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    Loving Pete: Mail Order Bride Series, #3
    Loving Pete: Mail Order Bride Series, #3
    Loving Pete: Mail Order Bride Series, #3
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    Loving Pete: Mail Order Bride Series, #3

    By R L Butler

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    This is a clean Western Historical Mail Order Bride Romance book that does not contain any foul language or sexual situations.

    Threat of war forced Sarah Wilkerson’s father to send her to his sister in El Paso, Texas for safety.  On her journey west, Sarah met a married couple also going to El Paso.

    Pete is wounded by a Comanche arrow, and Sarah cannot help but grow closer to him as she cares for both him and Ellie. But when Pete, who has a high fever with infection, tells her that he’s fallen in love with her, Sarah withdraws from them.

    Guilt for loving her new friend’s husband consumes Sarah, and she suppresses her emotions—until something happens that changes the course of her life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMail Order Bride Press
    Release dateJul 1, 2017
    ISBN9781386524700
    Loving Pete: Mail Order Bride Series, #3

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      Loving Pete - R L Butler

      Chapter 1

      Sarah Wilkerson disembarked in Memphis, Tennessee after being on the train since it left Washington, D.C. Glancing around, she noticed that nearly every passenger from the train had now joined her on the platform. This was as far west as the train went. Unfortunately, there were no more connections. From here on, she would have to take a stagecoach. Oh, how she dreaded that !

      When she had initially received the letter from her Aunt Frances McConnell in El Paso, Texas, Sarah was excited. Fran had written that there were several men in El Paso she thought would be a good match for Sarah. At nineteen, Sarah was not ready to get married, despite what society and Fran seemed to think. In fact, she wasn’t really interested in men for anything other than going to socials. Having an escort was always nice in those cases.

      Picking up her valise that held only a few of her possessions, Sarah proceeded to the nearest hotel to ask for a room. On the way, she stopped by the telegraph office to send her parents a message telling them that she had safely arrived in Memphis. The first hotel she stopped at was full. The clerk at the desk sent her to another hotel that he knew to be a good place for a young woman alone.

      After several days of traveling, she was finally able to relax. Sarah sat down and brushed out her long brown hair with her dark brown eyes looking back at her in the mirror. She suddenly looked older, as though she’d aged during her trip.

      Lying down on the bed, she stared at the ceiling. The circumstances leading her to Memphis had happened so fast. Sarah felt like she had been stuck in a tornado, unable to stop moving. The comfortable life she’d known had changed in three days, putting her in this whirlwind of helplessness.

      When she received the letter from Fran she told her parents she didn’t care if ever she had a spouse. Her always supportive parents had said that was her decision. They did warn her, though, that if she wasn’t married by the time she turned twenty-one, she would have to leave their home in Washington, find a job, and live in a boardinghouse. If she was old enough to be married and didn’t want that, then she needed to learn to take care of herself. That was fine with her, though. She could do a number of different things to earn money.

      Her father came home from work two nights later with a firm contradiction of his previous statement, declaring, You will be going to your aunt’s house, Sadie. I was talking to the men at work today, and they said that a war is definitely brewing. Your safety is much more important to me than your desire not to marry. You will go to your aunt’s, and you will find a husband to care for you.

      Stunned by his change of mind, Sarah just sat there staring at his back as he strode out of her bedroom. How could he do that to her? Why would he do that? Was it the possibility of war?

      She had no doubt that a war would occur, she mused as she lay on the hotel room bed. Fred Wilkerson knew what he was talking about when it came to that kind of thing. He worked for one of the Michigan members to the House of Representatives in the United States Congress. He definitely had information that many others did not have.

      She had also overheard other people talking about a possible war and she’d read about it in the newspapers. Now, the reality of it was more than she cared to consider. All she knew was that the possibility of war had ripped her from her family and her comfortable home. Just that chance had sent her to a place she didn’t know and didn’t really want to know.

      A knock on her door startled her from her thoughts.

      Who is it? she asked before opening the door.

      "Bob from the telegraph office.

      After unlocking her door, she opened the door slightly and peeked into the hallway. There stood the young man she had seen at the telegraph office holding an envelope in his hand.

      Who’s it from? she asked.

      I didn’t look. He slid the envelope through the cracked door. Here you are.

      Thank you, she replied, taking the note from him.

      Sarah closed the door and locked it again. Her parents had given her a stern warning about trusting any man while she was traveling on her own. Bob could not have been more than sixteen, but he was still capable of taking advantage of a woman. In this case, at least while she was living in a hotel room, she would take her parents’ advice.

      Moving the wooden chair from the small desk in the room to the window, Sarah sat down and opened the telegram. It was from her father thanking her for letting them know that she had arrived safely and reminding her to telegraph her aunt to let her know when she would

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