She Loves Me In the Summer (Mrs. Someone) by Suzanne D. Williams

Author:Suzanne D. Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic comedy, contemporary romance, Christian fiction, short stories, clean & wholesome, inspirational romance, religious fiction, series
Publisher: Suzanne D. Williams
Published: 2017-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

Her impact with the ground dazed her for a moment, and Kaidence shut her eyes and willed the earth to stop spinning. Walton’s hands on her cheeks brought them back open. The instructor and her sky-diving partner gazed down as well.

“Kaidence?”

“I’m okay,” she mumbled. “My head will clear in a minute.”

Walton and her diving partner, a nice guy named Trey, placed a hand beneath either arm and guided her to her feet. She bobbled, leaning on Walton for support. “I should have paid more attention to the video,” she said.

They’d been given instructions on procedure, proper safety, and the type of equipment. Somewhere in that she’d heard a few sentences on the position for impact, but at the time, she’d been too frightened to retain it. For all her talk about spontaneity, she’d discovered a limit today to her willingness to do things.

And a need for someone else to hold the reins. As frightened as she’d been by the thought of jumping out of the plane, she’d concentrated mostly on the fact she’d be harnessed to someone who’d done this hundreds of times before. Once falling, however, her terrified scream had wiped even that from her head.

“We’ll call a medic and get you looked at,” the instructor said from somewhere behind.

Kaidence waved one hand outward. “Really, I’m fine. I’d just like to go home.”

Going home took an hour, however, between redressing and making the drive. Lying in bed, her hands folded coffin-like over her chest, Walton’s worried face rose into view.

Being truthful, he’d looked worried before they’d left, and she’d wondered why, but told herself it must be something at work. He hadn’t wanted to go in that morning and had returned acting strangely quiet.

“I shouldn’t have forced you to go,” he said.

Kaidence frowned. “You didn’t force me. I’m the one who said we’d be spontaneous, but I guess I have my limits.” A spontaneous marriage to a stranger was perfectly okay, but not deliberately falling from the sky, though both could potentially end in disaster.

“It was rather scary,” he replied. “We don’t have to anything like that again. We ... don’t have to do anything that you don’t want to.”

Her frown deepened. What did he mean by that? On the surface, it sounded like a harmless statement, except his face said it wasn’t. Was he caving? She hadn’t married a pansy. Granted, he probably hadn’t known that side of him existed, but it did, and that’s who she admired. She had only to find it again.

“Wally. Let’s go swimming,” she said.

“Swimming?”

Kaidence nodded. “I know someone who’ll let us borrow their pool.” She’d be calling on a favor, and her parents could find out ... though she was going to tell them about her marriage anyway ... just not now. That was the original purpose of all this.

“You know someone?” he asked, one eyebrow rising.

“Friend of a friend. I said I’d been many places.”

Yet standing at the edge of the community pool that evening, the indoor place all to themselves, she read on Walton’s face incredulousness and a lot of doubt.

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