For Her Honor_The Gentrys of Paradise by Holly Bush

Author:Holly Bush [Bush, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-08T06:26:55+00:00

Chapter 9

Adam was shocked, and that was an understatement, he thought to himself. He’d known her dreams had something to do with her neatly stacked pages of paper on the end of the secretary desk and even the ones scattered around on the floor. But it hadn’t occurred to him that the young, seemingly broken, and uncomplicated young woman that he married wrote novels. His wife was an author. He felt as if he was ten foot tall! She was his wife! He’d known she was bright with a quick, sharp wit, but there was more to the process, he was certain, than just writing words and making a few jokes among them. She wrote entire novels with beginnings and middles and ends.

He pulled up from the fast pace he’d set York to and settled the horse into a walk as they made their way through some dense trees. The woods were quiet and the path thin, but he was glad Emmaline had shooed him out the door, so she could write back to Mr. Beadle. This part of the Paradise property was always where he’d come when he needed to think and be contemplative, although he hadn’t been here since Josephine had died. Where he’d hidden the Morgans, the full-blooded ones his parents bought to breed, from the Confederates and the Yankees, too, during the War between the States, for months at a time, with just an occasional visit from his father or from Ben, the stable master at the time.

Adam felt certain he’d made the right decision when he’d encouraged Emmaline to attend this school, although admittedly, he’d be anything but comfortable imagining her in a big city, alone. Perhaps he should go with her, rent a house, but then who would manage Paradise? Matthew could of course, but other than foaling they would soon be in the busiest season, when they trained their horses to the bit and bridle and saddle, and sometimes, even a harness. Livie would be able to help if she weren’t expecting, but she was, and he wouldn’t have her do that exhausting work in her condition, and Jim would likely not allow it. He couldn’t leave right now.

He’d nearly stopped Olivia’s plans to live on her own and work in Washington last year, and what a catastrophe that would have been if he had. She would have resented him and maybe never recognized her love for Jim. But it had been difficult to restrain himself as the head of the family. The welfare of the women and children in his sphere was at the forefront of everything that he did and thought and planned. It had always been that way for his father and he’d lectured his sons regularly about their duty to safeguard their women, both from danger and unhappiness. Beauregard Gentry had set out to make sure that his wife was safe and comfortable and that his children were, too, and succeeded spectacularly beyond his rough-and-tumble upbringing.

He would have to

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