Taming the Rancher: Mail Order Bride (Brides and Twins Book 2) by Natalie Dean & Eveline Hart

Author:Natalie Dean & Eveline Hart [Dean, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kenzo Publishing
Published: 2017-09-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Lizzie could not believe she had agreed to this.

And, yet, here she was. In a covered buggy, pushed up next to a lawyer and his wife, and an entirely silent banker, making her way towards the town of Laramie, Wyoming.

Of course, she reminded herself, she’d had little choice in the matter.

Lizzie had been living in a rented room in a boarding house just outside Philadelphia when she received the first letter from her sister-in-law, Bernadette, bearing the suggestion that she answer a request for correspondence “with an eye towards matrimony” from a young man in the town Bernadette lives in.

The bank had already pushed her out of her home. And, the small income her husband George had left to her when he passed on was beginning to run dry.

A new marriage was, truly, one of the very few options she had left available to her.

Not to mention, this Bill Peters sounded very suitable.

The letters she’d received were well written, descriptive and filled with eager plans for the ranch he planned to create. That ranch, truly, was one of the driving forces that caused her to accept his proposal.

After weeks of staying in her room at the boarding house, Lizzie had become desperate to feel useful again.

When she had run a boarding house of her own, there had always been something to do. Whether that be cleaning or keeping the accounting books or registering new guests.

She imagined helping to run a ranch would be similar in many ways. There would, perhaps, be more manual labor involved.

When Lizzie thought about that, she did worry that her soft, plump body might become a detriment.

Her curvy frame and thick brown hair were made for an eastern city. Not the Wild West.

However, she had always been quick to acclimate to her surroundings.

Yes, she could not help but feel a sense of contentment when she realized that she would, once again, be running a business. And, if marriage to Bill Porter was the price of a share in that business…well…that was perfectly fine.

She realized, of course, that this was not the most romantic way to describe one’s future husband but, she’d never been one for unnecessary sentiment. She had loved George. Any man who came after him would simply not compare. No matter how many good qualities he possessed.

Not to mention, the fact that she was barren would certainly put a deterrent in any attempt to make this marriage feel like the beginning of a family.

And, the fact that this thirty-one-year-old Billy Peters seemed perfectly fine with her inability to have children told her that he was looking for a business partner and not a romantic one.

This, while not ideal, would suit her perfectly.

The sense of contentment dissipated somewhat when the carriage moved over a log in the road rustling the passengers within.

The lawyer was shoved into Lizzie who, in turn, felt crushed against the window.

She had never thought much of her larger than average girth before moving west. However, in the past few days,

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