Before I Wake by Dee Henderson

Author:Dee Henderson [Henderson, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Christian / Romance, Romance Suspense
ISBN: 9781590521687
Publisher: Multnomah
Published: 2003-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

25

Bruce had bought himself a small-town mansion. From the street the house looked like something from another era. Rae let her car coast to a pause at the curb so she could better study the place.

Two stories, square, with big pillars on a porch wrapping around three sides of the house—architecturally she thought it was maybe early 1900s. The home sat on a corner lot, with a spacious yard stretching in all directions, the trees towering above showing off a hundred years of sturdy growth. Big. Built by someone who had money even in that day.

One guy. Bruce must have walked around that much space and just laughed and said I’ll buy it. Hardwood floors throughout, she bet, and probably an updated kitchen. She knew Bruce. He wasn’t a man for small increments. Retire, get out of cramped one-room undercover apartments, and step up right to this. She smiled. She was glad for him.

Rae pulled into the driveway and parked on the other side of the drive from Bruce’s car. Knowing her friend, she figured the garage had already been transformed inside into a comfortable workshop for his reconditioned Jaguar.

She opened the backseat door of her car and retrieved the gift. The walkway had been swept off. She balanced her housewarming gift in her arms as she walked in the dusting of snow toward the back door. Bruce had decorated the porch to make it more like front door number two, with a big wreath and welcome sign.

The door opened before she reached it. Bruce laughed and stepped out onto the porch. “Next time remind me to qualify the invitation to just being one guest.”

“You remember George?”

He grinned. “How could I forget?” He reached for her gift, so she could walk up the stairs with a hand free for the railing. “What did you do, go unpack those boxes your movers neatly put into storage just to find him?”

“Just a couple of the biggest boxes. A tall neck, you know.”

The giraffe was straining his attempts to get it inside the door. “I think I’m honored. Or speechless. Maybe something in between there. What brought this to mind?”

“Those county-fair pictures. We had to tie him to the roof of the car the night you won it.”

“I remember.”

Rae stepped inside the house after him and pulled off her gloves. “Never say I forget a promise. I said we’d share him. Since I’ve had him a decade, I thought he could keep you company. He can be a hat stand or something and be useful.”

Bruce draped his arm across the giraffe’s body. “No need; he’s a conversation starter, and that will do just fine as his purpose in life. Make yourself at home; I’m going to give this guy a place of honor in the main hall.”

She looked around the open kitchen they had entered. “Go. I like the idea of exploring.”

Bruce disappeared through one of the two doorways. “I picked up all my socks in your honor,” he called back. “There’s hot cider or hot chocolate.

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