A Bride for Cameron by Barbara Goss

Author:Barbara Goss [Goss, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-16T05:00:00+00:00

Hannah’s ride home was somber. Had she gone about it in the wrong way? Should she have tried to make friends first before asking her to church? Maybe she’d do better tomorrow when she visited Mrs. Wilson.

That evening, after the bedtime rituals had been done, Cameron asked Hannah to walk with him around the grounds. She grabbed a shawl and walked with him along the dark lane toward the road.

“How did your visit with Mrs. Monroe go?” he asked.

Hannah grimaced. “Not well. She threw me out even though I’d brought her cookies.”

“Threw you out? She didn’t lay a hand on you, I hope. I’d sue her for that.”

“No, she just screamed for me to get out.”

Cameron took her hand as they walked, but Hannah wasn’t sure if it was out of sympathy or fondness. “Did you ask her too many question about the murder?” he asked.

“Goodness, no. I hadn’t even started with the questions. I invited her to church, and that’s what set her off.”

He squeezed her hand. “Don’t take it personally. I hear she’s quite an ill-mannered person, and that was one of the nicest things I’d heard about her."

“She certainly was ill-mannered,” Hannah said and they turned to walk back to the house.

"When I had to question her before the trial, she wasn’t rude, but she was not helpful either. She just stuck to her story that her husband had gone to bed with her, and when she was awakened by the sheriff pounding on her door, he was no longer there.”

“The sheriff was just leaving as I arrived. He walked right past me, and she never introduced us. I only knew who he was by his badge.”

“He never introduced himself?”

“No, all I got was a slight tip of his hat, but he did call me Mrs. Hart. How did he know my name?”

Cameron shrugged. “It’s a small town." He lifted her hand to mouth and kissed it. “Shall I call him out for it or sue him?”

Hannah was pleasantly shocked. She smiled, gently reclaimed her hand, and laughed. “Neither, but I hope I’ll have better luck tomorrow with Mrs. Wilson. Have you heard anything about her?”

Cameron leaned against the porch railing. “I met Chloe Wilson on a few occasions and found her to be cooperative while she was still in shock. It was easy to believe her story until she said she had never woken up, had never met Monroe, and had no idea why he was lying dead in her bedroom.”

“You don’t believe her?” Hannah asked.

Cameron shook his head. “I don’t know. I did when I was talking to her, but later, I thought she might just be a good actress or defending her husband. I did, however, believe Wilson when I was with him. My doubts formed when I wasn’t with him. He had such a convincing way of telling his story.”

“How do you mean?”

“When someone is accused of something they didn’t do, their first reaction is anger, and he was angry as a newly-castrated bull.

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