Snow Brides by Webb Peggy

Author:Webb, Peggy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Westmoreland House
Published: 2020-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

1:00 p.m.

Jonathan was beyond hunger, cold and fatigue. He battled through the whiteout with one driving force. When this blizzard was over he was going to find the woman who had done this to him, and he was going to torture and kill her.

He screamed her name, fueled by rage. The blizzard wasn’t going to get him. Nothing was going to get him before he made Kate pay for everything she’d done to him. No woman slapped him, rejected his advances then spurned the home he offered and lived to tell about it.

He stumbled over something in the snow. A rock, a root, a fallen tree? He couldn’t tell until he landed on his bruised leg. There was something solid underneath. A floor! He reached blindly through the snow. A wall! A door!

Jonathan kicked it in with his good leg then stood, disoriented and disbelieving, blinking his frozen lashes. A log burned through, crackling as it shot sparks. The fire was not a hallucination. It was real.

Jonathan hurried to the blaze and squatted in front of it with his hands outstretched. Gradually his shivering calmed to a manageable level.

“Hello?” he called. “Is anybody home?”

He waited for the answer, swung his gaze to every corner of the room for some old codger to rise up out of his easy chair and offer him a cup of coffee. A warm blanket. Some ham and biscuit.

Jonathan was starving. He’d had nothing since breakfast that morning, and even two helpings of everything hadn’t prepared him for stomping around in a blizzard looking for his bride.

His ex-bride, he reminded himself. She could be replaced as easily as the other two.

Easier than Jennifer. That’s the one he’d debated with himself before killing. That’s the one he’d almost let loose in the wilderness just to see if she’d live, just to see if she’d come crawling back to him.

She’d begged. She’d promised to be good, to do anything he wanted, any way he wanted it.

She even swore that he was the father of her baby.

Jennifer came to him as plainly as if she’d suddenly appeared in the cabin and was standing there all big-eyed and scared.

“I didn’t sleep around,” she said. “I swear to you.”

“Don’t lie to me. My mother saw you sneaking out.”

“No! She’s the one lying.” While he positioned the arrow in his bow, she’d put her hands over her belly. “Please, please! Don’t kill me! If you do the baby dies, too.”

“Do you think I care about some other man’s brat?”

He still remembered the look of surprise on her face when he pulled back the bowstring and the arrow flew through her heart.

“Now, see what you made me do.” He’d knelt to arrange her in the snow and place the wedding veil on her head. “This hurts me more than it hurts you.”

She was lying there so peaceful. “What did you think would happen out here? That I brought you all this way for a stupid wilderness wedding?”

He bent down to kiss her. She was perfect, really, with the ice crystals already forming in her eyelashes.

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