The Way Love Goes (Serendipitous Love Book 4) by Christina C Jones

Author:Christina C Jones [Jones, Christina C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Small Town & Rural Area, African American, Serendipitous Love Series
Publisher: Warm Hues Media
Published: 2015-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

Nine.

“So you said this was your parents’ house, right? The house you grew up in?”

Sean nodded, then took another swig from his beer. “Yeah. My father built this house, for him and my mother. Loved being so close to the water. It’s not quite the same as the South Pacific, but he always said it made him feel a little closer to home.”

He sat back, with a little smile on his face, presumably about his father.

After we came in from the lake, I’d scrubbed my hands as hard as I could without making them raw, ridding myself of the ickiness of worms and raw fish. While I was off doing that, and then joined him in the kitchen to help prepare sides for dinner, Sean had scaled, cleaned, and fileted the fish. He deep-fried them outside in a huge fryer to keep the smell out of the house, and we ate until we were full.

Now, we were just sitting outside as the sun set, bathing everything it touched in red-gold light as we talked. We were beside each other on the outdoor sofa, but I had my legs draped across his lap, and his fingers played in the fringes of my torn jeans, occasionally brushing my bare thigh. Sean had a beer, while I had a glass of wine.

“That’s right,” I said, nodding. “You said your dad was Samoan.”

He shook his head. “Grandfather, actually. My dad is Samoan and Fijian.”

“Fijian as in, like… from Fiji?!”

“Yeah, Samoa is basically next door neighbors with Fiji. Maybe I’ll take you home with me some day. That’s actually where my parents met. He was working, at a tourist resort. She came on vacation with her family, and according to them, it was love at first sight. He followed her back to the United States.”

“That’s so romantic.”

Sean smiled a little more. “Yeah, they loved the hell out of each other. I was only fourteen when she passed, but I remember that.”

I knew neither of Sean’s parents were alive anymore, but I didn’t realize he’d lost his mother so young. His father had only been gone for about a year, after being hit by a drunk driver, according to Charlie. She hadn’t said how his mother passed. “Can I… is it okay for me to ask what happened?”

“Cancer. She was sick for a long time, and then she went into remission, and then… it was like she was suddenly just gone.”

“I’m sorry,” I said, reaching up to stroke his face, but he gave kind of a half-shrug.

“It’s okay. It wasn’t for a while, for my father, or me but then it was. Me and him got closer. He took me to meet his family in Fiji and Samoa, took me to get tatted when I turned eighteen.”

I swept my fingers over the intricately inked design that went halfway down his arm, and then beyond where I could see, under his tee shirt. “So this has some special meaning?”

He nodded. “Keahi. Fire, flames.”

Now that he said it,

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