Family to the Rescue by Lissa Manley

Author:Lissa Manley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

“Why don’t I drive you home?” Seth said to Kim after they finished taking inventory around nine o’clock.

He’d have to thank his mom; due to her orderliness, he and Kim had completed the counting chore in record time. Excellent. After his and Kim’s heart-to-heart at the park, he was freaking out a bit. Too much closeness always made him uptight.

That said, he really admired her deep connection with God. But admiring something didn’t make him think he’d ever have it. He was a realist, through and through. Had to be.

He would never share her faith.

Kim paused as she pulled on her hooded navy blue jacket. She looked at him, her eyes wide. “Um…no, thanks. I’d rather walk. I like—”

“The exercise and to reduce your carbon footprint,” Seth supplied.

“You were listening,” she replied, sounding kind of surprised he remembered. She’d told him when she arrived this morning that she preferred walking around town rather than driving whenever possible, both to keep in shape and to be greener. He liked her attempts to go green, actually. And obviously the in-shape part was working quite well.

“Why wouldn’t I?” he asked, slightly puzzled by her comment.

“Oh, I don’t know.” She shrugged her slim shoulders. “Some people don’t pay much attention.”

“You have that right.” His parents had been so busy being buried in conflict, attention for the kids had been slim while he’d been growing up. “Sometimes people get so caught up in their own problems, they don’t pay attention to the ones they should.”

“No kidding,” she whispered, her pain clear, even though her words had been so soft he could barely hear them.

But he heard her. Loud and clear. She’d been wounded deeply by people in her life.

Why did he feel the need to heal that wound? Crazy.

Rattled, he stepped back. “I don’t feel right letting you walk alone,” he said softly, going back to the original subject of their conversation. He needed safer, more familiar ground. “Moonlight Cove is safe, but you never know. A gentleman doesn’t let a lady walk around alone at night.”

“Uh…that’s sweet.” She fumbled with the zipper on her hooded jacket. “But I can walk home by myself.” She got the zipper to work and lifted her head. Her gorgeous brown eyes collided with his.

His breath left him in a rush. For a long second their gazes connected, blue to brown.

Sanity caught him. “No, no.” He backed up. “I don’t want you walking home by yourself. I’ll get my jacket and we’ll head out.”

Kim tilted her head to one side. She hesitated for another moment then said, “Okay. That’d be nice.”

A few minutes later he’d locked up the store and they were headed toward Rose’s house. The wind had died down, but the temperature had dropped to what Seth called “coastal cool.” It was a beautiful summer evening, with clear skies, sparkling stars and, appropriately, a glowing moon hanging low in the darkening, orange-tinted sky.

There were still plenty of people on the boardwalk, many of them families congregated around

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