Saturday Snippets: She Fought Back a Stab of Jealousy

The following is from my third book, Bargain Bessie, Book 7 in the multi-author series, Sweethearts of Jubilee Springs. It also part of my collection of my first three Sweethearts of Jubilee Springs books, Independence Day 1881 – Zina Abbott’s Sweethearts of Jubilee Springs.

          “That sounds lovely, Bessie.” Emeline’s words came out so softly Bessie barely heard them. She turned to her daughter. When you finish your roll, will you please read Desdemona’s last letter to me again? I’d like to hear once again about Aaron’s new wife.”

          For some reason, Emeline had always called her sister-in-law by her full name, just as she had always requested people address her by her proper name.

          “Certainly, Ma.” Bessie fought back a stab of jealousy. Aaron, her cousin so close to her in age, the one who was always incredibly shy and quiet, especially around most girls, but who had always talked up a storm with her, had married. Twenty-nine years old, same as she was, he had found a young woman through a bridal agency. After knowing her three days, he had married her.

          For some reason, Bessie had felt like both she and Aaron were two peas in a pod.  Any time their parents had visited each other and the two spent time together, they had been inseparable. As she grew older with no prospects of marriage, and had known he had not sought out, let alone found, a lifetime companion, she had somehow drawn the conclusion they both were each destined to go through life alone, he as a bachelor and she as a spinster, neither having family. Only now, Aaron had married and had a house of his own. She supposed the next letter she received—assuming Aaron or his parents still wrote once her mother passed—she would learn Aaron’s new wife was expecting.

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