The Widower's Bride: A Golden Valley Story (The Brides of Birch Creek Book 3) by Laura D. Bastian

Author:Laura D. Bastian [Bastian, Laura D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: second chances, remarriage, marriage of convenience, instant family, western, Mail Order Bride, farming
Publisher: Lange House Press
Published: 2019-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Jed hurt more than he’d ever hurt before and called out for Lizzie time and time again, but she never came. He felt kind hands touching him, but they weren’t hers. Voices spoke, and though he thought they sounded familiar, he couldn’t place them. The sound of crying children pulled him out of the pit of despair he found himself in and when he opened his eyes, sad blue eyes under light curls stared at him.

“Lizzie,” he whispered, his throat too dry and parched to get more than that out. The blonde hair and blue eyes that looked so much like his wife’s came into better focus and he recognized his daughter. “Missy. It’s you.”

“Papa, please don’t die!” Missy clung to him and he reached up to pat her back but found himself almost too weak to manage.

“I’m here, baby girl.” Jed spoke, managing to speak a little.

“Grace!” Missy hollered, surprising Jed. “Papa’s awake. Come quick!”

Movement sounded in the distance and Jed tried to turn his head to look at who was coming. He knew the word, grace. But he was sure there was something more to it. As his eyes focused on the woman entering the room, he finally understood. Grace. His wife. She had cared for him instead of Lizzie.

“He’s awake, Grace. Papa is awake. He said Momma’s name.”

Jed caught the wince of pain in Grace’s eyes, but she reached out and touched his head. “His fever has broken. Let me get a look at his leg.”

The movement of the bed caused him to grunt in pain. “I’m sorry, Jed. I will probably need to change the poultice. I think it’s helped to draw the infection out and keep you from having more damage to your leg.”

“Snake?” Jed asked, trying to piece together what had happened. “Lizzie?” He looked at Grace. “You’re not Lizzie.”

Grace shook her head. “No, sorry. I’m not her. You were bit by a snake. You’ve been sick for two days.”

“Field,” Jed said as he struggled to remember it all. “I didn’t plant it yet.”

“You need to get better first, Jed. The planting can wait. There is still time.”

“No time to wait. Can’t do it alone,” Jed said laying his head back. “Lizzie’s gone.” He still hurt too much to think and with Grace doing something to his leg he couldn’t keep his mind on his work. The pain took all his energy to endure it. When she finally left him alone, Jed felt himself falling back into a fitful rest.

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