Her Perfect Match by Kate Welsh

Author:Kate Welsh [Welsh, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2003-10-15T20:00:00+00:00

“All those two ever do is argue,” Jackson grumbled, knowing he and his father were not much better.

Elizabeth took CJ’s hand and gave her the keys to her car. “Take my car and go. Cole will need you there.”

Shaking her head, CJ stood and handed the keys back. Which could only mean CJ and Cole were still dancing around one another. Didn’t they know how lucky they were? Didn’t they know what they were giving up? Didn’t they know that Jackson would give his left arm to have with Elizabeth what those two clearly had together?

“You take these back and get yourself to that hospital,” Elizabeth ordered, plunking the keys into CJ’s hand again. “My car is at the entrance to the trailer lot.”

CJ looked at the keys. “All right,” she conceded.

Anxiously Jackson watched Elizabeth stare after CJ, her mind lost somewhere unreachable. Her look of longing tugged at his heartstrings.

“So, you need a lift home?” Jackson asked, hopeful his show of temper last night hadn’t put her off permanently. Hopeful he’d misread her rejection.

“I should stay since the New Life Inn is a beneficiary,” Elizabeth said, “but after hearing CJ’s opinion of the course and seeing all the trouble this event has caused, I just don’t think I can.”

“Then suppose I get Prize loaded. We’ll drop him at Laurel Glen and I’ll check on a few things. Then I’ll take you home or to the hospital. Whichever you want. But first I want to apologize for—”

“No. Please,” she cut in. “It was my fault. I shouldn’t have reacted the way I did.”

“And maybe I should have asked what was wrong instead of assuming. There’s an old saying about assuming that I forgot.”

Jackson watched a little smile tip Elizabeth’s lips up at the corners, but then she grew serious again. “I really don’t care what my parents think, you know. That wasn’t the problem.”

“Mind telling me what was?”

Elizabeth shook her head. “I can’t. I just can’t.” She squeezed her eyes shut but not before he glimpsed a soul-deep anguish reflected in them. Twin tears tracked down her cheeks, and she looked at him. “You were right last night. You’re better off without me. I’m just not worth all the turmoil. As you said, have a nice life, Jack.”

If Jackson hadn’t liked thinking she’d pushed him away because of her parents’ disapproval, he really didn’t like what he was thinking now. Seeing now. But with his mother’s warning that Elizabeth was emotionally fragile and with so many other little clues screaming in his mind, he could no longer deny that it all pointed to Elizabeth having been ill-used by some man. Jackson wasn’t sure how, and he couldn’t even bring himself to speculate. All he could do was love her, earn her trust and pray for self-control when he finally did learn the whole story. Because right then he wanted to demand names and go break a few heads. Not a very Christian attitude, but there it was. He’d never felt such anger and anguish at the same time.

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