Mail Order Bride: Western Romance Novel Read Free: The Heiress and the Indian Scout - Chapter 1 (Part 1)
Chapter 1
Lynn
Spencer loved cooking. There was something very creative about putting together
a group of ingredients and creating a delicious dish out of it… She loved the pleasing
aromas that filled the house…
The
pot bubbled as she added the chicken to the stew.
Her
sister Anne, pregnant with her first baby, breathed in the lovely aroma.
“Your
dish smells so good that it’s made me hungry again,” she said as she looked
over Lynn’s shoulder at the pot on the flame.
Thankfully,
Anne did not suffer from morning sickness but she did feel hungry all the time.
“We’ll
eat in a few minutes. It’s almost lunch time. Lisa Crawford and Isabelle should
be here soon,” said Lynn referring to their neighbors the Hurst cousins who had
also moved West from their Eastern town of Hunston.
A
knock on the door at that very moment announced the arrival of their visitors.
Lynn
went to open the door and Lisa and Isabelle Hurst came in. Like her sister
Anne, Lisa had come West as a mail order bride to marry Tyler Crawford. Isabelle
had followed soon after she had received a letter from Josh with an offer of
work at Wyatt’s Ranch.
Josh
was Tyler’s brother and Lisa was trying to get him hitched together with
Isabelle.
“You’re
just in time,” called Anne as she greeted the visitors.
“Yes,
if you had come a few minutes later, there wouldn’t have been much stew left,”
said Lynn as she winked at her sister. Anne mock punched her sister playfully.
Isabelle
helped Lynn set the table and soon the friends were enjoying a delicious lunch.
Lisa had brought some of her special bread and fried chicken and it was a
lovely meal. Since Will Woodward, Anne’s husband, was away for the day, the
women had the house to themselves.
“A
year ago, I never would have thought that we would all be here together in
Seven Pines now,” said Isabelle. The Spencer sisters had been acquainted with
the sisters Lisa and Lydia Hurst and their cousins Isabelle, Jeanne and Marie
Hurst.
“Indeed,”
said Anne remembering the life that she had left behind in Hunston together
with Lynn. After her father’s death, Anne had volunteered to help Dr. Brown in
his practice.
Born
into a wealthy family, she had soon become engaged to Wayne Burdette, a
reckless spendthrift who had gambled away his family fortune.
She
had broken off the engagement when she had caught him cheating and had found
that he had been after her money. But the disgruntled Wayne had joined hands
with the town’s gossips and made it difficult for her to live there.
She
remembered Molly Bannister and her atrocious stories. But she did not share the
unpleasant memories with her visitors.
“Lynn
and I went to meet Lydia at her agency for Western marriages. We both hoped
that we could marry men in the West and get away from a lot of unpleasantness back
home,” Anne told them. Lisa knew the story but Isabelle did not.
Read Anne and Will's story here.
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