Harlequin Love Inspired November 2018, Box Set 1 of 2 by Patricia Davids

Author:Patricia Davids
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

You had one job to do: counsel a troubled young woman. And instead, you kissed her.

And now your girls want her to be their mommy.

Later the same day, Carson walked away from Long John’s cabin toward the barn where the dogs were housed. Long John had been happy to have the twins visit for a little while. And Carson had been glad for them to focus on someone other than Lily.

Even now, two hours after that awkward moment when the girls had asked Lily to be their mother, he was beating himself up.

Why had he let their relationship with Lily go so far?

He knew why, though: because in some ways, Lily was perfect for them. She was so sweet, kind, good with the girls. She was beautiful, innocently attracting Carson’s interest without even a hint of provocative clothing or behavior.

Nonetheless, she was hiding things about Pam, and Pam’s death.

And in the end, a woman like Lily would never go for a man like him. She’d started to back away almost the moment after he’d kissed her.

Sure, being in the mountains was fun for now, an adventure to a woman raised in the flatlands, but that would go stale soon. He’d seen it happen with Pam.

And when she got tired of this place, of him, of the girls, she’d leave. Well, that was her right. But what he had to do was keep a distance, avoid building the connection any further.

The potential for hurt was so great. His girls didn’t need another loss in their lives.

He didn’t need it, either.

He had to cut this relationship with Lily off, fast. A little pinch now was better than a huge, painful break later.

A sharp CHEW-EE, CHEW-EE sounded from a fence post, a bright-eyed songbird seeming to call Carson away from his own thoughts and into the world of nature. Obedient, Carson looked out over the wide-flung fields to the Sangre de Cristos, white against the sky’s intense blue.

He sent up a prayer of thanks for the beauty of this place and for being able to stay here over Christmas with his girls.

He needed to think more about his blessings and less about Lily.

Christmases had been simpler when he’d been married and the twins had been small. The girls hadn’t had difficult expectations to fulfill, as they had this Christmas.

Man, he’d screwed up. They’d really, really wanted a dog.

If they’d had a mother, maybe she would have seen that and helped him figure out how to manage it. As it was, he’d been busy and scrambling and not paying enough attention, obviously. Single parenting was an ongoing challenge.

But had it really been that much easier when Pam was here?

When he remembered the two of them together at Christmas, his first thought was of her discontent. She’d always wished for parties and shows and bright lights, things that he, a country pastor, hadn’t been able to provide. Even before the twins had been born, he hadn’t been able to take some fancy trip at Christmas as she’d wanted to.

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