Take the Trophy and Run by Gail Sattler

Author:Gail Sattler [Sattler, Gail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian Fiction
ISBN: 9781433678288
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2012-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Amber struggled to keep her relief from showing. A wide range of expressions flittered across Stan’s face, but she couldn’t tell what he was thinking. It would be a relief if he scolded her for fainting like a seventeenth-century lady-in-waiting with her girdle on too tight, but he didn’t. Instead, Stan simply wanted to help her. Again. Still.

He was the best buddy a woman could ever have. Somewhere out there was a woman who would be perfect for him, someone who could love him the way he deserved to be loved, because he had what it took to love a woman back. One day he would meet such a woman. Amber might even like that woman. If she could stop herself from scratching the woman’s eyes out.

She cleared her throat. “I don’t know. Something light. What have you got?”

He glanced over his shoulder toward the kitchen, then back at her. “How about a grilled cheese sandwich, with three kinds of cheese and onions. On whole wheat bread.”

Fried in lots of butter, no doubt. Her stomach lurched, just thinking about it.

“When I said light, I meant something like an apple.”

“An apple isn’t supper. How about leftover spaghetti?”

“That sounds great.”

She followed him into the kitchen and sat at the table, watching as he spooned a massive portion onto a plate, drowned it with sauce, and sprinkled it liberally with grated parmesan cheese. “Here you go,” he said as he put it in the microwave and pushed the button.

“I hope you’re going to eat that with me. That’s enough for three people.”

He grinned, no doubt thinking she was kidding. “Don’t worry. I’m going to make a plate for myself too.”

The volume of his leftovers could feed her for three days while, for her, leftovers were a thing of the past. After contracting the orders for the flamingos for both the florist and the garden club’s banquet, she had to buy the materials to make them. Her wholesaler had offered a discount if she paid for everything at the time she placed the order, and since she had to make every penny count, it was a deal she couldn’t refuse. She couldn’t take the money off her lease, she’d just paid her insurance, her car was running on fumes when she couldn’t walk to where she needed to go, and she certainly had to make the current payment to Uncle Henry on time.

The only place left, the last place where she could get money, was her grocery budget. For the last few weeks she’d been living pretty much on macaroni and wieners, minus the wieners, or toast and peanut butter, and she’d gotten to the point of scraping the bottom of the jar.

When she’d gone out for lunch after church with Stan, she’d insisted on paying for her own burger and fries, and that had cut deeply into her grocery budget for the rest of the week.

She’d snuck a peek at the amount when Stan paid the bill for their extravagant dinner. The way

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