Love by the Reins: Christian Contemporary Romantic novella (Love's Sporting Chance) by Cate Nolan

Author:Cate Nolan
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Forget Me Not Romances, a division of Winged Publications
Published: 2015-11-16T06:00:00+00:00

Once the words were uttered, courage deserted her. As if all the stuffing was pulled from her like a rag doll, she turned and stumbled away.

*

David wasn't ready to let her go. He ran after her, catching her just before she reached the big barn door.

“No I can't change it, and I've borne the guilt of that choice for a long time. But I didn't make the choice alone.”

Willa gasped. “Are you going to blame a dead woman? That's cheap, David.”

“Not as cheap as you suggesting I would.” He glared at her. “I'm not blaming Susan. I’m blaming you, Willa.”

Her eyes widened in disbelief, but he rushed on. “I've carried one hundred percent of the blame all these years because I thought it was the right thing to do. Now I'm not so sure.”

“What does that mean?”

David held her gaze. “Are you sure you want me to answer that?

She clearly wasn’t, but she nodded anyway.

“You share in the blame, Willa.” He waited a beat before speaking, but then the words came out in a rush. “Don't look so surprised. After the accident you shut me out completely. I came by that hospital every day. I was like some stupid faithful dog waiting by your bedside until you woke up. I knew the name of every nurse on every shift.

I never left your side for three weeks unless the doctors were with you.”

He swallowed a breath and kept on. “Until the morning you woke up. I went to get coffee while the nurses checked you. When I got back, I was banned from your room.

I waited in the hallway for days until your mother begged me to stop making a scene. I wouldn't have left even then, but she said I was delaying your progress, preventing you from healing.”

David swiped at his eyes with his shirtsleeve. “To this day, more than ten years later, I still have no idea why you wouldn't see me. All these years I've put up with people looking down on me. When we got married, we had to leave town because Susan was so uncomfortable. We didn't want to raise a child in a town where she'd be judged even before she was born.”

“Yet you came back.”

That was her answer? David wanted to kick something. “I came back so Hailey could be with her grandmother. After Susan died, she had no family where we were.”

“There are babysitters. Daycare.”

David's jaw dropped. “What happened to you, Willa? What made you so bitter? I don't even recognize the person saying these things.”

She stared at him in a way that made him wonder if he'd sprouted horns.

“You really don't know what happened, do you?”

Now it was his turn to be confused. “That's what I'm trying to tell you. I don't know. Why wouldn't you see me? What happened to us, Willa?”

“David, I wasn't injured in an accident. Susan deliberately caused my injury. She cut my stirrup.”

David shook his head in disbelief. “No, she wouldn't—

Willa interrupted. “Yes, she would and she did.

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