In His Good Hands by Shanae Johnson

Author:Shanae Johnson [Johnson, Shanae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Those Johnson Girls

Chapter Twelve

"You guys make such a cute couple."

Ginger didn't respond to Eva Lopez’s query. She didn’t want to be rude, but she didn’t know the woman well enough to answer such a personal question. The two women had gone to high school together, but they hadn’t run in the same circles.

Ginger had been active in clubs, but Eva never stayed after school. She'd had too many responsibilities. First, her sick parents, and then her two younger siblings to take care of. Now, Eva was nearing the completion of a college degree.

She still had her two siblings to care for, but she also had a husband. Eva—well, she supposed she was Eva DeMonti now—had married one of the soldiers who came to convalesce on the Purple Heart Ranch. Fran DeMonti had come to Montana with shrapnel in his heart. But when he met Eva, a miracle happened. The shards that could’ve pierced his heart moved aside to allow love in his life.

It was an amazing love story. One for the books, for sure. But Ginger didn’t have time to read romance novels. She was too busy solving the world’s real problems.

So, she pretended not to hear Eva’s statement about her and Chase because Ginger knew there was a hidden question mark in there. A question mark that Ginger wasn’t sure of the answer to.

Chase had called her his girlfriend back at the private school. But it had been part of the act. Hadn’t it?

What hadn’t been an act was the way her heart had flipped. The way her fingernails had dug into her palms with want. The way her body had melted and molded into Chase’s as he’d put his arm around her.

"I knew there was something between them after that dinner,” Maggie Banks was saying.

Ginger knew Maggie from high school, as well. Maggie had mostly kept to herself back then. Or she’d engaged whatever animal was about. Even now, the veterinarian had two dogs at her feet and a beautiful baby bouncing on her lap. Across the table, Maggie’s husband, Dylan, sipped his sweet tea while gazing adoringly at his family.

Eva’s husband Fran told knock-knock jokes with her little brother while her little sister rested against Fran’s healed chest.

Reece Cartwright and his wife Beth, who was the daughter of the town’s pastor, held their own private conversation while his hand rested on her growing belly. Beside them, Reece’s twin sister Reegan laughed at something her husband, Brandon Lucas, said.

Ginger was surrounded by happy brides and adoring husbands. The group included her newlywed sister. Mark Ortega hung on Honey’s every word as she went on and on about the little projects she was taking up around the ranch. Ginger still couldn’t believe that her sister, who had never gotten a single speck of dirt on her her entire life, had happily taken to ranch life like she’d been born to it.

"Chase is the last of his team that's single, you know?"

Oh, Ginger knew all right. She was made aware of that little fact any and every time she came and visited the ranch these past three months.

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