Her Dream Come True by Donna Clayton

Author:Donna Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

Edginess and anxiety had been Hannah’s constant companions ever since her talk with Adam. Was he right? she wondered. Was there something wrong with her independent nature?

No, she kept telling herself. Of course there wasn’t.

Tammy and Brian were sitting at the kitchen table, talking. Hannah could see the young man through the front picture window from where she was prepping on the front porch. Now that Hannah knew about Tammy’s beau, her sister felt there was no need to hide her visits with Brian.

As much as she hadn’t wanted to like her sister’s boyfriend, Hannah had to admit that she’d found Brian to be mannerly, if a little on the shy side. And he treated Tammy with a wondrous gentleness.

Hannah had spent the last half hour sweeping up paint chips off the porch floor and darting covert glances through the window at them. She was amazed by the deep feelings that had evolved in her for Tammy.

She’d come to Little Haven to do what she could for a sister she didn’t know, and now she was experiencing some new and complicated emotions that could almost be described as maternal.

Her wristwatch told her she still had an hour to wait for Adam’s arrival. She just fumed to think about his free-and-easy attitude toward work. The man seemed to be as ambitious as a slug. How did he ever think to get ahead in life?

The question was like sandpaper against tender skin, and her irritation flared.

She was irritated at Adam for putting off the job of painting the house, and irritated at herself for being attracted to such a...a lazybones.

“I’ve waited long enough,” she murmured to the still summer day. She wasn’t even sure he’d show up at noon like he’d promised.

That’s when she went around back to the shed. She dragged out the rickety old ladder she’d used to scrape the paint from the porch. And then she gathered the paint, the brushes and rollers she’d bought in town. She wouldn’t wait for Adam, she’d tackle this job herself.

Instinct told her to start at the top and work down, so she positioned the ladder at one corner and climbed up to paint the porch ceiling. Two dribbles of white pigment ran down her arm, a fat drip plopped on her jaw, before she realized she was filling her brush too full. She swiped at the paint, smearing it across her skin. She’d clean up later.

Every ten minutes or so she’d come down from the ladder and take a quick peek through the window to see that Brian was still seated at the kitchen table. She probably shouldn’t worry so much over Tammy and Brian being friends, but she just couldn’t shake the nebulous anxiety that gnawed at her.

They’re in love, Adam had told Hannah.

Well, something could happen to break them up, Hannah fretted as she climbed the ladder. Tammy could get her heart broken, and Hannah didn’t know if her delicate sister could handle such pain and rejection. On the other hand, their relationship might blossom into something deeper, something more.

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