Relinquish (Balm in Gilead Book 1) by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

That evening, Betsy met Dennis for coffee.

Their date on Friday had gone well—as well as could be expected. She wasn’t blown away by him in any way, but she liked him. They might not have a future, but she wanted to prove to herself that her life wasn’t on hold.

If she wanted to get married in the future, then she would have to go out with guys.

John might have kissed her on Thursday, but he’d made it clear it wouldn’t happen again. She wasn’t going to be foolish. She wasn’t going to daydream.

She wasn’t going to wait around with the futile hope that he’d decide he wanted her for real.

John might not want her, but Dennis did—at least enough to ask her out a second time. They met at a little coffee shop in Avon, and they had a good conversation about their families, pets, and favorite books.

They’d been sitting together for an hour and had fallen into a brief silence, both of them watch the cars drive by on the road outside—half of them pickup trucks with fishing equipment in the back.

“How long do you have off from your job?” Dennis asked.

“A month. It’s a kind of sabbatical,” she explained, knowing a lot of people raised their eyebrows at the length of a break. “The job we do is hard on you, and even if we have days off, you can’t really get away. So you need that time to refresh yourself and recover.”

“Of course. I wonder if a month is long enough.”

“Sometimes it’s not.”

“Are you looking forward to going back?”

Betsy hesitated because she wasn’t sure how to answer the question honestly. “In some ways I am. In others…”

“How long do you think you’ll do it?”

“I don’t know. I’m starting to think long-term. It might be time for a change.”

“Would you move here?”

“I don’t know. I might.”

He gave her a little smile. “Is it wrong that I hope you will?”

She blushed slightly and returned his smile. It was impossible not to be pleased that someone appreciated her so simply and openly as Dennis did. Maybe this was what it was like to be with a normal, simple guy.

John was a lot of things, but he definitely wasn’t simple.

“How did you get involved in that kind of work to begin with?” Dennis asked, after a minute.

“I don’t know, really. My college degree was in communication, and I wanted to work with an NGO or a ministry of some kind. So I looked around for positions, and I got a communication job with my organization. I did a few different jobs before I moved to my current team.”

“Did you ever think about getting a communication job with some sort of normal company?”

She shook her head. “I really didn’t. I just had in mind that I wanted to help people, and this was how I wanted to do it.”

“Do you think you could be happy helping people in a little town like this?”

It wasn’t a loaded question. She could see he genuinely wanted to know.

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