Winning the Mail-Order Bride by Lauri Robinson

Author:Lauri Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It might have been the snake bite, or the bitter medicine, causing the odd sensation of being separated from her body. Fiona heard people talking, asking her questions, and she even answered them. It was almost as if she was in some sort of dream. That was what she wanted. To dream. Actually, to sleep. She was so tired. And dizzy. Everything spun, even when she didn’t open her eyes. Spun until she couldn’t tell where things began or ended.

It was nice to no longer be lying on the hard table at the doctor’s office. The mattress beneath her now was soft and so comfortable she didn’t want to move. Her leg hurt and throbbed, but not as strongly as before. Or maybe her sleepiness dulled the pain.

How Brett kept appearing before her, telling her the boys were fine was a great relief. He’d make sure they were taken care of, fed and watched over. For the first time ever, she wasn’t the only one caring about them. Brett was so kind and thoughtful. And handsome. So very handsome.

Maggie was near too. As were other women. Fiona couldn’t remember all their names. Didn’t even try.

When Brett appeared again and told her to go to sleep, she trusted him so much she gave in and, even with the room spinning around her, let the sleepiness overcome her, knowing he would be in her dreams.

He was. The four of them were fishing. He and the boys were laughing. When something attempted to draw her out of a slumber she didn’t want to leave, she tried to ignore it until she realized the laughter wasn’t only in her dream.

She pulled her eyes open and then shut them again when nothing was familiar. Other than the laughing. She pulled her eyes open again and scanned the surroundings more thoroughly.

Nothing was recognizable, other than the gray-and-black plaid shirt hanging on a hook. It was Brett’s. The one he’d worn during their picnic. Examining the room more closely, she questioned why she appeared to be in his bedroom. How? The throbbing in her leg registered then.

The snake bite. Brett had carried her, but it was to the doctor’s house. Josiah had been there. Yelling. Then a wagon, and women. Several women. And Brett telling her to sleep.

The fading sunlight filtering in through the window said it had to be evening. Surely she hadn’t slept the entire day away. Yet she couldn’t remember more than bits and pieces, and pain.

She tried harder, and harder, until the snippets formed a full memory, that of the doctor digging a fang out of her leg and then applying a poultice.

Now fully awake, she pulled aside the blanket. From the knee down, her leg was twice the size it normally was. The poultice was held in place by loose gauze. That was when she noticed the nightgown. Her nightgown. She’d been wearing a dress this morning. Her heart started to race. How? When? Who?

The door opened slightly, and a vaguely familiar face peered around the edge.

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