Wrangling Her Heart (FIRST FAMILIES OF FLAT RIVER #10) by Christine Sterling EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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November 1873
Somewhere in Lincoln County, Nebraska
Matilda Youngerman shifted uncomfortably in her seat and tried to ignore
her brother George as he leaned his head out the window of the coach. With
nothing around for miles on the open prairie, she didn’t know who or what
he was looking for. She clenched her jaw as she followed her brother’s
erratic movements.
He kept glancing over his shoulder, then back out the window,
apprehension clear in the tense set of his shoulders and darting eyes. His
low mutterings about someone following them reached her ears. She rolled
her eyes, her annoyance with him rising. He had been saying the same thing
since they left Texas.
She glanced at the woman sitting across from them in the dimly lit
coach. The woman wore a plain black dress with a threadbare hem and a
worn, but kind expression that didn’t quite reach her dark eyes. Tillie forced
a small grin and looked away. The woman’s smile made Tillie
apprehensive. The woman hadn’t done or said anything. There was just
something Tillie couldn’t put her finger on.
Groaning to herself, she shook her red curls and nudged George with
her elbow. His lunacy was rubbing off on her. Trying to ignore the woman,
Tillie placed a hand on her belly, wondering why George didn’t get them
anything to eat when they disembarked the train in Grand Platte. Her
brother was tight and wouldn’t spend on necessities: food, clothing, rent.
He insisted they share a cold sandwich on the train, balking at the prices for
refreshments at the few stops from Texas to Nebraska.
Honestly, it surprised Tillie he even paid for train tickets for them to
travel north, but George was in a hurry to get out of town. The train was a
luxury that Tillie was grateful for. The thought of walking all that distance
as part of a cattle train held no appeal—especially with all those cowboys.
Tillie gave a shudder.
As Papa would say, “Why borrow trouble?” But Papa wasn’t here, was
he? she thought. As she rubbed her tired and red eyes, the memories came
flooding back. Papa dying, the foreclosure notice nailed to the door, the
auction of their belongings, and finally the fire in the backyard where
everything that was left, including Papa’s favorite armchair, went up in
flames. She had nothing left, and it was George’s fault.
If he hadn’t spent Papa’s savings, Papa wouldn’t have gone into debt
trying to cover George’s schemes. If Papa hadn’t died, they could have kept
ahead of the payments.
If. If. If. She repeated the words in time with the horse’s hooves hitting
the ground.
It was after the auction when George blurted out the words, “We need to
find Sawyer.”
Tillie hadn’t seen Sawyer in ages, but she could still remember her
brother as being kind and compassionate. All the traits George was missing.
Unfortunately, she didn’t know where to even start searching for Sawyer.
The last they had heard, he was foreman on a ranch somewhere on the
western side of the state.
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