Second Chances

By: Cindy K. Green | Other books by Cindy K. Green
Categories: Mainstream Romance, Historical, Short Stories, Western/Cowboys
Word Count: 5,250
Heat Level: SWEET
Published By: Pelican Book Group

 

Ellie Westin has waited two years for cowhand Joe Cameron to make her his wife. When he returns from the latest cattle drive, he finds her engaged to another man and about ready to join a wagon train to the Nevada silver mines…unless God gives him a second chance to right his wrongs and ask her the question she’s been waiting so long to hear.







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Second Chances
Second Chances

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Excerpt

Wyoming Territory, 1878

Ellie Westin wrung her fingers as the trail hands straggled back into White Bluff that dusty September afternoon. Any minute Joe would be among them. Her heart rate sped upward before she could stop it. Then her face warmed into what must be a blush of anticipation. She had to stop doing such things and gain control of herself.

Blowing out a quick breath, she dabbed her moist brow and sauntered back into the boarding house. She couldn’t care less if Joe Cameron returned home or not. He’d had his chance, and she was through with him. God had plans for her life, and she hoped they didn’t include living at Miss Rosa’s as a maid, cook and washer-woman until she dropped dead of old age. She wanted more than just cleaning up after the dudes and cowpokes who visited as they passed through to bigger and better places. She dreamed of being a wife and a mamma.

She’d given Joe two years of her life to work up the courage to ask her to marry him, and he never had. He never even hinted at it. Well, maybe he just wasn’t the marrying kind. That was Miss Rosa’s guess anyway. And maybe she was right. It didn’t take most folks long to make up their minds and get hitched out here. There wasn’t time for such nonsense as courting.