Saturday Snippet: A Woman Will Nay Be Letting a Man Die in Peace

The following snippet is from 

 Too Old for Christmas 

by Zina Abbott

Too Old in Columbia series

 

Even though he burrowed deep into his blankets inside the steep-sided freight wagon that served as his bedroom, Sean sensed the inside of the barn grow brighter as someone pushed open the door. He threw his arm over his squeezed-tight eyes and groaned as the pounding headache topped by a touch of nausea hit him full force.

          “Mr. Flood. Are you in here?”

          Sean recognized the woman’s voice. It belonged to the aggravating, blue-eyed beauty he had met the day before—the McNair boys’ mother.

          Aye, nothing like meeting a woman when you be at your worst, boyo.

          “I told you he keeps all his things in the wagon and sleeps in there, Ma. We only built a fire inside the cabin out of the wind to fix his supper.”

          So, Jesse, you had to be bringing your ma up to talk to me at the crack of dawn, did you?

          “Mr. Flood, if you’re here, may I please speak with you for a moment? The boys said you wanted to talk to me about chicken soup. They were very insistent I come.”

          “Aye, be with you by the by.”

          Sean stretched and rubbed his fingers through his hair. Next he scratched his beard. Unfortunately, it did nothing to ease his aching head. With his hair sticking up in tufts twisted in every direction, his beard bristling every which way and his rumpled clothes smelling sour with sweat, Sean felt loathe to face his visitors.

          A woman will nay be letting a man die in peace, now will she? ’Tis what you get for having the boys ask their ma to cook for you.

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