Wild Western Women Boxed Set by Kirsten Osbourne & Callie Hutton & Caroline Clemmons & Sylvia McDaniel & Merry Farmer

Author:Kirsten Osbourne & Callie Hutton & Caroline Clemmons & Sylvia McDaniel & Merry Farmer [Osbourne, Kirsten]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Victorian, Western
ISBN: 9780990635963
Google: e5PYBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00O35YY0U
Publisher: Virtual Bookseller
Published: 2014-11-01T23:43:09.025000+00:00

Chapter Nine

Mark rushed through the empty church and out into the cold December evening without a coat. Night may have been falling over Montana, but a dawn of promise was on the horizon. Sadie McGee must still be nearby. She and Angus lived in town, after all. Plenty of folks were still out and about, running last-minute errands or on their way home for supper. He dodged through them, gathering strange looks from his parishioners as he searched for Sadie.

“Where’s the fire, Reverend?” Mr. Upshaw asked when Mark nearly bowled him over.

“Did Sadie McGee come this way?” he asked instead of answering.

“She’s right over there.” Mr. Upshaw pointed toward the juncture of Silver Avenue and Main Street. “Everything all right?”

Sadie and Angus were crossing the street several yards away. Relief rippled through Mark.

“It will be,” he said and shot off at a run.

“Sadie!” he called as Sadie and Angus stepped up onto the row of covered porches along Main Street.

Sadie turned to squint at him in the growing dark. Her eyebrows flew up when she recognized him. “Reverend, whatever are you doing running around without a coat?”

Mark skidded to a stop in front of the porch. “Amelia Quinlan is in labor. She’s at my house,” he said through great, gulping breaths.

“Land sakes,” Sadie cursed. “I knew that girl didn’t look right when she came to the church. Well hurry up. What are we waiting for?” She stepped off the porch and began to march back to the church. “Angus, run home and fetch my things and bring them to the church.”

“Yes, ma’am,” Angus said.

“Could you send someone out to the Quinlan ranch to fetch Eric while you’re at it?” Mark added.

“Will do, Reverend.”

Angus headed off on his errands as Mark rushed with Sadie back to the church. A few heads turned as they hurried past people on their way home, but Mark was beyond caring what his parishioners thought of him. As he and Sadie dashed into the quiet, empty church, he could feel the warmth of a whole new life just waiting to be born, a life that had been a long time coming. It went far, far beyond Amelia and Eric’s baby.

He and Sadie charged through the door to his apartment and into a panicked scene.

“You’re… you’re going to be all right,” Eve was saying.

She sat, stiff as a board, on the couch beside Amelia. Her eyes were wide and she’d lost all color from her face. Amelia was in dire straits—her face red with effort and sweat making her hair and bodice damp. Eve held her hand, looking as though she might pass out.

“Don’t you worry, Amelia, Sadie’s here,” Sadie said.

Eve let out a breathy cry of relief and leapt up and away from the couch. She launched herself into Mark’s arms and hid her face against his shoulder. Sadie took her place beside Amelia.

“Mrs. McGee,” Amelia panted, laughing with relief and panic. “Thank God.”

“Don’t you worry, sweetheart,” Sadie went on, all bedside manner. “Let’s see what we’ve got here.

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