Grace (The Marriage Market Book 2) (16 page)
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Authors: Stevie MacFarlane
Euphemia Lane woke slowly, tentatively moving her body to assess the damage as she looked around the room. She was in a huge, four poster bed with white canopy draping. Nestled under a warm quilt she swallowed carefully, her small hands moving to her neck touching the tender area. It was sore and she likely had some bruises. Cautiously she swallowed, wincing slightly; she'd live and she'd had the pleasure of shooting Horace. The discomfort of her bottom was another matter entirely.
Narrowing her eyes, she stared at the man sleeping in the chair beside the bed.
Samuel Jordon had his long legs stretched out and upward, his feet propped on the mattress. A lock of his dark hair curled on his forehead, no doubt plastered there by the heavy rain that had fallen the evening before as he'd carried her into the house and up the stairs. While he'd provided her with one of his shirts for a nightdress and left the room so she could change, he'd returned quickly and refused to budge.
"I'll be perfectly fine on my own," she'd managed to rasp out as he made himself comfortable in the chair.
"Miss Lane, you've been through a trying experience. It's not every day a young woman is nearly strangled to death."
"Mr. Jordon, I'm no longer worried about Horace Remington," she softly and painfully replied. "I've gone and shot him now and if he's not dead I'm sure he'll leave Grace and me alone. If not, I'll shoot him again."
"That's not likely, Miss Lane. You see I've taken the liberty of confiscating your guns. I find hot headed young women and weapons do not mix."
Rolling her eyes, she'd pulled the covers over her and turned away from him. He was much too large to spend the night in a boudoir chair and would most likely seek his own bed as soon as he thought her asleep.
Yet, here he was, snoring softly and keeping her from getting out of bed. Amelia and her new husband were due to arrive this morning and Effie was anxious to inform Grace that her worries concerning Horace were over. Inching toward the foot of the bed she positioned her feet close to his and pushed with all her might.
Instantly his big feet crashed to the floor with a thud causing Sam to bolt forward in surprise. Scooting back to the pillows she looked at him innocently when he wiped the sleep from his eyes and glared at her suspiciously.
"Good, you're awake," she said, hiding her smile.
The End
Hi, I'm Stevie MacFarlane. I live in a small rural community in Upstate NY, and I have been writing off and on for about twenty years in my spare time, although there wasn't much of that with a husband, five children and an assortment of supposedly domesticated pets.
Over the course of my life I have been a waitress, social worker, cook, sewing machine operator and a fine die cutter. I swear I had no idea what I was doing, but apparently the ability to take a wire finer than a strand of hair, sharpen it and feed it through a wire die, was enough for them to keep me on. I also worked for a very short time in a meat packing plant where I got to stand in front of a machine that spit boxes of frozen chicken at me, that was fun!
Then there was the plastic plant I enjoyed for a spell. The heat and smell were bad enough, but the excess hot plastic needed to be pulled off the parts and put into a grinder. I believe they called this byproduct 'spew' or some such thing. I was not quite fast enough to separate the parts and still get the excess into the shredder, (picture Lucy in the chocolate factory) so I just tossed it behind me until they came to break me for lunch. By that time I had a mountain of twisted plastic taller than me! Needless to say, I just turned in my gear and went home.
So I must say that I enjoy what I'm doing now. Of course, being retired gives me more time to let the characters in my head entertain me and hopefully, you as well. I would love hearing from you at [email protected] and thanks for stopping by.
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