Time for Grace by Kate Welsh

Author:Kate Welsh [Welsh, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2008-10-15T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Sarah stood staring up at Kip, her head in a whirl, taken from the heights to the depths in seconds. He’d kissed her. She’d thought in celebration but in a nanosecond her mind and senses had filled with feelings that were all about him and not about Grace at all. The strength of the longing she’d felt was like nothing she’d ever experienced before. She felt as if a flame had just sparked to life in a part of her she hadn’t even known existed. It was a part of her that Scott had never come close to touching.

And then just as she’d recovered from the shock of the effect of his warm lips on hers and his strong arms holding her so close, Kip had suddenly pushed her away as if she were poison. And the look in his eyes said he saw her as exactly that.

She looked away and sank into the chair next to her purse, tears burning at the back of her eyes. It was the same as that day in her art room. Once again Kip apparently wanted to be anywhere but near her. Had she misunderstood his meaning and responded in a way he hadn’t expected or wanted?

No matter.

Right then she wanted him gone as much as he apparently wanted to go. Sarah felt a blush start to heat her face and cast about on the floor next to her for her purse. She grabbed it, and started looking through it, searching for something—anything to divert attention from what had just happened between them. Meanwhile Kip turned away and walked to the windows.

Blessedly her hand fell on her pack of tissues. “Thanks again for waiting with me,” she managed to choke out as she made a production of sniffling and dabbing at tears. Rather than being from relief for Grace’s safe deliverance through surgery, they were tears of heartache. But she had to make him think it was only Grace on her mind. Her pride would consider nothing else.

Because, against all odds, she’d begun to fall in love with the knight who’d flown to her rescue time and time again. It hadn’t happened because of the rescues, though, but because of the genuinely kind, fascinating and attractive man that Kip had turned out to be. Again that small piece of her conversation during her interview with Jim came to mind. When she looked at Kip she felt none of the doubts about her feelings that had assailed her with Scott. The only doubt rested in his feelings for her.

“Waiting with you was no problem, Sarah,” Kip assured her. “Look, I’m sorry if I just gave you the wrong idea.”

Which meant her reaction to his kissing her was the problem. More exactly her feelings were the problem. No shock there at least. As she forced herself to look up at him, wearing a wry smile she’d pasted on her still tingling lips, Sarah hoped those drama classes in boarding school had taught her something.

“What wrong idea?” she tried to feign confusion, then said, “Goodness, Kip.

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