Miracle on Chance Avenue by Jane Porter

Author:Jane Porter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2017-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Shocked, and furious, Sadie disembarked the wagon with the rest of the crowd, but she didn’t follow them into the Graff. Instead, she stepped off to the side, knowing Rory would, too.

She faced him, so upset she could barely think straight. “I don’t know what you think you’re doing—”

“I’m suggesting we marry. I’m suggesting you have that family you want so badly. I’m suggesting you consider giving your baby a real-life father instead of just some DNA.”

Her chin jerked up. “This is my life, and my future, not yours.”

“Maybe it should be.”

She stared at him as if she’d never seen him before. Nothing he was saying made sense. Nothing about him made sense. He was supposed to be this distant, detached, unattainable dream, and yet he’d arrived in town and immediately began intruding into every area of her life.

“Maybe you were never supposed to give me up,” he added. “Maybe you were supposed to give me a chance so we could make this work.”

“How? We don’t even know each other!”

“That’s just it. We start this thing over. We start at the beginning, not at the end.” He seemed to be ignoring her incredulous expression. “We’re going to spend time together while I’m here. It’s two weeks to Christmas—”

“I am not going to spend the next two weeks trying to cope with you. You are overwhelming in every respect.”

“You’re afraid of intimacy.”

“No.”

“Then you’re afraid of men.”

“I’m not afraid of men. I might be afraid of you, though.” She looked away and drew a deep breath, grateful now for his silence. The last thing she needed was for him to mock her. “You are... a lot. You are... big, and tough, and smart... physical. It’s a lot to deal with.”

“You’ve had serious relationships.”

“Yes, but none of those men have ever been like you.” She glanced back at him, expression rueful. “I’m pretty sure there isn’t anyone else like you.”

“I don’t know what that means.”

“It means that you could hurt me, and I don’t want to be hurt.”

“You could hurt me just as easily.”

“How? You’re the guy that isn’t going to settle down—”

“How do you know that?”

“Well, you’ve told me that.”

“No, I’ve never told you that.”

Her mouth opened, closed. She tried again. “But you said at the diner that you used to tell your girlfriends that you didn’t do forever. You said you’d warn them off in the beginning so they knew where they stood and wouldn’t get ideas.”

“Yes, but did I ever say it to you?”

She simply looked at him.

“No,” he answered for her. “I didn’t because those women weren’t right for me. But you very well could be.”

For a long moment she just looked at him and then she sighed heavily. “I don’t know what to say.”

“That’s okay. Maybe we just leave it alone for now and go inside and get warm. I don’t like to complain, but these old bones are beginning to ache a bit.”

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