A Bluebonnet Misfit Christmas: Sweet Historical Christian Western Romance (Mail Order Brides of Misfit Ranch Bluebonnet, Texas Book 2) by Carroll Patricia PacJac

Author:Carroll, Patricia PacJac [Carroll, Patricia PacJac]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: PacJac Publishing
Published: 2015-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

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Amelia glanced out the store window. Justin was walking down the street with Spencer. Her heart melted just watching him. Why her parents were being so stubborn was beyond her. She loved them dearly, but she loved Justin more and in the way that a woman loves a man.

She was no longer a little girl.

“Amelia, what are you looking at?” Mother eyed her suspiciously.

“I was watching the man I love walk down the street.” There, she’d spoken it just to upset her mother.

Red colored her mother’s cheeks while hurt creased her eyes.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t want to hurt you, but I love Justin. Why can’t you see that?”

Putting a hanky to her eyes, her mother shook her head and ran for the backroom.

Feeling as if she’d knifed her best friend, Amelia followed her, reeling in her own sadness at hurting her mother.

“Amelia, I don’t want you talking to your mother like that anymore.”

Startled, she realized Father had seen and heard the entire exchange. She started to ask him, but the hardness in his eyes told her not to try. He always took up for her mother. “Yes, sir.”

“I can trust you to stay away from Justin, can’t I?”

“Yes, sir. But I love him, Father. Someday, you and Mother are going to have to come to grips with the truth. I am going to marry Justin Wellesley.”

“That might be, but if you want our blessing, you better not have your heart set on Justin. You’re young. Give yourself time to grow up and maybe you’ll find another young man that steals your heart. Maybe the new attorney in town.” He cleared his throat. “Even Yancy. I hear Reed is working with him.”

“Yancy is wilder than a tornado. I can’t believe you and Mother would even suggest him. He spent more time in the saloons than working. Reed might be able to straighten him out, but he is not a man I can love.”

Her father’s face turned red, and she recognized that the conversation had better end.

“I won’t run off and elope with Justin if that is what you are worried about, but I can no longer promise to stop seeing him. I would be dishonest with myself as well as with you. I love you and Mother with all my heart, but I love Justin, too. Don’t make me choose.” Amelia, startled by her courage, kept her head up and matched his stare.

He gave her a grim smile. “You are my daughter. Your mother and I love you, perhaps too much. Give us some time to pray and get used to the idea. And promise me you’ll pray and visit with Pastor Jim.”

She nodded. Her tears were too close to falling and making a mess of her courage. “I promise. Perhaps I’ll go to the church and see the pastor now. I feel I need a break from the store and Mother needs one from me.”

“I think that would be a good idea. I’ll take care of your mother. You take care of your heart and soul.

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