Wagon Train Wedding_Christian historical romance by Linda Ford

Author:Linda Ford [Ford, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crocus Mountain Publishing
Published: 2018-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Breakfast over, everything stowed for the day’s journey, Judith sat beside Gil on the hard wooden seat, Anna playing at their feet.

So many things raced through her mind, tangling her thoughts until she couldn’t sort out one idea from another. She’d been kissed by Gil, not once, but twice. She’d even initiated the first kiss which gave him cause to think she meant—what did she mean? She’d been glad to see him, to know he was safe and she was safe. Was that all the kiss was? Gratitude. She couldn’t say. Or perhaps she didn’t want to.

She had vowed to find Frank’s stepbrother and if she abandoned her quest simply because something else had come up was she any better than Frank or his stepbrother? She didn’t think so. A person should live up to their promises and responsibilities. She had to right the wrong between the brothers. Of course, she couldn’t undo what was already done, but by getting the brother to acknowledge how his wrong doing had caused Frank to end his life, she felt she was somehow making it right for Frank. That had been her goal from the beginning, but now it didn’t seem so simple because she’d also promised to be faithful to Gil and, as he had said this morning, she was now part of a family.

There was only one way to resolve her quandary and that was to get Gil to help her find the man she sought. She’d asked him directly, but now decided to come at it sideways.

“Do all the freighters go through Bent’s Fort?”

“Bent’s Fort is on the mountain route of the Santa Fe Trail. Lots of people choose the Cimarron Cut Off and miss Bent’s Fort altogether.”

“Oh.” She did know that, but hadn’t considered how it would impact her search. “But they all go to Santa Fe in the end?”

“Pretty much, unless they end up like the wagon train we saw back there.”

She knew he referred to the one that carried the diphtheria. Frank’s stepbrother might have passed through Bent’s Fort, gone the Cimarron Cut Off or perished. That left a lot of territory for her to explore. “But if a freighter has been on the trail for a few years maybe someone at the Fort will remember him.”

“Could be.” Gil’s voice hardened. “Or it could be this stepbrother has never been on the trail or is entirely made up.”

She pursed her lips. “Are you accusing me of fabricating a story?”

“Just saying it’s easy to blame someone with no name and no address for problems.”

“You’re calling Frank a liar.”

“Just pointing out possibilities.”

She slid as far from him as she could, pretending it was so she could retrieve one of Anna’s rocks.

They rode in tense silence.

Buck called for them to stop for the noon meal.

She barely waited for the wheels to stop turning before she alighted and rushed back to the food larder to bring out the cold meal.

Gil put Anna on the ground and Judith fed her while Gil tended the animals and she ate her own meal before he returned.

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