Miranda: Prisoners of Love, #4 by Callie Hutton

Author:Callie Hutton [Hutton, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Callie Hutton

Miranda wandered the little house Preston had bought for them. It was far enough outside of town to be in a quiet friendly neighborhood with other business owners and their families. A snug little house, it was painted white with blue clapboard shutters. A small porch ran across the front of the house and would be the perfect place for several plants and a couple of rocking chairs.

There was a kitchen, parlor, small library—or office, and a dining room on the first floor. Hardwood floors gleamed with polish throughout the house. The second floor had two bedrooms and a bathing room with running water and a newfangled toilet with a water box above it and a chain to release the water. She could not have asked for a nicer place.

He had dropped her off earlier in the morning to await the arrival of the furniture from his rooms at the Silver Palace which was being loaded onto a wagon and driven over to the house.

They’d been married a week, and she had started her job. He brought the books to her the day after their wedding, but he was so insistent that she have nothing to do with the saloon that he rented her a room right next to Miss Nellie in Miss Priscilla’s boardinghouse, even though he couldn’t visit her there since no men were allowed.

He even paid for Miss Nellie’s room so she could “watch over” her since he would only see her at dinner when he arrived to take her to Chez Café for their meal each night. Her heart had warmed at his protectiveness. It was too bad she had to flee as soon as she saved enough money. But she soothed her conscience with the fact that she had been the reason he’d received permission from the town to build his restaurant and hotel.

The Palace’s books were a complete mess, and it had taken hours to unscramble what he’d done, but despite that, the business was doing very well. With his lack of math ability, he’d been very lucky not to have been cheated.

Since she’d been working for a week, she was hoping Preston would give her a pay envelope today so she could start putting money back for her escape. The more time that passed since she’d left Dodge City, the more she worried about Woody returning from his latest run of stagecoach robberies and coming after her. She knew the marshal would never tell him where she’d gone, but there were a lot of people in Dodge City who knew about the female prisoners who had been shipped to Santa Fe.

She hurried to the front door at the sound of a vehicle approaching. A large wagon driven by Preston came to a rolling stop in front of the house. It was loaded with so much furniture she was afraid their little house wouldn’t hold it all. She walked down the pathway to the wagon just as Preston jumped from the seat.

“Did you have

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