The Journey Home by K'Anne Meinel

Author:K'Anne Meinel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781494747923
Publisher: Shadoe Publishing
Published: 2013-12-19T03:00:00+00:00

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Stephanie was having a similar problem. As the months wore on her young body craved release. She hadn’t learned to do it herself. In the time she was with Cass it hadn’t been necessary to learn. She was angry by turns for Cass’s absence, not only sexually but physically. She was angry at everyone but especially Cal for Cass not being there.

Cal was trying. His injury was healing but it was taking a long time. The crutches were well worn as he tried to do things on the farm to please Stephanie, for Cass’s sake. He wished he could leave though; the woman was a termagant and made his life a living hell. His friend Running Bow came looking for him to see why he didn’t return to the woods but didn’t understand why he didn’t saddle up the mules and leave. It was taking too long for his friend to heal here in the white man’s world. He would heal better in the deep woods. Cal tried to do too much but that backfired on him when he ripped tendons and set him back by weeks, perhaps months in healing time. Stephanie was not happy with that, she felt he was a burden and if he had just ‘been a man,’ and gone to serve in the war that Cass would be home and they would all be happier.

As the months went by it seemed to get worse and worse and Cal had to hire the work around the farm done. Others such as himself who could not serve or who by their being classified in a necessary job such as farming were left behind. He hired the harvesting done, had many of the ducks, geese, and chickens butchered and put up for winter. They simply couldn’t take care of them all. It was an accident but the turkey’s got out and he wasn’t strong enough or quick enough to stop them. Stephanie sneered at him when he told her.

“Trampled by turkeys!” she said. “A likely excuse.”

She felt he was a lay about and while he was healing he was that exactly. The added pain from his torn tendons she didn’t count. He should just get on so that he could contribute. He had never met a woman who so infuriated him.

The only highlight for Stephanie came in the form of letters from Cass. She eagerly looked forward to them and when they arrived she gladly read them aloud to the children and to Cal. It put her in a good mood for days as she carefully crafted a letter in return. She understood that she couldn’t put all of her thoughts into words as Cass might not be the only one to read the letters. Even the little letters addressed specifically to Stephanie were worded in a way that she knew Cass worried that others would read them.

When she received the pictures of Cass in a ballgown and the copies of the others she felt jealous for the first time.

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