to becoming only a help. Between them, something unexpected was born.
Not easy love.
True love.
But peace lasts little when it is built on the humiliation of others.
A month later, Clara found in the barn a wrinkled note that someone had gotten into the tools. He immediately recognized the lyrics of his brother Thomas.
“I told you he wouldn’t dare to get married. I lost fifty, but I can still get them back.”
The paper burned his fingers.
That night, he confronted Elijah with the note in his hand. He read it and closed his eyes with molt rage.
“Did you know?” Clara asked.
He was slow to respond.
I heard after the wedding. Your brother came drunk to the ranch and mocked. He said he staked with some men in the village that I wouldn’t be able to take a woman home.
Clara felt the shame and