Hope at Christmas by Nancy Naigle

Author:Nancy Naigle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Chapter Twelve

Sydney walked into The Book Bea, but instead of a greeting she was met by a glare from Bea and a snippety, “What are you doing here? It’s your day off, and today’s the big day.”

“The big day?”

“You’re meeting Mac.”

“Oh stop it.”

“You need to get gussied up for the most handsome available man in all of Hopewell. That takes time.”

“Bea. You know it’s just an early supper with our kids. Not really a gussy-up type of thing.”

“What I know is that you need someone to remind you how fantastic you are. You’re a beautiful, smart, vibrant young woman. You should be appreciated for that.”

“You appreciate me plenty for a lifetime.”

“That is not the kind of admiration I meant and you know it. And he’s a good one. I have an intuition about people.”

“He seems very nice. I do have a question about him, though.”

“I have most of the answers around this town.” She lifted her chin. “What is it you want to know?”

“It’s just not often you see a father with custody of his child. Which seems to be the case with Mac. What’s the story there?”

“Oh, yes.” Bea rubbed her aching fingers. “That’s not your usual story. His wife was younger than him. She was a wild one, but boy he loved her. They hadn’t been married long when she got pregnant. He was so excited. Handing out cigars the day they found out it was going to be a boy. She never seemed as excited as he was about it, but then she was pretty sick through the pregnancy, too, if I remember correctly.”

Sydney thought back to when she’d been pregnant with RayAnne. She’d had one of those horrible, sickly first trimesters, too. It was torture.

“Once the baby was born she spent more time out on the town than home. She really didn’t have a very nice reputation, if you know what I mean. Mac was home taking care of the baby most of the time. He was pretty much a single parent even when she was around.”

“So they divorced?”

“No. She left. Well, yes, Mac finally got the divorce as irreconcilable differences. It wasn’t easy, though. She up and left on Christmas. He had to track her down to get the divorce. She just abandoned them both and never came back.”

“Not even for a visit?”

“Nope. She moved on to something new and never looked back. No communication at all, from what I hear. Quite bizarre. The girl had absolutely zero maternal instincts.”

“Wow, and I thought my situation was bad. Just goes to show you things can always be worse.”

“It depends on your perspective. Mac was sad. He adored Genna. Worked two jobs just to spoil her. He was so happy, I think it really came to him as a big surprise.”

“That’s too bad.”

“But I think once he got over the initial shock, it was also a huge relief for him to not live with that frustration. No one wants to be with someone who doesn’t want them.”

Sydney couldn’t agree more.

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