Teton Romance Trilogy Bundle (Includes short Story Yellowstone Proposal) by Peggy L Henderson

Author:Peggy L Henderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peggy Henderson

Chapter Nineteen

Joseph guided his horse along the banks of the wide stream. Thin wisps of smoke rose skyward between the trees, the only indication that the Bannock village was around the bend of the waterway. Rather than wait in camp for Sophie’s private meeting with Two Bears to end, a solitary ride was just what he needed to mull things over in his mind. Up ahead, an old abandoned beaver lodge hindered the water from flowing along its original course. The creek had long ago altered its channel around the dam.

With his eyes scanning ahead, and his ears trained on any unusual sounds, Joseph dismounted his horse and allowed the gelding to drink from the water. With his rifle cradled in the crook of his arm, he wandered through the thick sage. What did he expect to find? If the shooter had followed him and Sophie today, this provided a perfect opportunity to take another shot. The man could be concealed behind any one of the numerous conifers that blanketed this area.

His mind wandered to Two Bears. Disturbed at the frail condition of his long-time friend, Joseph wished he had returned sooner. The look of joy in the old man’s eyes when Joseph told him that he brought Raven back to him gave him a small spark of hope that Two Bears would recover to his former health.

Sophie. Raven. A soft smile spread across his lips. She loved him. She loved the Tetons. His future couldn’t look any better. He was eager to ask her to be his wife. They would have to wait until spring to be wed, though. There were no white settlements close enough to find a preacher who could marry them, so he would be forced to wait until he could take her to Fort Laramie or another army outpost and see about getting married.

Joseph chuckled. How was he going to survive the long winter months with her so close, yet so far out of reach? He couldn’t keep his hands to himself now; he’d surely go insane once the snow began to fall. Sophie’s passionate responses whenever he held her and kissed her drove him beyond the brink of rational thought.

His own parents didn’t have a wedding in the traditional sense at first. His father had laid claim to his mother at a trapper rendezvous, and they only married in the church a year later. How would Sophie react if he said he wanted her to be his wife without benefit of a real wedding?

She hasn’t even said she’d marry you, fool. Don’t put the cart before the horse.

What if she wanted to return to Boston for some extravagant wedding there? Joseph mentally shook his head. He knew her well enough by now that those things didn’t matter to her, even though she had grown up spoiled and pampered.

Movement across the creek caught his attention, and Joseph gripped his rifle, only to relax his hold a second later. A moose emerged from the thicket, and waded through the creek.

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