Jack went to feed the animals while Celia cleaned up the kitchen. Then they sat together on the porch as the stars began to appear in the inky sky.
“I forgot to tell you how kind your sister was to me when I was in town yesterday,” he said. “It’s as if she’s an entirely different person.”
Celia grinned into the darkness. “I told you she’s much happier now.” Faith had taken her sweet time choosing a letter to answer—to the point where Celia was certain she never would. But then, out of the blue, a man arrived in town—one with whom Faith had apparently been secretly corresponding for a while. And before Celia knew it, her sister was Mrs. Beau Landry.
“She invited us to Sunday dinner.”
“We ought to take her up on it. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be up for that drive to town.” She turned to look at Jack. The details of his face were hazy in the darkness, but it didn’t matter. She had his smile, his eyes, that small scar etched into her memory forever.
He grinned at her then, more content than she’d ever seen him. “I can’t wait to meet our children.”
“Me either.”
“What do you think of Wendursula? Or perhaps Egbertorf for a boy?” His voice was teasing, and Celia shook her head.
“Just you wait. I might agree to Egbertorf instead of John Junior, and then you’ll be disappointed.”
“You wouldn’t do such a thing.” He looked at her with a mock appalled expression.
Celia burst into laughter. And as the stars winked above them and the night cooled, she sighed.
Last year, she never would have guessed at the trials she would go through—and all the joy that had come from them. Here, with Jack at her side and their family just beginning to grow, she was more than content. She was happy.
And excited to see what the future might hold for their little family.
*****
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed Celia and Jack’s story. If you’d like to read more of The Blizzard Brides series, you can find all of the books listed here: http://www.theblizzardbrides.com Linda Applebee and Sheriff Michael Darcy’s story is up next in A Groom for Linda. Trust me when I tell you that you’ll want to find out why Linda spent the night of the blizzard in jail. I’ll also be writing Faith’s story in 2021.
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More Books by Cat Cahill
Books in The Gilbert Girls series
Building Forever
Running From Forever
Wild Forever
Hidden Forever
Forever Christmas
On the Edge of Forever
The Gilbert Girls Book Collection – Books 1-3
Other Sweet Historical Western Romances by Cat
The Proxy Brides Series
A Bride for Isaac
A Bride for Andrew
The Yours Truly: The Lovelorn Series
Confused in Colorado
Dejected in Denver
The Blizzard Brides Series
A Groom for Celia
About the Author, Cat Cahill
A sunset. Snow on the mountains. A roaring river in the spring. A man and a woman who can't fight the love that pulls them together. The danger and uncertainty of life in the Old West. This is what inspires me to write. I hope you find an escape in my books!
I live with my family, two dogs, and a few cats in Kentucky. When I'm not writing, I'm losing myself in a good book, planning my next travel adventure, doing a puzzle, attempting to garden, or wrangling my kids.
