[2016] Her Montana Outlaw by April Jane

Author:April Jane [Jane, April]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Westerns, Romance, Holidays, Western, Short Stories, Inspirational
Amazon: B01M5GFOB5
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2016-06-21T06:00:00+00:00

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The train ride thus far had been exceptionally boring. The city gave out to flat land and did not improve from that point on. Alice’s bonnet was being crushed into a shape that was contrary to natural, but she didn’t have the presence of mind, nor the will to push it off of her head. It shielded her from the rest of her train car and blocked out what little noise a flimsy piece of fabric could manage to do. Overall, it kept people from bothering her, and her from staring at the man who was situated much too close to Alice for her liking; a scant two feet away. Upon finding that one of those dreaded and foreign creatures was riding in her train car—on her side, no less, she had been less than thrilled. When the kind-faced woman sitting across from her if she was alright, she had huffed out an answer that had sounded more like an animalistic sound than an actual word. She hadn’t bothered to correct herself, though, and the woman hadn’t spoken another word to her.

The man was utterly oblivious of her discomfort, not bothering to move himself further away, though she was plastered firmly against the window to the point of pain and flinching every time he moved. She had no doubt that the woman sitting across from her thought that she was some sort of abused child who had run away from home, even though she had a maid who occasionally asked her if she could help her in any way.

Each time, Alice gave Gertrude an eloquent glance that she knew the maid girl could interpret quite perfectly, but never spoke a word. It would have been unbecoming of her to disrespectfully acknowledge even her maid when she was asking her for help, and most of all childish. She wanted to prove to Gertrude—and through the maid, her mother—that she would not take this by pouting and being a sullen child.

She was eighteen years old and very able to take care of herself, after all. She couldn’t have her mother thinking anything else and doing something as embarrassing as coming to the tiny western town she was going to be living in just to check in on her.

“Do you need anything, missus Alice?” Gertrude asked again, though at this point, she doubted if the maid was doing it for Alice’s benefit.

“A glass of water, perhaps,” she said. “Thank you, Gertrude.” She was being quite amiable towards the maid, taking into consideration the fact that it had been Gertrude who had caused this entire mess. If Alice had been able to quietly do away with the evidence of the thirty-eight year old man’s interest in her. Would he have missing teeth? Or perhaps they would be greyed and yellowed by alcohol and tobacco. Either way, all she could envision were the heathens that lived close enough to the city to make their yearly supply runs. They had been dressed in ragged clothes and been covered in all sorts of terrible kinds of dirt and soot.

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