“You Bought the Wrong Bride,” the Cowgirl Said

appeared to be otherwise occupied, and Everett, being a decent sort, wished her well and married a Whitlock cousin’s schoolteacher friend within the year, which everyone agreed suited him better in the end.

But that answer came later. In the meantime, Josie folded her own letter and sat with the not knowing, which was its own kind of work, harder in continue reading …