Trace (Bachelors And Babies Book 1) by Pam Crooks

Author:Pam Crooks [Crooks, Pam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Romance, Women's Fiction, Victorian Era, 19th Century, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Love Possibility, Frontier-Pioneer Era, Cowboy & Western Romance, Hearts Desire, American West, Clean & Wholesome, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Cross Country Travel, Multi-Author Collection, Bachelors And Babies, Family & Domestic Life-Young Child-Little Girl
Publisher: Pam Crooks
Published: 2019-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Funny how the place looked worse with Morgana beside him than it ever did since he’d arrived. Smaller, weatherworn and plain. The logs looked too rough, the windows too dirty. Nothing like the two-story, brand-spanking-new, seventeen-room mansion-like residence she was accustomed to living in and where he’d spent most of his time since arriving in Kansas.

“Here we are,” he said dryly, stepping up onto the porch and pushing the door open with his free hand. He’d gotten good at doing things one-armed. “It’s not much, Morgana. In fact, I feel like apologizing. Wish it were nicer for you.”

“Nonsense. It’ll do us just fine. Harriett won’t care, and neither will I.”

She wrestled the carriage over the step, and he hurried to help her, moving aside while she squeezed the rig through the doorway.

He appreciated her graciousness, but what was she really thinking when she paused in the dimness of the main room to look the place over? Made him wish he’d cleared the coffee cup and whiskey bottle from the table and picked up his dirty shirt from the back of the chair. At least, he’d yanked the quilt over the mattress on the bed, but even that looked sloppy.

“Well.” She smiled a small smile. “How quaint.”

He scowled. “You don’t have to be so nice about it. It’s not quaint and nothing like what you’re used to. Admit it.”

He strode over to the window and pulled the faded curtain to one side, chasing away the shadows. Sunlight flashed across Harriett’s face, and her features scrunched. Trace quickly turned back toward the dimness to keep her from waking.

“What I admit to, Trace McQuade, is that most people in Wallace, and likely all of Kansas, don’t live in the kind of house my mother is so determined to have.”

He grunted. “My opinion stands.”

“It won’t take long to straighten up and re-arrange a bit in here. Your little home isn’t used to having three people.”

“Not my home, Morgana. It’s just a stopping point until ...” He hesitated, and the words trailed off.

“... you get to Nebraska.” A shadow that had nothing to do with the poor lighting in the cabin crossed her face. In the next moment, though, she stood taller. “Do you mind if I move Harriett’s wicker basket to the corner, by the fireplace? We’ll use the carriage as her bed.”

“Whatever you want. You know best.”

“I don’t. Not really. But there’re a few things I’ve learned, and she does seem to sleep well in the carriage.” While she made quick work of placing the basket out of the way, she maneuvered the baby rig next to the bed and pulled out Doctor Cooper’s vaporizer and the knapsack from inside.

Trace tugged the curtain aside on a second window and caught his reflection in the mirror perched on a nearby shelf. Unshaven, eyes reddened from lack of sleep and in need of a haircut he hadn’t had since leaving Texas, he looked in as sorry shape as his cabin did.

“I’ll take her now, Trace,” Morgana said, drawing closer.

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