Past Forward Volume 1 by Chautona Havig

Author:Chautona Havig
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: romance, christian fiction, simple living, homesteading

Chapter Twenty

As he shuffled through the day’s paperwork, Bill paused at the sight of Willow’s birth certificate. Renee Freeman must have meant for him to send it on to Willow. The date caught his eye just as he started to refold it. He glanced at his calendar. Thursday, July nineteenth. Monday was her birthday.

Bill’s thumb slid up and down on the touch screen, scrolling the numbers back and forth until he gave in and punched Chad’s quick dial button. Three weeks since their date—not that he was counting... He’d tried to arrange another afternoon in the city on the seventh, but she had plans with Chad for a fireworks display. The following Saturday, he’d suggested dinner out in Fairbury and a movie on his laptop at her house, but again, she wasn’t available. This, however…

Lost in thought again, he jumped at the sound of the officer’s voice. “Hey, Chad. Do you have a moment?”

Chad had considered not answering the call, but Bill needed to be encouraged to keep pursuing whatever interest he had in Willow. “What can I do for you?”

“How about a birthday party for Willow?”

Birthday—she hadn’t mentioned anything about that... “When is her birthday?”

“Monday. I’m taking her to dinner this Friday, so it’d have to be Saturday sometime.”

“Well if you’re coming on Friday anyway, why not just celebrate then? What does this have to do with me?” Chad really didn’t want to get involved in Bill and Willow’s relationship. Seeing light at the end of the proverbial tunnel had given him hope of freedom from the big brother role he’d adopted.

“I was thinking more of a party. Willow has never had a birthday party—well, not one with guests and presents, and crazy party games and such.”

“A party. For her birthday.”

“Is there a problem?”

What? You don’t know how to handle it if I don’t jump to agree to your requests? The thought gave him the catharsis necessary to ask what needed to be asked. “Where do you suggest we have this party?”

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