Summer at the Lake by Bella Andre

Author:Bella Andre
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Oak Press, LLC
Published: 2021-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

Lakeside Stitch & Knit was the only store on Main Street with its lights still on at six thirty on a Monday night. As Calvin and Jordan walked up to the front door, he could see the women laughing together inside, toasting each other with mismatched wineglasses.

Sarah had kept herself from being part of a group of women for so long. He was glad, so damned glad, that she’d finally let them in.

He hadn’t wanted to wait this long before coming to find her, but he’d had to go home to pick something up. Something important.

The din of voices was so loud it reached all the way out to the sidewalk, and at first none of the women noticed them walking in. Christie saw them first. “Calvin? Jordan?”

Everyone turned to face them, their questioning, interested gazes eating up the situation. But Calvin only had eyes for Sarah.

Dorothy and Olive drew Jordan over to them, and then without even realizing he had moved across the room, he was down on one knee in front of Sarah.

“It’s not the deed to the carousel that has me here.” He needed her to understand that before he said anything else. “It’s you. Always you, sweetheart. Only you. And I swear that I would have been here without the deed. It was just that after the town hall meeting, I was hurt. Upset.”

“I’m so sorry, Calvin. If I could go back in time and change what I said, I would.”

He wanted to stop her, kiss her, tell her he loved her right then. But first he needed her to know how sorry he was for what he had done. Reaching for her hands, he said, “For ten years, I haven’t let anyone get close to me. Not until you came back to town and I couldn’t resist getting close with you again. But even as I was telling myself that I had faith in us to get it right this time, I was waiting for you to leave. I was looking at the condos as though they were a test that I was daring you to fail. But it wasn’t you failing. It was me.”

“You’ve never failed me,” she swore as she dropped to her knees to be face-to-face with him. “Never.”

“We both know I did. And we both know we’ll disappoint each other again, that over the next seventy years one of us is bound to mess up.” He cupped her face. “Remember when we were kids and we’d go out sailing and one of us would blow it and we’d end up in the lake?”

“Laughing,” she said softly, pressing her cheek into his palm. “We were always laughing.”

“It was an adventure. And it didn’t matter that we’d screwed up, because we knew we were just going to climb right back into that hull and keep sailing.” Her eyes were huge, beautiful, shining with tears that were on the verge of falling. “There’s no one else I’d rather take an adventure with, Sarah. No one else I’d rather go sailing off into the distance with.

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