Wolf Tracker by Maddy Barone

Author:Maddy Barone [Barone, Maddy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2012-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Tami had thought she wouldn’t be pressured by limited choices like Sherry was. And that was true, in a way. But word had gotten around she had refused to marry Dick Dickinson, and the townsmen seemed to think that meant she was open to marrying someone else. She found herself besieged by suitors. The end of November and early December seemed to be prime courting time here. The harvest was in and the weather wasn’t terribly cold yet, so men came from all over to try to win a wife. Tami and some of the other women walked to the library from time to time, escorted by Snake and Stag, but even there men followed them. The men never did anything so bad Tami felt justified in allowing Snake to defend her, so she had to pretend to enjoy talking to the men. Since she hated that, she usually ended up staying home. Trapped in the house and with the colder weather keeping the women at the den away more often now, Tami was going out of her mind with boredom. There was only so much leather available for her to braid into rope. She was used to going places and doing things. She spent a couple hours a day with Dixie and Jodi, and helped in the kitchen and with other chores. Since she had pretty much exhausted the leather supplies, she had begun braiding rugs. Hannah Martin had looked appalled when Tami had told her she wanted to buy fabric to braid rugs with. In this world, new fabric wasn’t used to make rag rugs. Instead Hannah had sold her a bolt of wool with flaws in the weaving and an uneven dye job. But after braiding a few rugs Tami was still bored. When Faron gave her permission to visit Lisa Madison she felt like a kid going on a school field trip. Since when did a grown woman need permission to go somewhere? But this was a different world and she knew what could happen to a woman here. Today’s was one of the rare trips Carla, Marissa, Renee, and Rose all made to town together, and Taye led the sizable escort himself.

Lisa Madison lived about a mile away from the Plane Women’s House, in a smaller house behind the Mayor’s House. That large Victorian mansion was big and ornate enough to merit a title. The smaller house behind it had probably been, back in 1890, the butler and housekeeper’s quarters. There were a few other homes on the block, mostly Victorian mansions a little smaller than the mayor’s house. The block was surrounded by a solid, guarded fence. It must be 2064’s version of a gated community.

Tami smiled at the thought.

The guards at the gate kept them waiting in the road while one went off to get permission for them to enter. A few minutes later, a young blond man came to the gate and ordered the men to unlock it. He allowed the women, Taye and three of his men to come in.

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