The stage rolled to a stop. Finally, she’d be free of this detestable man. Abby didn’t think she could bear his company for another minute and never knew how she managed these last eight hours. Not that he’d spoken; not that she had, either. Still it was uncomfortable to be sure to sit next to a man and feel the animosity they both knew. Abby was happy to be done with it. After being helped from the coach, she asked for her mother’s boarding house. “Excuse me, sir. Could you point out Miss Lilly Willingham’s boarding house?” “Miss Lilly’s place is down the road a bit. Last house on the left.” Abby with her one bag in hand, hesitated for a moment, before moving off toward her mother’s home. Even as she did, she listened as the aggravating beast inquired as to his brother and the coming nuptials. Exactly who was his brother marrying? It was with a gleam of satisfaction in her eyes that she laughed and watched him follow her over the uneven sidewalk to the last house on the left.
