Sage and Sweetgrass by LoRee Peery

Author:LoRee Peery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian romance
ISBN: 978-1-61116-098-7
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Published: 2012-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

12

Life is tough. But with the grace of God, I’m tougher.

Lanae’s face felt swollen from tears that had fallen throughout the emotional day. Sage’s revelation started the waterworks all over again.

She now stood in silence, longing for her own familial hugs, while Sage bid his daughter and grandson goodnight.

Lezlie had also cried over her father’s family revelation. She wiped tears away when she squeezed Sage. They exchanged cheek kisses. Sage kept an arm over her shoulders.

Poor Sage. He’d surely had his limit of tearful women for the day. First Kate, then Lezlie, now she felt like a blubbering mess.

She chuckled when Sage ruffled Jaxson’s hair before pulling him into a side embrace. They prepared to leave.

The threesome filed through the door into the crisp, black night.

More tears threatened Lanae when the loneliness hit. She had no immediate family of her own, only Geneva and Moselle. Both of them had someone to love, and to love them in return.

Sage was so blessed. But did he realize it, or did he prefer to focus on his loss of Becca?

Through the window, Lanae could see Jaxson drop his chin and smooth the hair Sage had mussed. No one grinned or said anything flippant about the teen’s actions, a clear testimonial as to how each adult was caught up in his or her own thoughts.

Sage crossed the threshold to return inside then stepped back outside. “Watch out for deer, honey.”

Lanae lifted her crocheted poncho from the coat rack as Sage closed the door.

“Wait.” Sage took the wrap from her hands. “Stay a while, please?”

Why would he want her to stay?

“I could use some company.” He answered her question as though he’d read her mind.

Lanae had the impression Sage had held something back while revealing the literal skeleton-in-the-closet of the Tippin family. Would he tell her more family secrets?

“I’ll stay if you agree to show me the rest of your lovely home.”

She’d had a hard time reading Sage all evening. While sitting close to him on the sofa, she sensed him reaching out to her on some invisible level, yet his gaze had riveted on the image of his dead wife.

At the moment, in the quiet of her heart, lay an assurance that God wanted her and Sage to share an earthly destiny.

With obvious reluctance, he wanted her there.

She padded across the earth-toned area rug of the great room to gaze at the picture that graced the mantle shelf. Firelight brought golden cheeks to the woman in the photograph. “She’s lovely. Except for her eyes, Lezlie is the spitting image.”

With her peripheral vision, she saw Sage nod.

Judging by the way he’d stared at the picture while he talked about the Tippin family, Lanae guessed Sage opened up to Becca’s picture a lot.

Her physical reminders of Keith were all tucked away.

Sage spoke after a brief silence filled only by the swishing dishwasher. “First, I apologize for my bluntness earlier. A chunk of my heart is missing. Most of the time I think I’ll never be whole again.

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