The Drifter's Mail-Order Bride by Cassie Hayes

Author:Cassie Hayes [Hayes, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian, Cowboys, Drifters, Fiction, Frontier, Historical, Inspirational, Love Stories, Mail Order Bride, Marriage, Pioneers, Romance, Short Stories, Texas, Weddings, Western
Published: 2014-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The next few days went by much the same as the first. Bart would wake up to delicious and amazing smells wafting out of the kitchen and, after some energizing banter with Bonnie, he’d head out deep into their land with his brothers. They’d return for lunch and, by dinnertime, they were all tuckered out.

By the way Walt whistled every morning, Bart suspected things were going relatively well with his new wife, at least in the bedroom. Sure, there was the odd afternoon when he came back from lunch on the grumpy side, but Walt would never complain to his brothers about his marriage. It would show weakness.

Nate had always been the quiet one of the three, and it was no different now. Bart could tell something was troubling his brother, but he didn’t share and Bart wasn’t about to ask. If either of them wanted to talk, he’d be there. Just as they’d be there for him. Not that he needed to talk.

Nope, things were chugging along just fine with Bonnie. After a long day of work, he spent one evening building a door for her room. It was the least he could do after walking in on her during that bath, the memory of which still tickled his brain at the worst possible moments.

She loved to hear stories from his travels and he never realized how much he enjoyed telling them. He didn’t even have to exaggerate most of his tales, and it wasn’t until the telling that he realized how adventurous he’d been for the last decade.

One day he came home for lunch a little early only to find Bonnie stirring a pot of stew absentmindedly while reading King Solomon’s Mines, one of the only books he ever kept. “How do you like it?” he asked when they settled down to eat.

“It’s quite entertaining,” she said, but there was a hesitation in her tone.

“But?”

“But…it’s fiction. I much prefer hearing the stories of your, what do you call them? Safaris? Even if some of the details are a little embellished.” She gave him a knowing smile that made him laugh out loud.

“You caught me! But they aren’t all fish tales.”

“Maybe you should write a book,” she suggested. He’d never really thought of it till now, but his stories were every bit as exciting as ol’ Allan Quatermain’s. Well…nearly.

“Naw, I don’t sit still long enough to even try such a thing. ‘Sides, my spelling’s right awful.”

He grabbed the last hunk of bread on the cutting board and sopped up the last drops of his soup. Hoo boy, she knew how to cook. He’d already had to move to the next notch on his belt and it’d only been a few days.

~ * ~ * ~

Bart quickly got used to leaving his work boots and dusty old hat on the porch when he came inside. He’d never been one for housekeeping, but even he could see how much work Bonnie put into cleaning the cabin. It was the least he could do to not track in half their ranch with him every day.

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