Blaze (A Minxes of Romance anthology) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

A week later, four days after the newspaper had been printed and distributed throughout the village, Ben had about given up on hearing from Cassie. His master plan at gaining her forgiveness had failed.

He picked up the folded paper from the counter in the milking shed. His own words stared back at him:

Lonely farmer seeks journalist who holds the key to his heart with a view to a permanent relationship. Apologises unreservedly for past arrogance and promises to have learnt from mistake.

He couldn’t go anywhere without fingers pointed at him and people sniggering behind their hands. And that was just the polite ones. He’d achieved utter humiliation but Cassie remained silent.

“Ben!”

He looked up at the shout of his name, taking time to let the cow he’d milked loose into the main pen. He would let her back out to the field when he'd dealt with the interruption.

Cassie strode through the milking shed, the heels of her boots clipping against the concrete floor.

“You’ve seen the paper then?”

He deserved whatever she wanted to throw at him. She was right. He'd been a high handed arrogant fool. His only defence was he'd been young then. Young and incredibly stupid. He'd never make that mistake now.

“Yes, I have. And I have an advert of my own.” Her eyes were bright as she smiled directly at him. The nervous swirling in his gut dissipated somewhat. “Read this.”

He took the paper she offered and scanned the headline before looking back to her.

“Read it!” She urged.

Ben's eyes followed the words but he couldn't make sense of it. He understood that she'd written an article she hoped would go into the local newspaper but what she'd written wasn't right.

“Cassie, I don't ...”

“What do you think?” She smiled, her enthusiasm infectious even as his brain struggled to process the information.

“I'm not sure you being here all the time would be such a great idea.” Ben searched for the right thing to say. “You'd be a distraction.”

“I would bloody well hope so!”

“But why would you want to do this?”

“Because I love you, you stupid man.” She stepped forward and took the sheet of paper from his hand. “Your mum and I talked about using the old barn as a bed and breakfast cottage for holidaying families. I guess she always thought I would do it when we got married.”

“She never said.” Ben looked away from Cassie towards the village and the graveyard in St Peter’s Church where his mother rested next to his father. “Why didn't she tell me your plans?”

“I think everyone simply expected us to get married and maybe she never thought she had to tell you about every single conversation we ever had. Maybe she meant to but there was never enough time?”

Cassie rubbed a hand over his forearm, the gesture comforting but her nearness robbed him of his ability to think logically. His mother had died after a three month struggle against a particularly aggressive form of cancer. He hated that he hadn't known his mother's plans before she died.

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