Dream House: A Second Chance Romance (Second Chances Book 6) by Jean Brashear

Author:Jean Brashear [Brashear, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, romance
Publisher: Jean Brashear
Published: 2019-09-23T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

When she got inside, however, Jezebel was alone. She started to turn and ask him why, but realized she could not.

She and Micah had been physically as close as two people ever could—but they were strangers, for all that. Some questions were too intimate for even friends to ask. She’d bluffed her way this far, but her nerve wasn’t sufficient to dare more.

And, truth be told, she was relieved to be able to explore this house alone.

Then her heart sank. From the first glance, she understood that no matter how much time he granted her, she would wish for more.

This was it…the house of her dreams.

As she wandered from room to room, she found herself torn between laughing and crying. You could literally feel the devotion that bolstered every board, exuded from each stroke of paint. The imprint of grief lingered, yes, but she was wrapped, above all, in a silken cocoon of tenderness and warmth and…there was only the one word for it: love. Of a kind she’d only ever imagined.

She chided herself not to tarry, but she would have gladly stayed forever if she hadn’t known that outside waited a man for whom every second she forced him to remain was torment.

By the time she walked back onto the front porch, she was in tears. Desperately, she sought to stem them.

“Don’t.” Misery knotted with anger.

She started to speak. Couldn’t. Ducked her head and hurried past him to her car.

Just before she reached it, heavy footsteps thundered behind her. He grabbed her arm. “Where are you going?”

She didn’t try to escape him but didn’t look at him, either.

“Damn it, why are you crying? Better not be for me.”

At that, she whirled. “A stone would weep in that place.”

He reared back as if stung. “What’s wrong with it? Not good enough for you after all?”

“No.” She sniffed. Brushed at her eyes. “I’d sell my soul to live there. I’d do nearly anything to give Skeeter that chance, but—”

“But what?”

She met his gaze. “It’s beautiful, Micah. More than. I almost wish you hadn’t let me go inside.” She lifted her palms. “But I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. It’s every dream I never dared to have.”

“And?”

“No one deserves that place but you. I can feel you, both of you, in every room. How you must have loved her.” Tears spurted again. “And how obviously she felt cherished by you.”

He recoiled as if she’d struck him. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“I understand how painful it must be to be without her—”

“You understand nothing.” Bone-deep sorrow reverberated in his voice. To remain in Three Pines must be hellish, all the more so because he couldn’t be sure how long he would have to stay.

“So tell me,” she said.

He stilled. Peered out for only an instant from the fortress he’d built around him before retreating again. “No,” he said quietly. “That’s a story I will tell only once, to one woman.”

“All right.” Clearly, she wasn’t that special person. The anguish in his gaze kept the worst of her hurt at bay.

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