The Cumberland Bride by Shannon McNear

Author:Shannon McNear [McNear, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781683226932
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

’Twas a trial to watch the girl try to stay in the saddle as the day wore on, most days, but to give her credit, he never heard a word of complaint cross her lips. And the one time Thomas let himself get close enough to ask after her welfare, he couldn’t bear staying long enough for a whole conversation.

It was either put distance between them, or haul her over onto Ladyslipper, where he could ensure she’d stay put and get the rest she still so obviously needed after her injury. He didn’t think he could find enough words to justify such a thing to her father. Not without finding himself far more obligated than he wished at this point.

Why did he feel such a fool thing anyway? She’d survive this journey, or not. He’d been hired to guide and scout, nothing more. If she survived, then good—spare her family the grief, and some man down the road would be thrilled to have her as wife. And if she didn’t—well, the world would lose some of its brightness. Not to mention it would reflect badly on him.

What he couldn’t figure was this gnawing ache that surfaced at the thought of her coming to harm again. Or even at the thought of getting to the end of this journey. The growing fact that he couldn’t see anything of his own future beyond delivering them to their intended new home. He wasn’t superstitious, not the way some were, but—it was right unsettling.

Add to that—and here was where he truly needed to put his thinking—he’d seen some fresher Indian sign, and heard more rumblings at the taverns they passed about the doings of that renegade Chickamauga band to the west of them. Mostly they’d harassed settlers along the Cumberland, but there was word they might be setting their sights to the north as well.

Right where Thomas and his party were headed.

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