Wolf Creek Widow (Wolf Creek, Arkansas Book 4) by Penny Richards

Author:Penny Richards [Richards, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century, American West, Western, Christian, Religious, Faith, Widow, Inspirational, Second Chance, Farm, Native American, Spousal Abuse, Struggle, Isolated, Community, Amends, Husband, Deserves, Protect, Killed, Assistance
ISBN: 9781460388891
Google: c3rCBgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 25074469
Publisher: Love Inspired Historicals
Published: 2015-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Meg watched Ace and Nita pull down the lane with a heavy heart. She would have loved to go to town. Cabin fever had set in with a vengeance a couple of days earlier. Her initial pleasure at his invitation vanished the instant she realized that she’d have to carry on a conversation with him during the whole hour-long drive to Wolf Creek and back. What could she say to him when she’d practically begged him to kiss her and he’d turned her down?

Muttering beneath her breath at her boldness, she wandered around the cabin, wondering what she would do with herself until they returned. Since she’d finished Lucy’s quilt two days earlier, she decided to take Nita’s advice and walk down the road to the curve where the house would first be seen by visitors. She wanted to take a look at the improvements she and Ace had made, back when they were a “good team,” before she’d made a fool of herself.

When she reached the bend in the lane and turned, her mouth fell open in surprise. A couple of weeks of hard work and her little farm looked almost prosperous! The piles of brush and fallen limbs that once littered the grounds had been piled and burned, and the fence rows cleaned of scrub brush and weeds. The fall garden looked green and lush.

The fresh coat of whitewash made the house stand out against the foliage that had begun to change to its fall wardrobe. They’d given the outbuildings a coat of white, too, and Ace had painted the window frames of the house with some green paint Gabe had given him after it had fallen off a wagon and part of it spilled.

With the repaired corral and the chicken wire no longer drooping, the improvements were astonishing. All she needed were a few flowers around the front and maybe some green shutters and it would be perfect!

Meg felt her eyes fill with tears and brushed them away with an irritated swipe. It seemed that ever since seeing the evidence of Ace’s suffering had freed her of the numbness that enveloped her, tears were always close to the surface.

These tears were happy, though. She actually laughed out loud in pleasure. It was no longer just her little house; it was a place she would be proud to call home, one she would not be ashamed to invite her new friends to visit, the place she would bring up her two children and any others she might have.

Would there be others? Oh, she hoped so! In the sleepless hours of the night, she’d realized that despite Elton’s efforts to break her of feelings, there was still much love inside her, but the next time she would have to be very careful about to whom she gave that love. It must be a man who truly loved her back, one she could trust with her heart and her body and her children. Foolishly and too hastily, perhaps, she dared to hope Ace would be that man.

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