Dakota Home by Debbie Macomber

Author:Debbie Macomber [Macomber, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-01T16:34:30.142000+00:00

“When are you seeing Rachel Fischer again?” Lily Quantrill demanded as she rolled her wheelchair toward her grandson.

Heath regarded his grandmother and released a long, slow sigh. “I’m not seeing Rachel. At all.” He hated to spend his weekly visit arguing with his grandmother. Lily continually asked questions about his relationship with Rachel, and he’d put her off a number of times already. He’d manufactured excuses, listed reasons and, whenever possible, avoided the subject entirely. It was time, past time actually, that she knew the truth.

“Not seeing Rachel? Why not?” Lily snapped. “I thought you were keen on her. Seems to me you wanted to bed her.”

“Grandma, listen—”

“I like her. I knew her parents. For that matter, I dated her grandfather. Would’ve married him myself if I hadn’t met Michael when I did. She’s exactly the kind of woman I want to see you marry.”

If only it were that easy! Heath stood and looked out over the view of the winding Red River, the very river that had devastated Grand Forks a few years earlier. He’d been living in Europe then, and even there the television news had carried pictures of the flooding. Much of the town had been on fire. He’d watched in horrified amazement as he caught sight of the family bank building shooting flames into the sky, the dancing reflection caught in the flood waters below. By the time he got home, it had been rebuilt, reminding him then as now that the people of North Dakota endured and began anew when they had to.

“Heath,” Lily said with impatience. “What’s gotten into you?”

“It isn’t going to work with Rachel and me,” he admitted, not bothering to disguise his disappointment. He could think of no way to say it other than flat out.

He and Rachel had started out on the wrong foot, and he blamed himself for that; he’d pushed too hard. However, on their second date they’d gone to a movie right in Buffalo Valley. He didn’t care that he’d seen it two years earlier and it’d been on video for months. After patiently waiting for her to give him a second chance, Heath would have been willing to watch Donald Duck cartoons. She couldn’t fault his behavior, either; he’d been the perfect gentleman. At the end of the evening, he’d gently kissed her, then quietly left.

Since then, they’d gone out periodically, but it was obvious that a relationship with him was a low priority for Rachel. Every spare minute she had was spent on her restaurant business. It was her second love—after her son—and he fell back a distant third. No, fourth. Hell, he didn’t even know if he was in the running. Their last so-called date was a prime example. They were supposed to have breakfast together. She’d managed to squeeze him into her busy schedule only to cancel at the last minute. Although she’d seemed genuinely sorry, her apology had done little to soothe his ego. Simply put, she didn’t have time for him.

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