Wedding Matilda (Redcakes Book 6) by Heather Hiestand

Author:Heather Hiestand [Hiestand, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Google: OxxjBgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 26632907
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2015-08-17T23:00:00+00:00

Matilda felt too agitated to sit, so she’d spent a fair amount of the day pacing around her home. Greggory had been by with a great deal of paperwork to go over. She’d signed the documents without really looking at them. How long had it been since she’d visited the factory or her office? She couldn’t find the energy to care. Everything showed on her cousin’s face, so if there had been anything important to do she’d have known by his expression.

Her father had paced with her at times, not complaining about her lack of attention to the business, while her mother sat in front of the fire, remarking on a chill that was not actually in the air.

The desolate peace of the parlor was disturbed when Gawain and Ann entered the room at teatime. Her brother slapped a sheaf of papers on the piecrust table at the side of one sofa.

“Your special license,” he announced. “If you still want to marry Bliven.”

Matilda stopped on the rug in front of the window. Hadn’t she called Gawain off? Perhaps not.

“Why wouldn’t I want to marry him?” she said, picking up the papers to peruse them. She had dreamed that if she married Theodore, a knock would come at the door and Jacob would be there. Why couldn’t she shake the notion that marrying his father would save her child?

“You might want to marry Ewan Hales,” Gawain said.

“What?” her father said. Her mother glanced up from the afghan she was worrying between her paint-stained fingers. Not that she had touched a paintbrush since she’d arrived.

“He has indicated he is willing,” Gawain said. “He’ll be Fitzwalter someday. It’s an excellent match. Almost as brilliant as Alys’s marriage, and very unexpected for you, Matilda.”

“I don’t understand,” she said.

“Mr. Hales had a chat with Gawain,” Ann said in a slow, patient voice. Normally, her voice was quite musical, but Matilda knew she had another style that she used for talking to the patients she sometimes saw in her role as an Indian healer.

Matilda chuckled. A fallen woman, nearly past her youth, with a two-year-old son, had two eligible suitors? Of course, one was dying and the other had recently been her family’s employee, but still. How droll. She giggled.

Gawain frowned in her direction, then put his hand on their father’s shoulder and bent to speak in the older man’s ear. Matilda wondered what he was saying. An instruction to talk Matilda into one suitor or the other, given the fact that she wasn’t doing anything to run the factories lately? She laughed again.

Her life had fallen apart, despite having worked so hard to rebuild it after Jacob had been weaned. Suddenly, all that effort seemed the silliest of pastimes. Who had she been kidding? Life had been bound to punish her for those sins. Lady Bricker, whose bad advice on how to obtain a proposal from Theodore Bliven, had helped put her on her path in the first place, had lost her first child to a stillbirth and hadn’t conceived again.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.