A Home for Her Heart by Janet Lee Barton

Author:Janet Lee Barton [Barton, Janet Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780373282814
Google: NtFUBAAAQBAJ
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Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

As the clock inched nearer to noon the next day, Elizabeth wondered if John would be waiting for her in the foyer of the Delineator building. She’d forgotten to give him the slip of paper with the building’s address the night before, choosing to take the coward’s way out and hurry upstairs after the last song was sung.

It wasn’t like her at all, but then again, she’d never had quite this predicament to deal with, either. Fearing she’d see only regret that he’d kissed her in John’s eyes, she hadn’t looked at him. And she didn’t want to give him a chance to voice any apology, either.

Instead, she’d hurried into the bathroom and got ready for bed, knowing she had time before Luke and Kathleen said their good-nights downstairs. If Kathleen wondered why she wasn’t up to talking over the evening, as was their custom, she wouldn’t know it until the next day. And by then, hopefully she’d have her feelings under control...if that were possible.

She’d gone to her knees in prayer, asking the Lord to help her sort them out. She wasn’t even sure what she was feeling the most. Embarrassment that she’d begun to press her lips to John’s before she had sense enough to pull back? Or regret that she had pulled back?

Elizabeth caught her breath at that thought, for it seemed to be the strongest at the moment. Or was she simply confused about it all? What had she been thinking to let him get that close in the first place?

She hadn’t been thinking. She’d only been feeling. And that was something Elizabeth hadn’t let herself do about a man in a very long time. And she couldn’t afford to let herself feel anything more for John than just friendship. Not now, not ever, for she was sure he’d regret kissing her once he found out she wasn’t who he thought she was.

Elizabeth sighed and forced herself to get back to work, looking over the photos she might work into her next article for the magazine.

She picked up a photo of the children who’d been sitting on the stoop of one of the buildings in the tenements. They so reminded her of Kathleen’s nephews the first time she’d seen them in the park. That look of anguish that so many children in the tenements had. It broke her heart. She laid it aside to use. If it and others like it didn’t garner support for those in the tenements, nothing would.

She chose another of the horrible condition the buildings were in. Trash everywhere, probably rats hiding inside the piles. She shivered. Then she chose another photo she’d taken the day she and John went by themselves—John again! She couldn’t let herself keep thinking about how his lips felt on hers or how much she’d wanted to kiss him.

Perhaps it was a good thing she’d be going to her aunt’s for a few days. Maybe she needed some distance from John, some time to put the changes in their relationship into perspective.

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