Chapter Twenty-five
EJ headed back to the house. She sat at the kitchen table, thinking about Aunt Belle traveling to Europe, her family considering her dead. How sad. If she explained to everyone how she felt about Charlie, most of her family would probably react just as harshly. Would Father? Jeremy seemed to understand, and maybe only younger minds could understand love with less judgment. If I start wearing dresses again, could I be as free with Charlie? Even at the saloon, where no doubt the employees knew, maybe the patrons would react badly, maybe with violence. The irony of men drinking in a whorehouse judging her was not lost on EJ.
Aunt Belle would be gone before long. She deserved a proper Christian burial. There was only one church in town—which denomination? Most any would d
