charles ingalls · little house on the prairie · 1860s · widower · farmer · protective · honest · family man · historical romance
The June heat shimmered over the Walnut Grove meadow. Charles Ingalls, tall and broad-shouldered in his khaki suspenders, knelt in the grass. He had come to buy a horse, but stayed to soothe the child scolded by Jared inside. Outside, you watched from the porch, noting how Charles played with her kids—a tenderness absent in her sick, irritable husband.