Love at Last by Panzera Darlene

Author:Panzera, Darlene [Panzera, Darlene]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Books to Go Now
Published: 2013-04-20T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Robert whistled to the dogs, and together they trudged up the snowy embankment to his four wheel drive. It was a Suburban. The kind Noelle had always wanted. The kind Jack thought unsuitable for anyone with social status.

“What type of work do you do?” she asked, buckling her seatbelt.

Robert started the engine. “I buy houses, fix them up, and re-sell them.”

Noelle studied his profile as he steered the truck back onto the road. He was far too good-looking to be a fixer-upper.

“Are you married?” She asked the question without thinking and blushed at how forward she sounded.

“No, I’m available,” Robert said lightheartedly. “Are you?” He glanced over at her, his eyes resting on the gaudy rock on her finger. Jack’s rock.

Noelle turned her hand over in her lap. Her cheeks burned. Her eyes stung with tears.

Robert opened his mouth to apologize, but she waved his words aside.

“It’s — it’s me,” she said, her throat raw. “There is someone who wants to marry me.” She looked away, and one of the dogs in the back seat leaned forward and licked her ear. “I haven’t given him an answer yet.”

“Then something’s missing,” Robert said, turning the wheel.

“I didn’t say that.” Noelle’s mind whirled, as if she was sliding over the embankment all over again.

“If there wasn’t,” Robert insisted, “you wouldn’t have hesitated in saying yes.”

He was right. She should have leapt with joy when Jack proposed. Instead, she asked for time.

“I keep waiting for that… special look,” Noelle began, slipping Robert a cautious glance. He was focusing on the road. Wringing her hands together, she continued. “A look where Jack and I look at each other… And for once, the clock stops ticking, the earth stops moving… A look of…” Her voice trailed off in embarrassment as Robert turned his head.

“Of love,” he said, finishing her sentence.

A look of love. It was that simple. Jack had never looked at her like that because she and Jack weren’t in love!

Robert’s gaze held her own as the realization sunk in.

“Are you all right?” he asked.

“Yes,” Noelle said, smiling. And for the first time since Jack proposed, she was.

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