Wolver's Gold (The Wolvers Book 5) by Jacqueline Rhoades

Author:Jacqueline Rhoades [Rhoades, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jacqueline Rhoades
Published: 2014-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

According to Eustace and Bertie, there would be more than the women of the book club going over the moon. Word had spread and the little schoolhouse would be overflowing with wolver women willing to take a chance on changing their lives. For modesty’s sake, they agreed to meet there to strip down to their cotton undergarments before the moon rose. Even some of the older women said they would come and trot around the schoolyard, if only for an hour, in memory of their younger days.

Gold Gulch was closed to tourists only four days a year, so the day of the Hunter’s Moon was like any other, but with the excitement of the coming run, time flew by. There was a lightness among the women, as if a heavy burden had been lifted, and the customer’s noticed. Eustace was full of news.

“Got a crowd down to the Emporium. Those two sisters are picking up their skirts over the tops of their shoes, dancing and singing Sweet Betsy From Pike, enjoying it, too, by the looks of it. Achilles Marbank ain’t likin’ it much, though,” the omega cackled. “The crowd’s blocking the window. It’s tough not being able to stand all google eyed and droolin’, watchin’ that pretty girl at the counter.”

“Cassie and Achilles?” Rachel asked without even realizing she’d used first names. “Cassie told me she’d decided not to mate.”

“That don’t keep a man from dreamin’. Know what he’s doing instead? Hammering out a rose, petal by petal, at the forge.” Eustace shook his head. “Hurt me like the dickens when they gave him my livery, not because he got it, mind. It was the way they done it, turning him against me. I’d been asking to bring him in as partner for a long time. The man knows his way around a forge. I only used it to fit horseshoes and make a repair here and there. That Achilles is an artist.”

“Quit your yammering and wash up. Last couple of days you been doing twice the talking and half the work,” Bertie grumbled. “Those dishes need to be set out for Tea and the napkins need folding. We got a lot of work to do around here if we expect to close on time and since I expect your attentions will be elsewhere, you can do your part now. By the time you’re done, the pot pies will be, too. You can take one down to Maudie. No sense in her worrying about supper, too. She’s got enough on her plate atwixt her fines and you watchin’ those cubs while she runs. What you and those cubs’ll get up to while she’s gone is enough to make her hair curl.”

“Crotchety old hen,” Eustace muttered. “Don’t know how poor Victor puts up with you.”

“Cubs?”

Since her revelation of the washerwoman’s circumstances, Bertie had been more open about and more generous with the food she sent from Rachel’s kitchen and accounted for the slight rise in food costs, but Rachel couldn’t find it in her heart to tell the cook to stop.

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