Sleigh Bells & Mistletoe: A Short Story (The Brides Series 1.5) - Plot & Excerpts
It was like being wrapped up. But not like the warm comfy feeling of a blanket coming around her on a cold night—more the suffocating kind. It wasn’t the walls or the ceiling, not anything like that. She was used to riding the train by now, having followed Daniel Griggs, the “preacher,” around for the past few weeks. The man across from her—her husband—had leaned back in his seat, the brim of his hat pulled down low over his eyes like he was fixing to take a nap. Not looking at her at all, so it wasn’t his gaze she felt on her. It was everyone else’s. All the other passengers in the car were looking right at her. There weren’t that many of them, but what there were, they were all looking at her. She squirmed in all her filth. She’d gone a week or more without bathing, but with good reason. Daniel liked things clean. He liked things clean so much, he barely looked at her if she had a speck of dirt on her or a hair was out of place. She couldn’t be blamed for not wanting him to look at her.
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