Last Second Chance (A Thomas Family Novel Book 2) by Kristi Cramer

Author:Kristi Cramer [Cramer, Kristi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kristi Cramer Books
Published: 2017-04-10T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Janie took her time studying how Tim looked in her hat. She reached up and pulled the brim down a bit so it sat lower on his brow, then she nodded. “It’ll do,” she told him, although what she really wanted to say was that it was sexy. Very sexy.

She took a deep breath and let it out slowly as he leaned toward her. She closed the distance between them, trying to still the flutter in her heart.

“You okay?” he asked quietly, his voice barely reaching her over the sound of the music.

Her breath caught in her throat, like it had when he mentioned her smudged mascara. She tried to smile but felt her lip trembling, so she bit it instead. “Not really,” she admitted. “I just found out that something I believed for eighteen years was not what I thought it was. It...kinda rocked my world, and I’m still reeling.”

She wasn’t sure how much he could hear, so she leaned closer. “You know I have a daughter, right? Well, her father is back in town, and he explained why he left.” Tim met her gaze, his dark eyes reflecting the turmoil she still felt. “All these years, I thought he just didn’t want the responsibility and ran scared,” she confessed. “I went through hell raising Kylie on my own, and I hated him for that. Not for Kylie, but for the pain of being a single mom in this small town, you know?”

She took another deep breath, looking for some sign of judgment in Tim’s eyes, but she only saw compassion there. That made it easier to continue.

“Today, he told me he’d been scared, but only because, well...because I was only sixteen when I got pregnant. He was nineteen.” Tim sat back when she said that, but only for a moment. He leaned forward again, reaching across the table to touch her hand. “His parents basically forced him to leave rather than acknowledge an illegitimate child, and people told him he was going to go to jail. He’s asking for my forgiveness now, but I’m torn. I mean, he still left me, you know? I still went through all that pain on my own, but he suffered, too.” She sighed and shook her head. “I just don’t know what I feel....”

“Wow. That’s...rough. I couldn’t imagine.” He turned his hand so he could squeeze hers, but she could tell he didn’t know what else to say. After a moment, he asked, “Do you think he wants to get back with you?” The look on his face might have made her laugh if she didn’t understand the feeling behind it.

“Doesn’t matter,” she said, resolutely. “There’s too much water under that bridge. Not when.... I’m not even sure I could just be friends with him.”

Tim’s expression looked like relief mixed with a kind of hope, but before either of them could say anything, the barmaid appeared with a tray holding two shot glasses of an amber liquid, a saltshaker, and two lime slices.

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