Harlequin Intrigue March 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2 by Debra Webb Michele Hauf Cassie Miles

Author:Debra Webb, Michele Hauf, Cassie Miles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

The Shady Pines assisted living facility had been around as long as Sasha could remember. As a child her grandmother had brought her here to visit one of her teachers, Ms. Clements, who had been in a terrible accident. She had no husband or family, so she’d had to stay in this facility through her rehab. Three months later she was able to return home but she was never able to teach again. Ms. Clements had been Sasha’s favorite teacher. She was the one to sit in the bathroom with her whenever she felt the need to cry that first year back at school after her parents died.

Sasha should visit her while she was in Winchester. Ms. Clements would love seeing photos of Sasha’s daughter. She smiled to herself as she thought of all the things about her childhood that she needed to show her daughter…including the father her daughter didn’t know.

The realization startled Sasha but there was no denying the truth.

She put her car in Park and shut off the engine. For years now she had been telling herself that she should talk to Brianne about her father. Her daughter had gone through that phase where she’d asked every other day about her father. Sasha had told her that he was a good man but that he didn’t know he had a daughter. So far Brianne hadn’t questioned her mother further but Sasha understood the time was coming. Her daughter was quickly going from a child to a teenager.

The truth was, how could Sasha be so intent on having the truth about her own childhood when she concealed her daughter’s? She had been afraid to tell Branch. Not at first. At first she’d been certain he wouldn’t be interested, so she had chosen not to tell him. Their one night together hadn’t been about love or the promise of a future; it had been about need and happenstance. Neither was a good foundation for a relationship. She had told herself that Branch wouldn’t want to be weighed down with fatherhood and at the time that was most likely the case.

Years later, on a visit to her grandmother, she had run into him again. He, too, was home for a visit and he had talked and talked about how exciting his work was in Chicago. He had been happy, focused singularly on his career. Again, Sasha had told herself that she had made the right decision. But then, two years ago her grandmother had shared Arlene’s concerns about how lonely Branch was. He’d mentioned to Arlene that he worried that he’d waited too long to pursue a real relationship…that maybe a family wasn’t in the cards for him.

Sasha had always intended to find a way to tell him, but time had slipped away. Her grandmother had never advised her either way. She’d said Sasha would know what to do when the time came.

“I’m still waiting for that time to come, G’ma.”

She climbed out of her car, draped her bag over her shoulder and headed for the assisted living center entrance.

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