Jillian Hart by Sara's Gift (A Christmas Novella)

Author:Sara's Gift (A Christmas Novella) [Gift, Sara's]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Upstairs in the guest room Connie had made snug for her, Sara closed tight the door against the pleasant conversation down below. Connie and Jim had greeted her, and she had tried to be polite, but she knew her heart showed. How could it not? Connie had looked puzzled, but genuinely concerned. It was the depth of sincerity of these people, of Gabe and his sister, that troubled her the most.

They were good people, and she was deceiving them. Living in their house, eating their food and taking advantage of their trust. All to get close to Mary. If there were another place in town she could go, she would have done it. But there was no place else.

She didn't light the beautiful crystal lamps in the room. She much preferred the dark. Her heart aching, she hung up her cloak and muffler and pulled off her shoes. The room was chilly, but she didn't mind. Her chest burned, and she sat down on the window seat, the store-bought cushions and pillows so fine.

Outside starlight sheened on silvered blue snow. Like a picture in a storybook—that was how the world looked with the dark sentry of trees tipped with white, the shades and shadows of darkness shrouding houses and mountains as black as the night. All was as still as a hush, as the quietest whisper when the wind blew. She knew how that wind smelled, because it still clung to her clothes and hair, that fresh clean brightness mixed with the dark scents of wood smoke, of pine and cedar.

She saw Gabe ambling up the steps to his house, saw the slope of his shoulders, muscled and set, saw the bow of his head, slight, but unmistakable. She'd handled this so badly. Her lips still tingled with his kiss, with the hot brush of passion and need. Her chest ached remembering how exquisite it had felt to be held and kissed like a princess in a fairy tale, feeling precious and treasured.

And she'd given herself to him in that kiss, in that brush of lips and mingling of breaths.

Ipromise. I have the best of intentions. She watched Gabe hesitate on the porch, gazing through the darkness toward the house, to the window where she sat watching him. He couldn't see her, she knew, but she felt his question and his disappointment.

Please give me a chance, he'd said. Gabe Chapman wanted her—he'd said those very words. You are the kind of lady I've been wishing for.

Sara had loved her baby from the moment she knew she was pregnant, and when she was born—why, that sweet little girl had grabbed hold of Sara's heart and no force in the universe could break that love. What of Gabe and his intentions? Even now her heart still felt warmed by the evening of laughter and songs and bedtime stories.

And while she could not deny the attraction she felt for Gabe, what would it do to Mary? Giving in to her own desires for

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