Moving On : A collection of sweet romances (Broken Hearts Sweet Romance Series Book 3) by Zanna Mackenzie

Author:Zanna Mackenzie [Mackenzie, Zanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-03T23:00:00+00:00

Tears clouded her vision. Her throat tight with pain and longing, she got to her feet and resumed making coffee.

Ten minutes later, feeling more in control of heart and mind, she picked up the book again. Looking somewhat battered these days, it had nothing written on the front but, on the first page inside, were the words Helen’s Answers To Life: Use As Required.

Stacey smiled. As a confused teenager– was she any the wiser, or less confused, these days? – she had begged her gran to dip into the book and come up with the answer to many a dilemma. The book held poems, short stories, random thoughts, little rhyming spells and lots of photos. Pictures of her gran smiling at the camera, a beach ball in her hands. Pictures of a very young Stacey, dressed in a floral pinafore, red sandals on her feet. Pictures of Matt, grinning in a heap on the promenade where he’d fallen from his bike. Matt wielding a crab he’d caught off the pier. That was all in the past now though. She sighed. She should be getting a grip on her future, not dwelling on what had gone before.

At the back of the book, Stacey noticed pages and pages of her gran’s writing. A diary? She didn’t know this existed! Starting to read through the entries, she was surprised at the doubt and insecurity which riddled the words. Before, she’d never been allowed to read any of the book herself. Her gran had dipped into it, coming up with some wise words relating to whatever had been worrying Stacey at the time. She’d always thought of her gran as a confident, happy-go-lucky woman. Not like Stacey who had spent much of her childhood being bullied, never fitting in at school and fretting as she watched her parents go through a bitter divorce; her mother turning into a shell of her former self. She’d vowed never to let herself get into a situation like that.

Wary of getting her heart broken like her mother had, she’d pretty much kept the men in her life as brief flirtations, never anything serious. Any sense of isolation or loneliness had been ignored as she’d poured everything into setting up her business. Being cautious by nature, she’d ensured that she’d done everything by the book; seeking professional advice and enrolling on a business scheme so that she could call on the experts whenever she needed to.

The bakery had kept her so busy that she’d barely had time for men. Until two years ago when all of her relationship plans and intentions had dissolved in the face of love. Her heart had, finally, taken over from her head. She’d let her guard down and, oh, how good that had felt.

For a while.

Then, just before her gran had passed on, he’d proposed and presented her with a diamond ring placed delicately atop pink butter icing on a beautifully decorated cupcake. Part of her had wanted to scream, ‘yes!’ and leap into his arms.

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