Bran (Prairie Grooms, Book Six) by Morgan Kit

Author:Morgan, Kit
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Angel Creek Press
Published: 2014-10-27T23:00:00+00:00

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What luck! Spilled tea! Apple couldn't have planned it any better and wished she'd thought of it! But the important thing was that now she was alone with Eloise and could speak with her about her dilemma. “Is the Sayer curse true?” she blurted as she went behind a wooden screen to change her dress.

“What?” Eloise croaked. “Apple, why are you asking me this?”

“Because I have to know!” she said from the other side of the screen. She quickly peeked around it. “Is it true, did you think it affected you and Seth?”

Eloise blanched. “Who told you that?”

“I think it was Cousin Imogene, or maybe Constance, but I did hear it.” She popped back behind the screen and continued to change her clothes.

Eloise sat on the bed and stared at the floor. “It's true that I believed in it and thought it had followed us here from England, but now I know better.”

Apple came out from behind the screen wearing Eloise’s simple brown calico. “What do you mean, you know better?”

“There was nothing here to keep me from marrying Seth except, well, me,” she explained.

“You? You mean the curse, right?”

“I guess I’m not explaining this very well. Let me start again. At first I thought it was the curse that kept me wondering if marrying Seth was the right thing to do, even though I was his mail-order bride. But then I realized I had made him out to be something that he wasn't, and I wanted him to be something else, do you understand?”

“Not really,” Apple said, her tone flat. “Is the curse real or not?”

Eloise let out a heavy sigh. “No, Apple, I don't believe it's real.”

“You… you don’t?” Apple asked, truly shocked. “Then what happened to all those men back in England?”

“I don't know, except that someone didn't want them inheriting the Stantham estate. It's the only logical explanation.”

“But who would do such a thing?”

“Some cousin or other I suppose. Thackary Holmes is the only one that comes to mind. I heard Colin and Harrison talking about him one night when I was still living out at the Triple C. What they said made sense. After all, he did travel all the way out here with Cousin Anthony’s solicitor to see if Duncan or his brothers were alive and able to inherit. If they weren’t, then Thackary would. Everything points to him.”

“Yes,” Apple said as she looked to the floor. “I've heard the stories.” Her head snapped up. “But what about the curse?”

Eloise stood up from the bed, and put her hands on Apple shoulders. “There is no curse. The only thing that would keep you from marrying anyone is yourself. You have a handsome man downstairs waiting to have tea with you, and I think you should drop this silly curse business and pay attention to him.”

“There’s no curse?” Apple asked again, her voice trailing off.

Eloise put an arm around her. “No, silly. But I admit, I thought there was just like you do. That's it, isn't it? You're afraid you can't let Mr.

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