So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix: 2 (Remixed Classics) by Morrow Bethany C

Author:Morrow, Bethany C. [Morrow, Bethany C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 2021-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

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Jo and Lorie had not gone a day outside each other’s company since the reception. He’d taken to working some portion of the week with Jo, building houses in the village. Whatever his tasks had been before their meeting, they must have fallen to someone else. He didn’t abandon his mother, and when he came to Roanoke he was sometimes later reaching the island than he’d hoped or left sooner than he would’ve liked so that he could be of use to her. Though he lent himself to work on their behalf, he was gracious in refusing things from the colony when they were offered, since rations and clothing were only supplied to those who lived on the freedpeople’s site. Those living at the big house or other confiscated and otherwise unofficially inhabited places had to fend for themselves, and Lorie insisted he was capable of doing so.

“There isn’t any need for that. Why not bring your mother and live here now?” Jo had asked days ago.

“Because I don’t have a mind to,” Lorie’d answered, and Jo had to stop her work so that she didn’t smash her thumb with the mallet.

“She’ll swear she misheard him,” Honor Carter quipped from his seat on the frame above their heads, guffawing so as to get his brother’s attention. Wisdom had taken to self-conscious quiet around Jo since dancing with her sister, and he gave his brother a half smile, but otherwise pretended not to overhear. “I never thought I’d see such a look on your face. You honest-to-God didn’t think he could refuse you, Joanna. I’ll be. Maybe you should have kept to Yann after all.”

“Careful,” Yannick said, making an offending gesture at the young man whose long legs dangled overhead. When it wasn’t enough to quell Honor’s laughter, Yannick lifted his mallet as though reminding the young man that he had one.

“Careful, says the French boy with the broken heart,” Honor shot back, through a laugh. “Don’t feel bad, Yann, until this fellow came along, we thought she despised all men, not just you.”

“You can’t help but disparage the name your mother gave you, Honor,” Jo said, putting a snide emphasis on it. “What an embarrassment it’ll be if my sister is fool enough to love your dog, let alone your kin. I pray God send Joseph Williams back to Roanoke and spare my family the shame. He could lose three limbs and still be more a man than any Carter. Or did you think one dance was all it took to woo a March?”

It hadn’t been what Jo intended to say. She’d meant to defend her friend’s reputation by explaining that Yannick had never wanted more from her than friendship, and that he suffered no broken heart on her account. She’d meant then to ignore Honor Carter completely and finish the conversation he’d interrupted with his dim wit, but there were only so many times she could hear the same ridicule or suffer the same insults just because she was not more like her eldest sister.

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