A Family for Christmas by Kate Welsh

Author:Kate Welsh [Kate Welsh]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781459257900
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury

Of course, that look was nothing to his expression later in the afternoon when Daniel started explaining to Pastor Dillon that Trent slept in the carriage house because Aunt Maggie got on Uncle Trent’s nerves. Maggie was only too glad to leave Trent to do his explaining alone once again.

She knew she shouldn’t revel in his discomfort, and should probably be just as embarrassed as he was to have the intimate details of their lives revealed to her pastor. But she wasn’t. Not just because she had already discussed her marriage in detail with Jim Dillon, but because there were no intimate details. None whatsoever. And that was no one’s fault but Trent’s. She had every confidence that her pastor and friend would instinctively know that.

Since that Sunday afternoon three weeks earlier when Trent had kissed her with such passion then later held her when she’d cried, he’d been standoffish and distant. It hurt, because during those few shining moments he’d made her believe that he still cared.

Then he’d withdrawn into a familiar pattern. He was unreachable beneath a shell of activity and overwork. He was “keeping too busy to think.” It was so typical that it would have been funny had it not been so sad. It was classic Trent Osborne, with a new wrinkle. Maggie didn’t think she was being paranoid in believing that he actually fled every time they wound up alone together.

She understood that she’d hurt him in the past. She understood that he was afraid to be hurt again. But what she didn’t understand was how she was supposed to convince him that she’d never hurt him like that again if he wouldn’t even spend five minutes alone in the same room with her.

Each night Maggie emerged from Grace’s room, hoping to find him waiting for her somewhere in the house. He was never there. It wasn’t as if he was necessary to her survival. She was getting along all right and adjusting to her new life, because she had the comfort of her faith. But she still needed Trent’s love. She needed to share her thoughts with him. She needed him to hold her when she was worried or sad. She needed the joy and excitement of being in his arms throughout the long nights.

Shaking her head to drive off thoughts of what was wrong with her life, Maggie forced herself to focus on what was right with it. She had Trent back, and all the time in the world to prove her love to him. She had the children, who, though it took a lot of time and energy to care for them, were worth every second’s effort.

Maggie didn’t know why she’d let herself get mired in negative thoughts, but figured it had something to do with how tired she felt today. The room even tilted a bit when she turned toward the back door as it opened.

“I’m going to have to pull up the corner of the boy’s bathroom to fix that leak on the family room ceiling,” Trent said as he came in carrying a tote full of tools.

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