Renegade Cowboy
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A woman from the slums seeks a way out of that life and answers a mail order bride ad from a cowboy in Colorado, and little did the cowboy know what he was getting in the feisty, independent, caring, and loving woman who arrived on the train.
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Renegade Cowboy - Doreen Milstead
Renegade Cowboy
By
Doreen Milstead
Copyright 2016 Susan Hart
Synopsis: A woman from the slums seeks a way out of that life and answers a mail order bride ad from a cowboy in Colorado, and little did the cowboy know what he was getting in the feisty, independent, caring, and loving woman who arrived on the train.
Merrideth Cole, or Merri to her friends, watched with heavy weariness as her mother was covered with a sheet. While the doctor stood over her shaking his head sadly, rushing sound filled her ears and she felt a dizzying numbness settle in her arms and legs. The noises of the priest praying over what was once the only family she had ever known, melted into a chorus of nonsense that became drowned out by the sound of silence: a rushing and gaping nothing in her ears. She could only hear the cacophony of the one thought echoing as it bounced of the walls of her brain.
It’s finally over.
Mom’s pain. My family. The life I have known ‘til now. It’s all over.
Merri’s mother, Joy, used to be happy and vibrant and full of laughter. Merri’s father died while she was very young and she didn’t remember him, but she knew her mother. Joy’s health began fading years six years ago but hadn’t been bedridden until about two years months ago. They both mended, embroidered, and hand stitched things for a small fee. It was just enough to keep food on the table, mostly, and something Joy could do while resting in bed. Then Joy became even more ill.
Merri nursed her mother month after month while sickness ate away at her. Merri would sew extra hours while she tended her mother’s sick bed to be able to afford medicine and, most of the time, a little food. The Joy that was in the bed today was a dried husk of what she once was. Tears spilled over onto her cheeks and she let them fall. She would not be wracked the sobs, Merri had spent enough evenings sobbing her heart out praying for help anywhere, only to have her pleas fall on deaf ears. She was feeling all cried out, but she would still mourn the loss of what little of her mother was left to cling to towards the end.
A small whiff of dust puffed out as she plopped heavily on the floor, legs too numb to hold her weight. She spent so much of her time and focus these last few months nursing her mother Merri all of the sudden felt adrift and lost. She had no anchor, nothing to keep her from simply floating away. She was driftwood on the water with no direction or destination.
Her eyes darted from one person to another in the room and everyone was a stranger. Strangers would always surround her; her whole family was gone. Merri was truly alone now. She heaved a ragged gasp against her emotion-clogged throat. She couldn’t stop to think about the far future, she just had to get through the funeral.
The next few days were a haze of visitors and plans. The neighbors, thankfully, brought her food enough for a large family, much less just her. Some of the food would be easy to store or travel with so Merri tried to conserve those ‘til she had a better plan. Her appetite hadn’t yet returned either, but she ate something occasionally, just to keep her body functioning. Besides, food was a precious commodity that should be used to it’s potential, not hoarded to waste.
She hated being hungry, that sick