Holiday Wishes by Nora Roberts

Author:Nora Roberts [Roberts, Nora]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Azizex666, Fiction
ISBN: 9781101569719
Google: aK_2BNq2l_8C
Amazon: B007P7HTSW
Barnesnoble: B007P7HTSW
Goodreads: 16363146
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

It didn’t get much better than a drive in the country on a balmy fall afternoon. Nell remembered how she used to spend a free Saturday in New York. A little shopping—she supposed if she missed anything about Manhattan, it was the shopping—maybe a walk in the park. Never a jog. Nell didn’t believe in running if walking would get you to the same place.

And driving, well, that was even better. She hadn’t realized what a pleasure it was to not only own a car but be able to zip it along winding country roads with the windows open and the radio blaring.

The leaves were beginning to turn now as September hit its stride. Blushes of color competed with the green. On one particular road that she turned down out of impulse, the big trees arched over the asphalt, a spectacular canopy that let light flicker and flit through as the road followed the snaking trail of a rushing creek.

It wasn’t until she glanced up at a road sign that she realized she was on Mountain View.

The big brown house, she remembered Zack had said. There weren’t a lot of houses here, two miles outside of town, but she caught glimpses of some through the shading trees. Brown ones, white ones, blue ones—some close to the creek bed, others high atop narrow, pitted lanes that served as driveways.

A lovely place to live, she thought. And to raise children. However taciturn and stiff Mac Taylor might have been, he’d done a wonderful job with his sons.

She already knew he’d done the job alone. It hadn’t taken long for Nell to understand the rhythm of small towns. A comment here, a casual question there, and she’d had what amounted to a full biography of the Taylor men.

Mac had lived in Washington, DC, since his family moved out of town when he was a young teenager. Six years ago, twin infants in tow, he’d moved back. His older sister had gone to a local college, married a town boy and settled in Taylor’s Grove years before. It was she, the consensus was, who had urged him to come back and raise his children there when his wife took off.

Left the poor little infants high and dry, Mrs. Hollis had told Nell over the bread rack at the general store. Run off with barely a word, and hadn’t said a peep since. And young Macauley Taylor had been mother and father both to his twins ever since.

Maybe, Nell thought cynically, just maybe, if he’d actually talked to his wife now and again, she’d have stayed with him.

Not fair, she thought. There was no decent excuse she could think of for a mother deserting her infant children, then not contacting them for six years. Whatever kind of husband Mac Taylor had been, the children deserved better.

She thought of them now, those impish mirror images. She’d always been fond of children, and the Taylor twins were a double dose of enjoyment. She’d gotten quite a kick out of having them in the audience once or twice a week during rehearsals.

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