The Christmas Gift (A Wyoming Mail Order Bride Holiday 1) by Annie Boone

Author:Annie Boone [Boone, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sweet & Clean, Mail-Order Bride, Romance, Fiction, Forever Love, Christian, Religious, Faith, Inspirational, Spirituality, Bachelor, Single Woman, Historical, Series, Short Story, Marriage Of Convenience, Second Chances, Sweet Holiday Romance, Clean & Wholesome, Christmas, Frontier & Pioneer, Western, Christmas Eve, Lost Family, Wyoning, Rancher, Business Partner, Boston, Christmas Gift
Publisher: Annie Boone
Published: 2015-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Jackson Pierce was quite accustomed to doing things his way. He had every moment of his day set to a schedule. And he didn’t deviate from it unless an emergency arose. It ensured that his business would thrive and nothing made him happier. Business made his heart beat.

Marriage had always seemed like the logical next step for him. He would need a son if the Pierce ranch would live on, and the only way to make that happen was to have a wife. When Naomi Stafford responded to his ad, he had been elated. She seemed practical in her letters and having lost her family she needed him as much as he needed her. He liked that.

What he didn’t expect was for such a blonde beauty to step off of that train and capture his attention. Actually being attracted to the woman who would be his wife was not in his plan.

It was his intent to marry at once. It was efficient and it’s also how to ensure that this business deal would move forward. Getting the client to sign before they had a chance to change their mind was a valuable business skill. Once he saw Naomi, he wanted to make sure she didn’t change her mind. He also had to do it before he changed his.

He had planned for a wife, but the thought of her being pretty never entered his mind. He just wanted someone to take care of the house and raise the future kids while he ran the ranch. He really only needed a business arrangement. Now he had to rethink everything he had assumed marriage would be.

Not wanting to send her running back to Massachusetts, Jackson agreed to postpone the wedding. He took her advice and told the clerk’s office that due to a family emergency she would be arriving in a few days. He hoped that she wouldn’t change her mind. He would hate to look foolish and have to go back a third time to tell the clerk that there would be no wedding at all. He was used to holding his head high in this town.

That’s partly why he wasn’t interested in romance. Too many complications. It was far easier to handle selling cattle and horse trading than the heart of a woman. But asking for a few days was not too much to give, and Jackson wanted Naomi to be happy. She may leave if she wasn’t happy and he couldn’t have that.

She had a beautiful smile, and he hoped he would be able to make her smile quite often. This was a total shift in his thoughts and he was a bit alarmed.

The gift she had given him had thrown him for another loop. He hadn’t planned on exchanging tokens of affection on Christmas Day and certainly not before. Funny. She had only been in Cheyenne a few hours and already she was changing the way he thought about things. What was even stranger was how much he liked it.

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