Big Sky Reunion by Charlotte Carter

Author:Charlotte Carter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 037387670X
Publisher: Love Inspired
Published: 2011-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

“Oh?” He turned toward the fire ring. “I thought you were going to wait until the knitting business was stable.”

“I was until I visited the knitting shop in Bozeman. I have to be competitive with them if I’m going to have any chance to succeed.” As they walked, she quickly told him about Knitting & Needles, its size and the merchandise it carried.

“That’s going to take a lot of cash,” he pointed out.

“I’m going to ask the bank for a loan, big enough so I can pay you back and have enough to build up the needlepoint side of the business.”

His slid his fingertips into his back pockets. “There’s no hurry to pay me back.”

“But I want to. With a bank loan, I can spread out the payments over several years. It’ll all work out.” She hoped.

“You’ll have to write up a business plan. The bank won’t loan you money unless they know what you’re going to do with it.”

A business plan? She could do that. “No problem.”

“They’ll check your credit.”

Ouch! They’d find out about her bankruptcy. “Except for my own credit card, you’re the only person I owe money to.”

“Don’t tell ’em about me. We don’t have anything in writing. You don’t want my loan to affect your credit.”

Of course not. She had bigger problems than his thousand-dollar loan. Like the bankruptcy she’d hated to file. And now having to borrow money to get the shop running.

Belatedly, Melinda realized she hadn’t been doing a very good job of chaperoning the kids. Talk about being easily distracted when Daniel was around.

She smiled to herself. He hadn’t given DeeDee a ring!

All those years of feeling he had betrayed her, she’d been wrong. At least as far as DeeDee was concerned.

Which didn’t mean he’d been an angel in cowboy boots, she reminded herself. She still would have had to return to Pittsburgh and leave her summer romance behind. But it wouldn’t have hurt so much.

With a long-handled fork in hand, she stabbed a hotdog and squeezed in between Becca and Grace, who were sitting on the stone fire ring.

“How long do you cook these things?” she asked.

“Depends on whether you like them burned to charcoal or not,” Grace responded.

“I think not would be my choice.”

“The guys all think eating charcoal is macho,” Becca commented.

“Bet they’d eat snips and snails and puppy dog tails, too, if they thought it would impress the girls,” Melinda said, quoting the old poem about what boys are made of.

Both girls giggled. “I don’t even know what a snip is,” Becca said.

“Oh, I think that’s little bits of string or rocks or shells,” Melinda told them. “Anything little boys can and do stick in their mouths.”

Their giggles turned into gales of laughter, Melinda joining in the fun.

Melinda glanced across the fire ring. Daniel caught her eye and volleyed a smile back that smacked into her chest with life-changing force. Her good intentions wavered. Her heart squeezed tight.

With all of her shortcomings, her transgressions against those she had loved,

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