Second Chance Bear by Raines Harmony

Author:Raines, Harmony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven – Joanna

He’d kissed her. Marcus Chance had kissed her by the side of the stream with the breeze rustling the trees above their heads.

When Joanna woke the next morning this was her first thought. Her second was that she should pinch herself to check that she hadn’t dreamed the whole thing.

But her lips still remembered the way his lips had moved against hers. And her body still recalled the excitement and desire that had bubbled up inside her just as the stream bubbled over the rocks and stones that lined its bed.

Bed. If he’d asked her last night, she’d have willingly gone to his bed. But he didn’t. Marcus said he didn’t want to rush her, that he knew her life was complicated and the last thing he wanted to do was add to those complications. She believed him.

He was a good man.

The thought that she didn’t deserve such a good man attempted to penetrate her good mood. She pushed it back down. Way back down. Where love was concerned it had nothing to do with who deserved it, or who had earned it. Love was natural, it could never be bought, it could never be forced.

“Is it time for breakfast?” Winnie’s sweet voice asked.

“I hope so, I’m starving,” Joanna admitted as she rolled over and reached out for her clothes.

The early morning air was chilly. It would be another hour or more before the sun rose high enough to warm the mountain. It was one thing she would have to get used to.

If she moved here to be with Marcus.

Was she being premature in planning her future? Yet when he spoke to her about love, he left her in no doubt this was a forever kind of love. As he covered her face and neck with butterfly kisses, he’d talked of fate and an unseen force…

Joanna’s eyes widened. What if this was how Marcus got laid?

Voices outside the tent shook her out of her momentary crisis of mistrust. Not all men were Julians.

“What’s going on out there?” Reece yawned widely as he crawled to the entrance of the tent and looked out.

“I can hear Kylie’s voice.” Joanna could also hear the panic in Kylie’s voice and the soothing tone of Chuck’s deep voice as he tried to reassure his wife.

“Should we go out?” Winnie asked as she dragged on her clothes.

“I’ll go see what’s wrong.” Joanna pulled a thick sweater on and squeezed out of the tent opening.

Kylie looked tearful, while Chuck hugged her close. “It’s okay, I’m sure she’s close by.”

“I walked down to the stream, and the boys have checked to see if she went for breakfast without us.” Kylie sniffed loudly.

“Hey, what’s going on?” Joanna asked, her concern growing. They must be talking about Tabitha, who was the only member of the family not here.

“When I woke up, Tabitha was gone.” Stu’s bottom lip trembled as he spoke. “I didn’t do anything, I swear.”

“No one said you did, honey,” Kylie told Stu. “But maybe she said something to you.

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