Texas Tender by Leigh Greenwood

Author:Leigh Greenwood [Greenwood, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781428516991
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Published: 2011-07-27T19:24:33+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

If Idalou hadn’t been sitting down, her legs would have gone out from under her. Why would Junie Mae say that if it wasn’t Will’s baby? She told herself to stop leaping to conclusions, that she’d always been wrong about Will. She knew he was a sucker for a woman in trouble. Hadn’t he said he’d become sheriff so he’d have a legitimate reason to help her? Hadn’t he paid off her loan? Hadn’t he put up with Mara’s infatuation? Why was it so hard to believe that he would help Junie Mae in her time of need? Marry her, even if he wasn’t the father! The horrible image of Will marrying Junie Mae to save her reputation exploded in Idalou’s mind with the force of a shock wave. She’d seen Junie Mae kissing Will. Will had thought of Junie Mae right off when Idalou needed a place to stay. Now that she thought of it, Junie Mae looked at Will as if he were a knight on a big white horse. Having Will to turn to must have seemed like the answer to a prayer.

“What is he going to do?” Idalou gripped her hands together, hoping Junie Mae wouldn’t say the words Idalou dreaded to hear.

“I don’t know,” Junie Mae answered. “I told him about my situation the day you found me kissing him.” She blushed. “I shouldn’t have done that, but I was so desperate, his offering to help me seemed like the answer to my prayers.”

“Do you love him?” Idalou asked. She felt crushed, her secret hope of being with Will gone.

Junie Mae looked surprised. “Why would you think that? I hardly know him.”

“That didn’t stop you with Webb.” Idalou was mortified the moment the words were out of her mouth. Junie Mae was the one in trouble. The ending of Idalou’s romance with Webb didn’t begin to compare with having a baby out of wedlock.

“I didn’t know you were sweet on him until he’d asked me out a couple of times,” Junie Mae said. “I was new in town and didn’t know anybody. Besides, I was only seventeen and still so upset over my mother’s death, I would have gone out with almost anybody to have something else to think about.”

“I’m sorry,” Idalou said. “I shouldn’t have said anything.”

“I’m glad you did. I always wanted us to be friends, but I knew that Webb stood between us. He really didn’t like me the way he liked you. He just wanted someone to have fun with, and I was desperate for the same thing.”

Idalou didn’t know if Webb had ever really loved her, but it was time she stopped holding Junie Mae responsible for what he had done. She had to accept that her own actions had in all probability been a more important factor. Carl had warned her that her accusations would drive Webb away.

“You weren’t to blame for Webb losing interest in me. But that’s neither here nor there. You and your baby are all that’s important now.

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