Arms of Love
“He felt he owed a good-bye to Dale Ellis. He would miss the man’s friendship, but once he enlisted, they would be at war with each other. It didn’t bear thinking about, so he thanked the traveling tinker for the ride and got off the rattling wagon at the White Swan Inn. Center of Lancaster’s hospitable waysides for travelers, the White Swan had, by rumor, hosted George Washington himself. It seemed perfectly in keeping that Dale would seek rooms in such a place for its ironic humor.
Adam decide...d to enter at the back, unsure exactly where he was going or if he’d be welcome. He saw a clutch of women in the shadows, and a scent of lavender and lemon of an intensity he found uncomfortable wafted toward him. He made to pass them with a quick tip of his hat.
But a bold redhead, her shoulders gleaming white and bare from the half light of the inn’s side window, sidled next to him, blocking his path.
“A fair evening, if you will excuse me,” he said, realizing that he’d got himself tangled in a nest of women of ill repute.MoreLess
Adam decide...d to enter at the back, unsure exactly where he was going or if he’d be welcome. He saw a clutch of women in the shadows, and a scent of lavender and lemon of an intensity he found uncomfortable wafted toward him. He made to pass them with a quick tip of his hat.
But a bold redhead, her shoulders gleaming white and bare from the half light of the inn’s side window, sidled next to him, blocking his path.
“A fair evening, if you will excuse me,” he said, realizing that he’d got himself tangled in a nest of women of ill repute.MoreLess
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