A Sunday Love by Verity Norton

Author:Verity Norton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Fiction Works
Published: 2014-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

Matt cringed as he glanced at his watch for the third time since he’d left the construction site. He hated being late. Not that Arielle would mind. She wouldn’t leave. Nor would she worry that he wasn’t going to show up. She knew better. She was more secure than that.

Still, his mind flashed on the day before when he’d gone to her apartment, when they’d cleared their picnic lunch off the bed so they could do other things, and when he’d told her he had a question to ask her. She had tensed. That was not his imagination. If he was at all good at reading her, she was worried that his question was one she did not want to answer, or at least one she was not ready to answer. She was not ready to discuss their future.

He groaned as his truck bounced off the dirt road at the edge of the McCullough property onto paved road. “Sorry, Truf,” he mumbled and reached over to pat his dog who had been disturbed from his comfortable nesting ball. The dog groaned and settled back down.

He slowed down slightly as he followed the road into town. Only a few more minutes and he’d be with her. Okay, so she was not suffering from insecurity, but for the first time in his life, he sure as hell was.

He remembered Nick’s advice—Sean hadn’t been much help. Keep your eye on the end result, he thought as he pictured Arielle walking down the church aisle toward him. If Nick could do it, so could he.

All he needed was a little patience. Yeah, right. When had he ever been patient? Hell, he’d even told his children to hurry the hell up when they were fighting their way into the world. Of course, that might have had something to do with Charlotte’s screaming at him and digging deep holes in his skin with her fingernails.

He sighed as he rounded the corner and headed toward the store. If there had ever been a time that required patience, it was now—if he didn’t want to blow it. The last thing he wanted to do was push too hard and have Arielle run the other way.

He knew better than to push someone into a commitment. It backfires. Ironic, he thought, considering that Charlotte had pushed him into a commitment. His laugh was sardonic. Not long after Charlotte had left, Cassie had told him that her sister had gotten pregnant on purpose. To trap him. And he’d fallen for it. And risen to the occasion. He had left Berkeley and come home to finish school so he could be with her during the pregnancy and birth of their first child. And despite the forced commitment, he had stayed. She hadn’t.

Still, he had learned enough to know that you cannot force someone to stay. Despite her having been the one to trap him, and despite his attempt to convince her to stay, she had fled.

He felt a slight jab at his heart as he recalled the day his wife had walked out on him .

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