Dream House by Jean Brashear

Author:Jean Brashear
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Jean Brashear Literary Trust
Published: 2019-02-05T16:00:00+00:00

Micah listened to the engine in that wreck of a car running rough as she departed. He flexed the fingers of the hand she’d clasped, and quickly shut them.

I make a good friend.

She was a hell of a lover, too.

But neither mattered.

Or mattered too much.

Who was the last friend he’d had, besides his family? He couldn’t recall. Charlotte had been his closest companion since they were kids. His brothers had filled any need for male company. In New York, he’d kept to himself, mostly. He was there to work. To discover if he could create a life worth living without—

Enough.

This time, he realized with a shock, the voice was not his mother’s or Charlotte’s.

The voice of reason…was his.

Reluctantly he faced the cottage. For the first time, the figure on the porch was not Charlotte.

It was, damn her hide, Jezebel Hart. Face glowing, tears and wonder shining in her eyes.

“No—” he groaned. Squeezed his lids shut. Shook his head to dislodge her.

It’s every dream I never dared have.

“No!” he shouted. “It’s not your dream. It’s Charlotte’s. It’s—” Mine.

Mine.

He opened his eyes again, his chest too tight to breathe. And viewed the cottage, just for an instant, through Jezebel’s eyes.

Not scarred with agony, not tarnished by guilt but freed from either, a sturdy and graceful haven once blessed by laughter.

And sanctified by love.

No one deserves that place but you.

“You’re wrong, Jezebel. No one has earned it less,” he murmured, but within him, shame stirred. He had buried the best of him here and turned a place of beauty into a crypt. As with the fairy tale, the brambles were beginning to creep in and would soon bury it alive.

He was lauded for his ability to render beauty with a brush, to transform women into enchantresses, yet his single finest creation was dying before his eyes.

For the sake of the love that once lived here, it was time to bring the cottage back to life.

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