More Than a Tiara by Valerie Comer

Author:Valerie Comer [Comer, Valerie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
Goodreads: 32453485
Publisher: GreenWords Media
Published: 2016-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Liam squealed the whole way down the hill, nearly deafening Jase as the tube spun in circles. They slid to a stop mere feet away from the snowman. Oops. He’d need to make sure to steer it farther left next time. As though those doughnuts could be steered.

“Did you like that, buddy?”

“Yes!” shouted Liam, struggling to his feet. The poor kid was nearly as wide as he was tall in that padded snowsuit, only his bright red nose and sparkling eyes visible.

Sheltered from the hill and straying sleds, Wendy and Bob sat in lawn chairs beside a bonfire, a camp stove set up on a nearby table.

“Want to warm up, buddy?”

Liam shook his head and grabbed the towrope.

Jase waved at Marisa’s mom and turned to help his nephew pull the inner tube back up the hill. Once at the top, the boy coaxed his daddy onboard and headed down again. Jase scanned the area. Where was Marisa?

She went flying past him down the hill, two little kids between her knees on a long plastic sled.

Jase grinned and commandeered a nearby saucer. She was a hard one to catch. Always busy. Always making sure everyone was having a good time. The perfect hostess.

The perfect girlfriend.

Mr. Penhaven was right in one thing. Jase was, in fact, thirty. Definitely time he found the right woman, married her, and started a family. Two months ago it had been the farthest thing from his mind, but in the past two weeks, it was all he could think about.

He’d enjoyed every minute he’d been able to spend with Marisa since the night her mother had given him the chance to speak his mind. But she’d been busy, and so had he. They hadn’t had a lot of time to talk. Had she really forgiven him? Because it seemed a little like she still held him at arm’s length.

He grinned as trees and clumps of snow whizzed past. Not completely at arm’s length. Close enough to believe they might have a future together, but how? Where? She was a Montana girl. She’d created a life for herself here while he found himself longing to go back to New York. Maybe not the city itself, but the opportunities there.

He was a good photographer. He knew it. The modeling agencies knew it, too. The people of Helena didn’t want to pay the prices he could command back East. But it wasn’t all about the money. Since that day in front of the luggage carousel in JFK airport, he’d thought a lot about charity. He’d gone back to Kenya. Returned to hunt down Tammy and Greg and see what they were really doing with the street kids. He’d been sending money to Hope’s Promise every month since, never daring to ask if they had Marisa’s contact information. He didn’t want it to seem as though he’d been doing a good deed to regain her affection. No, he’d discovered need he’d never noticed before, and God had given him compassion.

Compassion. Marisa seemed to come by it naturally.

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