8
TENNESSEE
“Kane and Ian won me in an auction at a brothel. I was married ten minutes later. To both of them,” Emma said.
“I accidentally entered Robert’s stateroom on the ship from England. We were wed the same day,” Ann added, coming to sit at the large kitchen table with us. She brought a tea pot, and I watched the steam curl from it as we waited for it to steep.
Laurel nodded, patting the tiny back of a baby girl who rested on her shoulder. The four-month-old had been asleep ever since our arrival. “I had a slow courtship. I made it two days in Mason and Brody’s company before we were wed. They didn’t even know my name until just prior to when the vows were said.”
We were seated around Emma’s large kitchen table. When we arrived, the noon meal had ended as well as the cleanup, bu
