Once Upon a Mail Order Bride: Mail Order Brides: Book One by Hannah West Read Free Book Online Page B

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    Carrow hummed and she stirred the pot and thought about what she was gonna do about Clayton. She was seduce him and then make him understand why she did what she did, and then tell him what he would get in return every night for the rest of his life! But even at the moment he probably didn’t even know she was gone.
    Voices sounded from outside and the front door open and shut as whoever it was said goodbye to the other. Shrugging and thinking it was just her sister coming back she went back to stirring.
    Sudden a strong pair of arms wrapped around her and lips crushed hers in a passionate kiss.
    Shocked to her core Carrow started to struggle and the man held her tight and laughed against her ear.
    “You aren’t trying to get away are you?” a deep voice whispered in her ear.
    “Let me go!” Carrow shouted and tried to break free.
    The front door slammed and Emmy walked into the kitchen. What she saw turned her face bright red and she came forward, fist raised and plowed it into the nose of the man holding Carrow.
    He fell to the floor and Carrow turned to see Emmy’s husband holding a bleeding nose looking up at the two of us with wide eyes. Carrow smiled a little as he looked back and forth between her and his wife.
    “Have a care with what you say next,” Emmy warned him.
    He blinked.
    “What were you doing to my sister, Mister?”
    “I thought she was you,” he said dumbly.
    “Oh, you are such a man, Eric! Thought she was me? I don’t even own a dress like her!” Emmy threw him a glare.
    He nodded slowly and got to his feet. “I’m sorry, Em. I didn’t know she would be here, we’ve been out looking for her all day!” He turned a frown to Carrow. “Just what are you doing here?”
    “I bought her here because her husband is a brute and a-and a …ass!” Emmy blazed.
    Chuckling Eric pulled Emmy into a tight hug. Kissing the top of her head he said, “So I heard. Clayton’s been looking for you all day Carrow. You two need to sit down and have a heart to heart chat.”
    Carrow fidgeted. “We are. Tomorrow. When I want to go back. I just need, you know, some space.”
    Eric gave her serious look. “ He’s worried sick, you better head home. I’ll take you back.”
    “No,” Carrow blurted out, then winced. “I haven’t forgiven him just yet. He kicked me out of his bed you know, and his room.”
    Eric frowned, but Emmy went to stand by her sister, taking her hand. “I send she could stay the night. It’s only one night and it won’t hurt anything.”
    Eric stared at them long and hard, but finally sighed with a look of defeat. “Fine, but I am going to tell him where she is.”
    He put his hat back on. “I’ll be back for supper in a short while. Keep it warm.”
    When he was gone Carrow looked to her sister a grinned. “I see why you like your husband. Good kisser.”
    Emmy slapped her on the arm. “That’s not funny!”
    “Maybe not to you. But thank you, I’m just not quite ready to see him , I think.
     
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    Twenty minutes later the door came crashing in as an angry blonde Clayton stormed into Emmy’s and Eric’s house. Upon spotting her on the settee next to Emmy he pulled Carrow up and to her feet dragging her to the door.
    Not knowing him for being mean, Carrow panic and tried to slip free.
    “Let me go! Hurt hurting my wrist,” Carrow snapped.
    Eric came running in the door. “Clayton, Stop this! Let the girl go.”
    “Stay out it,” he snarled at the other man, then turned flinty eyes to Carrow. “I’ve been worried sick about you all day and this is where you have been?” His voice rising.
    Yanking her arm from his hand Carrow shouted back, “What I do is none of your business! Or where I go. The moment you kicked me from your bed I think that allows me my freedom from a pig like you!”
    “Woman, you are crazy!” Clayton shouted back. “You left me!”
    “You kicked me out! What was I supposed to do, beg at your feet for more