Lonestar Homecoming by Colleen Coble

Author:Colleen Coble
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, ebook, book
ISBN: 9781595547347
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

16

THEY’D SPENT THE DAY SPLASHING WITH THE KIDS IN THE HOT SPRINGS, and Gracie was gloriously relaxed. She kicked off her flip-flops and wiggled her toes against the carpet in the truck’s cab. She’d loved spending the day as a family, once she got Michael to stop questioning her.

The sun slid down the sky in a brilliant display that set the desert on fire.The eroded rocks looked on like sentries guarding the ribbon of road that was empty except for Michael’s big truck.The kids slept in the backseat. Caesar curled on the floor.They were just like any other family on an outing.

Except they weren’t.

She stole a glance at Michael’s firm jawline, mentally tracing his strong nose and lips, the solid column of his neck, and the muscles in this arms as he maneuvered the truck along the narrow highway. “Thanks for the fun day,” she said. “The kids enjoyed it too.”

He smiled, glancing in the rearview mirror. “They’re sacked out.” He didn’t sound displeased at the thought. “What do you want out of life, Gracie? You never said.”

She looked away quickly. “I haven’t thought about it.” What would he think if she told him her dream was always to be a wife and mother? To have that perfect home with a picket fence and a man who rushed home to her at night? Such an old-fashioned dream to admit to.

Her cell phone rang, and she exchanged a glance with him. “I wonder if that’s Sam.” She dug it out of her purse. “It is.” She flipped it open. “Hello, Sam, this is Gracie.”

“Gracie, finally,” his voice boomed. “I wasn’t sure you got the message I left.”

His voice looked like a red sun surrounded by orange light. For some reason, it made her sit straighter. “Sam?”

“If he doesn’t already know, don’t tell him about Hope,” Michael whispered.

She nodded and concentrated on her answer to Sam. “I got your message, but I haven’t had a chance to call you back. I’m so sorry about Jason. I hadn’t heard he died.”

“Thank you. It’s been hard. Now Tyler is sick.” His voice choked. “Looks like I might outlive my boys.”

She struggled to remember Tyler. It had been nearly six years since she’d seen any of the Wheelers.When she was dating Jason, his younger brother had been fifteen or so. Tyler would be twenty-one now. “What’s wrong with Tyler?”

“Same thing as Jason. Polycystic kidney disease.They won’t even let him have a transplant because they say the disease will just destroy the new kidney. He’s on dialysis now.”

“I’m so sorry, Sam.” She wanted to ask why he was calling after all this time, but she didn’t want to be rude.What was his wife’s name? She couldn’t remember the quiet woman who mostly stayed in the kitchen.

“Jason said something before he died.At first I thought he was out of his head and rambling.Then I got to wondering if it might be true. He said you had a baby. His baby. Is that true?”

She could lie. Or maybe hang up and not answer when he called back.

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