Only Love Heals A Heart: Steamy Historical Romance by Gray Jessica

Author:Gray, Jessica
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

By the time she reached the farm house the sun was already low on the horizon. It cast a golden light across the fields and for a moment she saw the yellow sheaves bowing their heavy heads in the breeze like it used to be all those years ago. She blinked and the image evaporated, the fields lay barren, except for the green patches Stan and Tadzio had planted in a Herculean effort to beat time.

The air was still warm, but it smelled of rain, cool nights and the end of summer. It was the season to pick blackberries, mushrooms, and hunt deer. She would have to ask Malgorzata how to salt meat to keep it for winter. If – if Stan would even be able to go hunting. All Poles had been ordered to turn in their weapons to the new authorities, but she knew that Stan kept a rifle hidden in the shed. Well, maybe not in the shed anymore, since Amos had taken up his quarters there.

Her mind drifted from the carpenter’s friendly person to Stan’s grumpy self. Others would probably tell her to have her head examined, but she preferred the boisterous, moody, brooding man with a wooden leg a hundred times over the quiet, kind and soft-spoken Amos. Just how should she encourage bull-headed Stan to take the first step like Malgorzata had suggested?

When she rounded the corner she all but bumped into Stan, whose resulting scowl could frighten a scarecrow.

“There you are! I was worried about you.”

“I was walking off my anger at you.” She didn’t want to mention her visit with Malgorzata for fear he might ask her what the two women had been talking about. She wouldn’t be able to lie to him, but she couldn’t well tell him what Tadzio’s mother had suggested, either.

“I guess I deserved that,” he said, his striking blue eyes settling on her. Unsettling her. The guilty look on his face didn’t take an ounce away from his attractiveness and she squirmed under his scrutinizing gaze.

“Probably,” she said, ducking her head and walking around him into the kitchen. But he followed her like a puppy and flopped onto one of the chairs, boring his stare into her back. It was unnerving.

“What do you want?” she finally snapped and turned around to glare at him. The man sitting across her looked like a drowned rat and the guilty look on his face endeared him even more to her.

“We need to talk,” he said and gestured at the chair opposite him. “Please?”

She nodded, smoothed her hands down her dress and walked over to where he sat with her heart racing. Would he tell her to leave? She didn’t want to leave. Despite his mood swings she couldn’t imagine being without him by her side.

Since she’d appeared on his doorsteps two months earlier, she’d grown accustomed to having him around. Talking to him. Joking with him. Laughing with him. He always made sure she had everything she needed and she hadn’t felt so safe in years like she did in his presence.

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