Hand Quilted With Love by Joyce Livingston

Author:Joyce Livingston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

Eight

Glorianna lay in bed, as restless as the night before, but for a totally different reason: Trapper. Only this time, she wasn’t mad at him and wishing him off the face of the earth.

I never thought I’d ever be close to a man again. Or trust one. Not after my marriage to Jim. If I hadn’t seen how happy my cousin and her husband have been all twenty years of their marriage, I might have thought all men were creeps. But now, after meeting Trapper, I know better. I just happened to pick one who was a creep. If only I’d listened to my parents, maybe I wouldn’t have had to endure such an awful marriage. How could I have been so blind? I used to think our problems were all my fault. That I wasn’t a good wife. Or I didn’t keep the house clean enough. Or I said the wrong things. Somehow, I convinced myself I got exactly what I deserved.

She smiled in the darkness. But if I hadn’t married Jim, there wouldn’t be a Todd, and he’s worth anything I had to go through.

She flipped to her side, her hands steepled beneath her chin. Things are different now. I’m learning to live on my own and doing a fairly decent job of it.

Sometimes I wish I could spend the rest of my life with Trapper, as his wife, giving him all the love stored up inside of me.

Being so close to him at the fishing hole, feeling his warm breath on my neck, the touch of his chin nestling in my hair, his hand on mine. I haven’t felt like that in a long time. Maybe never. Jimmy had a harshness about him, a way of making me feel I owed him something. A domineering, demeaning way of treating me that made me feel uneasy. Used.

But being with Trapper is nothing like that. Despite his size and ruggedness, Trapper is gentle, caring, sweet, putting my feelings and emotions first. Never trying to upset or unnerve me.

With Jimmy, I felt like a victim; with Trapper, I feel like a queen.

As she lay there, she thought of other differences. Jimmy rarely bothered to be honest with her. Trapper was brutally honest. Right from the start he made it perfectly clear he liked his life exactly the way it was and had no intention of changing it—for her, for anyone. He loved the independence his flying gave him. He also loved his work as a missionary. Both took him away from home for long periods. He didn’t intend to give up either. Dare she think she could ever find a life with Trapper? Could love really come this soon after losing Jim?

Eventually, she drifted off to sleep, her arms wrapped around her pillow.

❧

Trapper left town on an unexpected rush job early Monday morning. The week went by quickly as Todd entered school and Glorianna worked with her staff. Now that the cruise ships no longer came, she had time to implement many of the changes she’d wanted to try.

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