The Sweetest Mail Order Bride (Sweet Creek Brides Book 1) by Jill Summers

Author:Jill Summers [Summers, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

-Chapter Six-

Thunder boomed across ominous skies, echoing through the valley. Clementine watched water drip off her sunbonnet brim, giving a shiver as the wind rose up. The quick summer storm had a cold bite to it. Raindrops pelted her like buckshot.

Just her luck. Couldn’t it have waited another five minutes? Honestly. She spotted Jeb’s grand two-story log home tucked on a rise and surrounded by a copse of evergreens. It wasn’t much farther now, but she feared she’d be a drown rat by the time she sought shelter on that wide front porch.

The charcoal clouds roiled, darkening, draining the last of the morning light from the sky. Lightning crackled, magnificent as it traveled in a white-hot bolt toward the mountains. She lifted her skirts to keep them out of the growing puddles of water on the road, and a trickling sensation zipped down the back of her neck. Awareness. Every nerve ending vibrated, as if waiting.

Then she heard the clomp of a horse and the jingle of buggy rigging coming around the bend in the road. She looked up, veiled by the misty curtains of rain was a familiar man shrouded behind transparent rain curtains. Dr. Caleb Blake.

His gaze met hers and the pummel of rain, the boom of thunder, the ice of the wind—all of it vanished. The only thing she could hear was her pulse drumming in her ears.

Caleb drew his horse to a halt, surprise lining his granite face. He drew back the rubber curtains and the intensity of his gaze deepened. She froze, and in that moment that became eternity, her heart stilled. Her soul sighed.

The magnitude of it was life altering, unlike anything she’d ever known. A quiet wish, the one she could not have, rose up within her. What would it be like to have the privilege to love this man?

“What are you doing out in this weather?” His forehead furrowed. “Why are you going to see my father?”

“Is there a law against it?” She tilted her head, trying for humor, for a casual smile, for anything that would help her hide her true, growing feelings.

“No, I suppose not, but shouldn’t you be on a train to somewhere? Not that I’m trying to get rid of you. I just thought you’d move on to the lucky man who was next on your marriage list.”

“I don’t have a marriage list.”

“That’s hard to believe. Surely men are lining up to marry you.”

“Funny thing, no. I only received two letters from my advertisement. Apparently I’m a hard-luck case. That’s why I wound up with you.”

His laughter was rich and honest. “Do you want a ride?”

“No. You probably have patients waiting.”

“True.”

“How is Jeb this morning?” She had to ask because he was clearly leaving his father’s home. “Surely you are keeping an eye on him.”

“He doesn’t know it, but I heard all about him cheating on me with the doctor from Hillsdale.”

Oh, those dimples. She could just stare at them forever. She blinked, forcing her gaze away from his mouth, from that smile and those lips, but failed.

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