Texas Hope: Sweetgrass Springs Stories (Texas Heroes Book 16) by Jean Brashear

Author:Jean Brashear [Brashear, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Texas
Publisher: Jean Brashear
Published: 2015-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

Sophia stared into the moonlight from her perch on the window seat in her bedroom.

Gordon didn’t blame her, Michael had said. He had always been such a fair man. Even when he was his angriest at her, he hadn’t been cruel. His implacable stance with Ian had nearly broken her, yes. The hours of her journey away from Sweetgrass and her life there were a dark, dark path her mind had shied away from, instinctively knowing that if she did anything else but focus on getting back to San Francisco, one mile, then the next, she would have done something desperate as despair overwhelmed her.

The Sophia of now couldn’t seem to fit in those shoes, couldn’t inhabit that desperately lonely and terrified mind. All her nerves had been on the outside, she’d felt, yet inside she’d been dead, so very dead for so long after she left.

If she’d let thoughts of either of them in, especially Ian, she would have taken her life, she’d been that distraught.

How deeply she’d buried everything. What the animal brain would do to survive.

For months, she knew, her family had worried over her. The only time she’d roused herself was to stop her father from going after Gordon to wrest Ian away from him. She’d come out of the wool blanket of depression only long enough to fight like a tigress for her boy’s welfare.

Ian, like his father, belonged on that land. Needed the roots of his ancestors.

To forestall her father had required dire threats. However deeply she mourned her child’s absence, she couldn’t compound what she’d done to him by tearing him away from the safety of Sweetgrass Springs, not even to save her own sanity.

So she’d roused herself to fight her father, in order to protect her child.

And the man she would never stop loving, however unsuited they were.

Barely had she frightened her father enough to make him back off. For more months than she could remember, she’d only existed, lost in the comforting blanket of limbo where she didn’t feel, didn’t want, didn’t smile. She barely ate. Slept a lifetime’s worth, even as she pretended that she cared whether she lived or died.

Then one day she’d met Allan, and he’d saved her life.

If only she could have loved him as he deserved from the very first.

Only when Michael was born had she truly come alive again. Her baby…

Baby. Her hand went to her throat. Ian was going to have a child. Once he felt the power of that love, would it only harden his heart against her?

He would never falter—she knew that about the boy, and Michael had confirmed it about the man. Ian would never lose himself, would never fail those he loved.

And he would never forgive her, she had to accept that. He was right not to.

She still couldn’t forgive herself for choosing to live over choosing to stay.

Even as she struggled to accept the newly-resurrected hope that hearing about Ian stirred, she understood that she had no right to his forgiveness.

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