Dancing In Red (a Wear Black Novella) - Plot & Excerpts
You’d have thought she was carrying a fresh case of the Irish flu the way respectable housewives turned Nellie away when she asked for work. Eventually, after weeks of searching, she found work as a temporary barmaid, taking the place of the owner’s daughter, who was recovering from having given birth. They would only give Nellie a bed in the stables, but it was warm and comfortable enough, though it smelled terrible. At night, she rubbed her stomach and wondered if the child inside would be a boy or a girl. She had felt the first flutterings of the baby a week before and the sensations had grown to be a daily occurrence since, until today. She worked for the babe, she ate for the babe. Right now, everything she did was for the babe. “You are so silent, wee one,” she whispered. “Sleeping, are you? Shall I sing you a lullaby?” She crooned quietly to the babe inside her, shifting on the straw to find a comfortable place to sleep. Her back had been hurting all day, the pain increasing by the hour.
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