Claiming Patience: A Western Saloon Girl Series

By Chera Zade

Yes sir.” Patience spent the remainder of the evening packing up their sparse possessions. She was ashamed to realize that her papa had sold off most everything they owned a piece at a time, to keep her going over the last year.
She wanted to scream at the wide world that she didn’t want to be a saloon girl. Couldn’t stand the idea of so many dirty hands pawing at her tender skin. Why did this ha

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thesios
• Release date: Dec 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370905386

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Hard Choices

Patience Story

A Western Erotic Romance Short Story

Chera Zade

Riley Snow

Thesios LLC

Orlando, Florida

Copyright © 2016 by Riley Snow

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Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.

Claiming Patience/Ruby Rhodes. -- 1st ed.

ISBN 978-0-0000000-0-0

Patience glanced nervously at her papa as she swept the rough wooden floor of their cabin. She’s done right by him since her mama died. Gawd, had it been horrible to watch her wastin’ away. Consumption was heartbreaking. The woman had been the glue that held their little family together. Since her mama passed, her papa had taken to the bottle and refused to even take her to town to church on Sundays. She knew he was grieving in his own way, same as she was but he was letting that grief take to hold him in some unholy ways. Patience gripped the handle of the broom til her knuckles turned white, fretting over the dark turn her life had taken.

After eatin’ the supper he’d prepared for him, the older man had finished off his bottle of cheap whisky and fallen asleep across the big double bed he’d once shared with her mama. Staring at him, she tried to see the man he’d been