” But she made sure to be the first one in the wagon.

Fun half day.

Procured ten Bibles, all used though. Didn’t run across a new one anywhere, but an idea smacked him alongside his thick skull. Paper, ink, some machinery, Elijah probably could build it; Mary said King James was long dead.

Then on the way back, after he mulled the idea over and around, he turned sideways, careful not to touch the young widow. “You know for a fact, it was in the seventeenth century when King James published his Bible?”

Making a silly face at him, she reached behind him and retrieved one of his latest purchases. “I can tell you for a fact I wasn’t alive then.” She flipped it open; read several pages then put it back, barely grazing his arm on its return. “Thought it might say, but it doesn’t. If memory serves though, I’m nigh on to certain. Yes.”

“Know anything about book binding?”

“Binding? No. Well, some I suppose, a little. They call that last one saddle stitched, but past that, not too much. Why? What are you thinking?”

“If the good king is long dead, why not print our own copies?”

“Why not indeed? Do you have that much gold, Mister Risen?”

“Maybe, I don’t know, but call me Jethro, won’t you? We are partners after all.”

She nodded, looked forward for several clops of the mules’ hooves, then glanced back to him. “I still would prefer not to be.”

He nodded. There it was. Just like he thought, the lady was only being social. She had not come because of him, as he’d hoped. She came to measure her competition, perhaps enjoy a day off with her cousin and baby.

He wanted to keep his interest in the Mercantile, but the no wouldn’t make it to his lips. He didn’t want to disappoint her. If the truth remained that she didn’t want any part of him, maybe he should let her buy him out.

Moses and Lanelle could do what they wanted. But the fine-I’ll-sell didn’t even make as far as the no.

Oh, Lord, what was he going to do?

TO FIND A WIFE IS TO FIND A GOOD THING

The words from that morning echoed in his heart, but unlike Jacob’s days, he couldn’t make a deal with her father. The young lady, quite responsible for herself, had a mind of her own, and even if…

A hand rested on his shoulder. “Jethro, wasn’t that our turn?”

He looked back at Lanelle, chuckling. “Yes, it sure is. Guess I was too deep in my thoughts.” He eased the mules to a stop, waited for the wagon behind him to pass, then backed up three wagon lengths. “Sorry about that. Been thinking about poor Jacob, how Laban had treated him so bad.

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