Frontier Midwife Amanda by Kate Bridges

Author:Kate Bridges
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989198667
Publisher: Cabin Lake Publishing

“Why won’t you go with him?” asked Grandma.

Amanda pulled her lips together and kept sweeping the inside of the half-built log cabin. Sunshine streamed down on them. Work had come to an upsetting standstill, since Lorne Wilson had arrived. The magistrate would be here in less than a week to decide her fate, and she didn’t wish to think about Chase.

“I’m not going anywhere with him. I’ve got things to do here. The children need me. And who wants to go to a snobby ball where everyone will be comparing the size of their gold rings?”

Grandma swiped the broom from Amanda’s hands. “Me and John can look after the children for one night. And you do want to go the ball, especially with him, and no one will be comparin’ the size of your anything. You’re a midwife who helps lots of women with their problems, but you’re afraid to talk about your own.”

“My problems can’t be solved.”

“Maybe not the way you hope, but Chase is not the same man as William was. He knows your problems, yet still wants to take you to the ball. Maybe you should trust him.”

There was that word again. Trust. “I’m…I’m not ready.”

Grandma sighed. Amanda took her broom back. She didn’t wish to be ungrateful, for she felt blessed with many good things in her life, but at this moment, she wished she weren’t Amanda Ryan. She wished she were anyone else in the whole world except herself. Someone who was capable of having a full relationship with Chase.

The sound of horse’s hooves caused her to glance up the path. Chase came riding in on his mare, his profile chiseled in the morning sunlight, his upper body flexing beneath his brilliant red shirt. The cherry color brought out the dark tone to his skin, and depth to his brows and eyes. Her body came alive.

What now? She leaned her broom against the corner and walked out to greet him. He dismounted. She noticed he was walking steadier and had regained a pound or two. “You look a lot better than the last time I saw you.”

Chase’s eyes swept over her. “And you look just as good.”

Grandma elbowed her in the back. So subtle, her grandma. Amanda bit down on her lip.

“Fine morning, isn’t it, Miss Clementine?” Chase removed his cowboy hat. His black hair glistened with warm tones of brown and rust. It had been almost two weeks since he’d taken ill, and he looked close to full recovery.

“Gettin’ finer by the minute. I’ll go see what the children are up to.” Grandma left.

Why had he come? The Saturday ball was—

“I’m here to see Margaux and Josh. I haven’t seen them since I took ill.”

The tension in Amanda’s stance softened. “They’ve been asking about you every day. Margaux is concerned it was all her fault, with the fishhook.”

“That’s what I suspected.”

Three feet separated them, but it might as well have been an inch. Every movement in her body seemed to respond to his. The

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