RNWMP: Bride for Jonathan (Mail Order Mounties Book 8) by Amelia C. Adams & Mail Order Mounties

Author:Amelia C. Adams & Mail Order Mounties [Adams, Amelia C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Another Monday rolled around, and time for another trip into Moose Lick. Elaine didn’t need as many supplies this time, so she tucked her few items into the saddlebags and went off to meet with the other brides.

“Did you have a nice visit with the other wives?” Jonathan asked as they rode back home.

“I really did. I’m grateful we traveled out here together—you’re wonderful and I’m so glad we’re married, but there’s something about meeting together with other women that fills a spot in my heart.”

“I think it’s because I don’t giggle as much as your friends,” he said.

She laughed. “I’m absolutely sure that’s it.”

“Or the fact that they give you ridiculously huge presents.”

She reached up and touched the hat she was wearing. Isabelle had been hard at work cleaning out her trunks and getting rid of some of the things she’d brought, knowing she could never fit everything in her tiny cabin, and she’d given Elaine a blue wide-brimmed hat. She’d never had anything so current in fashion. She had no idea where she’d ever wear it. “They say it’s the thought that counts.”

“I think it will look nice with your new blue dress. How’s that coming along?”

“A bit slowly. I wanted to get the curtains and the tablecloth done first.”

They chatted about this and that as they rode. She had to keep biting her tongue—Isabelle had taken home the baby cougar from their get-together, and she wanted to tell Jonathan about it. But it wasn’t her secret to share.

Once back at the cabin, she started some dinner, and he sat down to carve out a new wooden spoon for the kitchen. She’d expressed a desire for one that morning, and she loved how he was making it happen so quickly.

“Do you mind if I ask a question? How did you progress through the academy if you weren’t able to take the examinations?”

“I spoke to the instructors and arranged to take my entrance exams verbally. I scored high enough that they agreed to continue that way through my training. And out here, Dermot helps me with my reports—or Wesley and Preston do, if Dermot can’t for whatever reason.”

She paused for a moment as the implications sank in. “The letter I sent you before I arrived . . . who helped you read that?”

“Wesley. I had a feeling when I received it that Dermot would tease me about it endlessly, so I never let him touch it. Wesley’s a little kinder in that regard.”

Elaine closed her eyes and breathed with relief. If she’d had any idea that Jonathan wouldn’t be the only one reading it, she never would have included that sappy bit about meeting her own Mr. Darcy. Why had she been so foolishly romantic? “And did Wesley tease you?” she asked, trying to sound as though it really didn’t matter to her one way or the other.

“No, not much,” Jonathan replied. Then he turned to her with a grin. “Mr. Darcy?”

“You’re familiar with Jane Austen?”

“My sister talks about those books all the time.

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