Second Chance Summer by Allie Boniface

Author:Allie Boniface [Boniface, Allie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: small town romance, small town and rural fiction, suspense, second chance, clean and wholesome
Publisher: DFM Publishing
Published: 2020-04-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

The following morning, Hannah and Summer sat in the small but beautifully decorated Windows and Walls. Hannah flipped through a book of paint colors. “Mustard or sage for the small bathroom, do you think?” Behind them, the bells on the door tinkled as another customer walked in. Only ten thirty, and already a handful of shoppers filled the shop in Silver Valley.

“I‘m not sure,” Summer said. “I’m no good at this.”

“Of course you are. It’s hard when you’re not in the space you’re trying to design, that’s all. Let’s take a couple samples of each.” Within a matter of minutes, Hannah had selected four color swatches, plucked two catalogs from a rack in the corner, and purchased curtain rod finials in a design Summer would never have chosen but had to admit looked perfect in the sunlight.

Outside, they found a coffee shop down the block. “I really appreciate you helping me out,” Summer said as their steaming lattes arrived.

Hannah smiled. “It’s my pleasure. I love color and design, and making someplace cozy. Took me two years, but the farmhouse is almost the way I want it. I’ve bounced Dinah around so much, I want a place she can call home.”

“Does she take after you that way? With the design, I mean?”

“Well, she’s at the age where she thinks pink is the perfect complement for any décor, so it’s hard to tell. Maybe she’ll grow into it.”

“And Damian?” Summer wasn’t sure what she meant to ask.

“You know men. They’re much better with tools than with fabric swatches. Though sometimes he surprises me. He has an eye for detail that pops out every now and then. I suppose spending most of his life with just his mother has rubbed off.” She frowned. “Not in a bad way, I hope.”

Summer blew on her latte to cool it. She knew enough about family relationships not to prod further. She and Hannah had barely met. She had no right to wonder about Damian or his family or how they’d ended up in Whispering Pines.

Hannah sat back in her chair. “Did you know I had Damian when I was just nineteen?”

“Um, no. But wow.” Nineteen? Summer could barely remember that year in her own life, the bridge between eighteen and twenty, between the end of her life in Whispering Pines and the beginning of the rest of it. She’d barely managed to survive the first semester of college and focus on her studies. And heal from the accident, of course. That had made her grow up faster than a normal teenager. But she didn’t know anyone who’d become a parent that young.

Hannah propped her chin in one hand. “After high school, I fell in love with the guy working on the apartment house across the street. That’s where Damian gets his talent. Jimmy was the foreman of any project, the genius. He could do anything with his hands.” She blushed. “You know what I mean.”

Summer smiled. “I do.”

“We dated for almost a year before I got pregnant.

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