The Coralee Chronicles by Suzanne D. Williams

Author:Suzanne D. Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult romance, dysfunctional family, family, teenage romance, clean & wholesome, juvenile fiction, juvenile romance, juvenile relationships, friendships, values & virtues, Christian fiction, short stories, collection, anthologies, contemporary romance, inspirational romance, coming of age, romantic comedy
Publisher: Suzanne D. Williams
Published: 2018-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

Strange, but his grandpa’s call seemed to have come at an opportune time because, wherever Coralee had been going with that conversation about the old lady at the nursing home, he wasn’t sure he wanted to find out. Then again, it was curious she’d bring anything like that up. They never talked about intimacy out of respect for each other. Also, the fact it made conversation hard. That made her broaching the subject huge in his mind, but also left room for a lot of interpretation. Was she being positive or negative about it? And where exactly did he stand?

Roman sighed and eyed her while he backed away. Leaving her with Manuela wasn’t his best idea, but then, he didn’t have a choice really. She was right about his grandpa. He could be somewhere else by the time he arrived, and it wasn’t like Coralee would kill her.

Squeezing the sides of his head between his thumb and ring finger, Roman staved off a headache. Between Coralee, Manuela, and buying a house, he wasn’t sure how much more pressure he could take. Perhaps talking to his grandpa, always a voice of reason in his life, was a good idea. He trusted no one’s advice more than him.

Roman made his way across the sun-heated asphalt of the nursing home, pausing briefly in the lobby to enjoy the rush of air-conditioning. He then made a right and wound his way around the corridor and down Palm to his grandpa’s room.

He found him seated at a small table beneath the window. A low-growing bush pressed leaves against the glass. “Grandpa?”

“Roman! Come sit.” His grandpa waved him over. Dropping one hand to a place in his lap, he rubbed his palm back and forth on his slacks.

Roman took a seat opposite and reached out and patted his grandpa’s shoulder.

His grandpa smiled then got right to the point. “That girl needs a ring.”

Roman sat back, sliding his hand along the table’s cool surface. “What ... do you mean?”

His grandpa tilted his head and with aged fingers pushed his glasses back further on his nose. “Don’t tell me you haven’t thought about it because she has.”

She had? She’d never indicated it to him. In fact, all their troubles lately had been because he’d avoided it.

“Saw her talking to that nurse guy more than once. You better snap her up, or she’ll move on.”

Coralee ... talking to another man? She hadn’t mentioned that either. But what if ... what if that was the problem between them? What if she’d thought he was going to propose, but because he hadn’t ... Roman gulped. “Grandpa, how did you know when it was time to ask?”

His grandpa chuckled, lights sparkling in his eyes. “For one thing, I couldn’t stand to be apart from her. I’d take her home, but leaving her there sucked the life right out of me.”

Hadn’t he felt that way? Like he wanted her around all the time?

“Weren’t you afraid? I mean ... marriage is a huge step and what if .

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