A Settler's Wife's Dreams (Erotic Romance, Romantic Erotica, Erotic Historical Romance) by Ashley Olsen Page A
Authors: Ashley Olsen
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long. The more she tried the more her eyes burned until finally she let herself weep into his arms. She could feel him gently caressing her as she started to calm down, her hysterical sobs slowly shrinking into sharp intakes of breath.
Chapter 5
The next day Lisa intentionally didn't go down to breakfast until after she knew Ted had left the shop to run some errands. She had slept in her own room that night and spent most of it thinking about what she wanted to do with her future. More than anything she wanted to be able to live a life she was proud of and she wasn't going to be able to do that here.
She didn't know where she would go to, though, if she could. Ted would most likely give her some money to leave town if she needed it, which she did. Lisa could always go back east and explain to her family the tragedy that had befallen her. Or she could go out west and see if she knew anyone out there. She knew that she had a few family members out there, but she didn't know if they would be able to help her get on her feet or not. She wondered if she told Ted that she planned on leaving if he would change his plans so that he could leave with her.
Ted was a decent man, and Lisa realized that, but he was putting his business before everything else right now. Sure, he had a good thing going, but was it really that great of a thing considering how small the town they lived in was? She could cross the width of the town in no time at all. Sure, the town was growing, but it was still a very small town with very few options. She wondered if he realized this, or if he really wanted to settle in for the long haul. When alive, Frank used to talk about men who opened up shops in small cities hoping they would boom and make them rich. Often times such people spent their whole lives toiling under the assumption that they would someday be rewarded for all of their hard work. However the truth was that they weren't always rewarded, and Lisa knew it. She wondered if Ted knew that though. Many small business owners couldn't accept the fact that even though they worked very hard the return on their labor would be minimal at best.
Would Ted be willing to trade what he considered a huge amount of labor for minimal return for a life with her? Lisa knew that it was a question that she needed to figure out the answer to and very quickly. She already felt like she'd wasted more than enough time sitting around this town. There was more to life than being in a small town and gossiping about your neighbors.
Suddenly the homestead life that she had consider quaint before seemed like something she would give anything for. The homestead had been burned to the ground, she reminded herself. But had it? She had asked Ted to have it burned but that didn't mean that he’d done it. First of all he was extremely busy most of the time. Second of all there were times that Ted would agree with her and change his mind later. Maybe he’s said yes and then thought better of it.
Technically the homestead had her name on it now that Frank was gone so if it was still standing she could go out there and live as long as she wanted to. If she did, she'd give up on the plowing and the sowing though. She'd just live off the land. The bank couldn't take the land deed form her until she was very delinquent on the payments, and there might even be a way for her to convince the banks to let the entire payment slide considering she had never bugged them about the life insurance policy on her husband. Not that the policy would have yielded much money, it was just one of those things that would look very sordid on their part. It would look bad for them to deny a widow her husband’s life policy and then expect her to keep up the payments on the property her husband had been farming.
Lisa didn't want to farm because it took so much time compared to a very small outcome of gain. She had once tried to tell Frank this but he'd grown angry at her, telling her
Chapter 5
The next day Lisa intentionally didn't go down to breakfast until after she knew Ted had left the shop to run some errands. She had slept in her own room that night and spent most of it thinking about what she wanted to do with her future. More than anything she wanted to be able to live a life she was proud of and she wasn't going to be able to do that here.
She didn't know where she would go to, though, if she could. Ted would most likely give her some money to leave town if she needed it, which she did. Lisa could always go back east and explain to her family the tragedy that had befallen her. Or she could go out west and see if she knew anyone out there. She knew that she had a few family members out there, but she didn't know if they would be able to help her get on her feet or not. She wondered if she told Ted that she planned on leaving if he would change his plans so that he could leave with her.
Ted was a decent man, and Lisa realized that, but he was putting his business before everything else right now. Sure, he had a good thing going, but was it really that great of a thing considering how small the town they lived in was? She could cross the width of the town in no time at all. Sure, the town was growing, but it was still a very small town with very few options. She wondered if he realized this, or if he really wanted to settle in for the long haul. When alive, Frank used to talk about men who opened up shops in small cities hoping they would boom and make them rich. Often times such people spent their whole lives toiling under the assumption that they would someday be rewarded for all of their hard work. However the truth was that they weren't always rewarded, and Lisa knew it. She wondered if Ted knew that though. Many small business owners couldn't accept the fact that even though they worked very hard the return on their labor would be minimal at best.
Would Ted be willing to trade what he considered a huge amount of labor for minimal return for a life with her? Lisa knew that it was a question that she needed to figure out the answer to and very quickly. She already felt like she'd wasted more than enough time sitting around this town. There was more to life than being in a small town and gossiping about your neighbors.
Suddenly the homestead life that she had consider quaint before seemed like something she would give anything for. The homestead had been burned to the ground, she reminded herself. But had it? She had asked Ted to have it burned but that didn't mean that he’d done it. First of all he was extremely busy most of the time. Second of all there were times that Ted would agree with her and change his mind later. Maybe he’s said yes and then thought better of it.
Technically the homestead had her name on it now that Frank was gone so if it was still standing she could go out there and live as long as she wanted to. If she did, she'd give up on the plowing and the sowing though. She'd just live off the land. The bank couldn't take the land deed form her until she was very delinquent on the payments, and there might even be a way for her to convince the banks to let the entire payment slide considering she had never bugged them about the life insurance policy on her husband. Not that the policy would have yielded much money, it was just one of those things that would look very sordid on their part. It would look bad for them to deny a widow her husband’s life policy and then expect her to keep up the payments on the property her husband had been farming.
Lisa didn't want to farm because it took so much time compared to a very small outcome of gain. She had once tried to tell Frank this but he'd grown angry at her, telling her
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