Just Destiny by Theresa Rizzo

Author:Theresa Rizzo [Rizzo, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780989045025
Amazon: 0989045021
Publisher: Theresa Rizzo
Published: 2014-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

God what an idiot. How could Steve have forgotten this was Gabe and Jenny’s song? For two months straight, he’d awakened to the sound of Gabe playing “All I Ask of You” on his piano. While Jenny slept, Gabe got up extra early and let himself into Steve’s house to practice the song before they went on their morning bike ride. He’d learned it for their first anniversary. No wonder she was teary-eyed.

As the refrain came to an end, regardless of possible watching eyes, Steve dropped a kiss on Jenny’s forehead. “Let’s get out of here.”

“It’s okay.” Jenny smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes. “I’m okay.”

She might be okay but the festive mood was gone, intruded on by bittersweet memories for them both. He tugged her hand. “I’ve had enough. Let’s go.”

She flashed him a look of relief. They found their hosts near the buffet and said their goodbyes before retrieving Jenny’s coat and the car. Once seated in the mustang, Steve turned up the heat.

Jenny settled back and closed her eyes. After a few minutes, she rolled her head sideways to peer at him through the dark. “Do you believe in destiny?”

Steve looked both ways before heading out into the street. “Destiny as in our lives are all scripted out for us and we’re just puppets fulfilling some master plan?”

“Yeah. Perhaps I’m just destined to be alone. Maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be and I should stop fighting it. I mean first, I had to give up Michael, then Gabe died on me and now this fight over the baby…maybe I’m not supposed to have a really close love.”

Steve thought of the precipitous end of his baseball career despite the extraordinary precautions he’d taken to avoid tearing his rotator cuff, and then falling for his best friend’s wife. Neither was anything he’d chosen to put himself through. Maybe he did believe in fate.

As they pulled up to a stoplight, he looked at her. “You’re hardly alone. You’ve got friends and family who love you.” He glanced back at the light. Still red.

“But no special love. Maybe I’m being greedy, after all I had Gabe for almost three great years. Maybe that’s it.”

A car honked, Steve glanced up at the green light and pressed his foot to the accelerator. “You’re not being greedy.” He paused, gathering his thoughts. “I believe we each have our own path to travel. Sometimes we make false starts and detours, but we have this internal compass that knows our true path. We just have to listen to it.” He hesitated. “If your internal compass keeps pointing at this baby, then you need to do it. But you’re not supposed to be alone.”

“Ya think?”

As much as his gut protested against her having Gabe’s baby now, he also saw that Jenny radiated love. It was like a positive comforting energy that wrapped around her. With Gabe gone, it seemed her energy needed to be expressed in their child. He got that. Even before Gabe died, she’d wanted a baby.

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