A Groom for Carrie by Marie Higgins

Author:Marie Higgins [Higgins, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marie Higgins
Published: 2020-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

Carrie was curious. It was written all over her face. However, the longer Cade waited for her to make the first move, the intense energy between them was fizzling out. They were now entering the awkward moments, and one of them was going to have to pull away. Since she still looked undecided, the task was left up to him.

Clearing his throat, he dropped his arm from around her waist and glanced back at his scratch. Why he’d bled so much, he didn’t know, but it appeared to have stopped. Then again, being a doctor, he also knew that he should keep his arm above his heart for a little while to give the inside of the wound time to heal.

“I didn’t mean to make your friend run off.” He took the dishcloth and finished wiping away the blood around the wound.

Carrie stepped away from him and proceeded to prepare a small bandage for his arm. “You didn’t. She’s a little shy around men, especially when they are so handsome...” She hitched a breath, and her eyes grew wide. Bright spots of red formed on her cheeks.

He chuckled over her blunder. “So, you think I’m handsome, huh?”

Carrie rolled her eyes. “Oh, Mr. Hamilton, I think you know that answer.” She met his gaze. “You’ve always been handsome, and you flaunted it many times in school.”

Cade shrugged. “Can I help it that the girls liked me?”

She shook her head. “If you recall, not all the girls liked you.” She placed the gauze on his scratch and started to bind it with the bandage.

“I think you were the only one who didn’t.”

“That’s because you pulled my pigtails all the time.”

He grinned, remembering those days. “Maybe it’s because I thought you were the prettiest girl in school.”

She laughed harshly. “If you thought that way, you wouldn’t have been torturing me.”

“Torture?”

“Yes.” She stopped and looked at him again. There was no laughter this time in her big brown eyes. “I had a tender head.” She frowned. “I had pleaded with you to stop, but you never did.”

His heart wrenched, seeing the pain of the past in her eyes. He needed to fix it now. “I’m sorry, Carrie. The truth is, I didn’t stop because at least you paid some attention to a farmer’s boy like I was.” He tenderly touched her hand. “You were the rich girl in class, and I was the poor boy.”

Slowly, her frown turned into a smile. “Really? It wasn’t because you hated me?”

He shook his head. “Not at first. I had wanted your attention, which I’ll admit, I went about it the wrong way. Then, after a while, when I could see it irritated you, I was upset because I didn’t get the kind of reaction I’d wanted.” He gently took hold of her hand and caressed her fingers. “Will you forgive me for being such a foolish dolt?”

She chuckled. “I think we were both foolish at that age, but yes, I forgive you.”

He sighed in relief. At least that was over and done with.

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