Tender Mercies by Mary Manners

Author:Mary Manners
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: romance, inspirational romance, white rose publishing, romance novel, christian romance
Publisher: Mary Manners
Published: 2011-06-02T01:05:38.650802+00:00

8

She’s crying.

Cooper watched, mortified, through sliding glass doors that opened into the kitchen. Tears streamed down Lexi’s flushed cheeks as she stumbled over Max to set a cozy wooden kitchen table with three plates. He remembered the table well—he’d spent countless hours poring over homework with Lexi when it graced her parents’ kitchen. She bent down to pat the dog’s head, then dabbed her eyes with a wadded napkin.

I made her cry again. The thought turned his gut inside out.

“I finished the fence.” Andy loped over to stand beside him. Blades of grass blanketed his legs from ankle to knee and ear buds dangled from his shoulders. The heavy beat of a base drum filled the air. “I’ll get the sides of the driveway next. Aunt Lexi will like the way it looks, all trimmed and neat.”

“Sounds good. I’ll be finished here in ten.”

“Me, too.” He glanced over, noticed Lexi’s car in the drive. “When did she get home?”

“About twenty minutes ago. You were down by the fence, listening to your music, so you missed her. She’s inside making dinner.”

“Tacos, I hope. You gonna stay?”

“If she’ll let me.”

“Why wouldn’t she?”

Oh, the innocence of youth. Cooper dismissed the question and motioned across the yard instead. “The fence looks good. You do nice work.”

“Thanks. I filled all the holes Max made, too. Every time it storms, he temporarily goes insane and tries to dig his way under the fence if we’re not here to let him inside. It drives Aunt Lexi crazy.”

Cooper laughed at the vision of the spunky black lab digging to China. “Has he ever made a jailbreak?”

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