Walking Away (The Walking Together Series Book 2) by T. E. Killian

Author:T. E. Killian [Killian, T. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christ Centered Ministries
Published: 2015-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

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As they followed the hostess to their table at the restaurant, Kent couldn’t help but notice that several of the men seated at tables they passed, gave Grace admiring looks. That angered him at first, but when he thought about it, it made him proud to be with her. He’d always thought she was one of the prettiest girls around in high school and she had grown even lovelier since then.

Once they were seated and had given their drink order, Grace leaned forward and looked up into his eyes. “Now, don’t you think it’s your turn Kent?”

He didn’t pretend not to know what she meant but started right in.

“Well, after my first year of teaching at the high school, I married Shelly Peck. You remember her don’t you? She was in your class.”

Grace nodded but didn’t say anything. He was sure that she and Shelly hadn’t gotten along very well and Grace was being nice by not saying so.

“Well, anyway, we really never got along that well. But the biggest problem was that she wanted to leave Strawberry and I didn’t. So I’m sure you can imagine how many fights we got into over that.”

When Grace didn’t comment, he went on. “Well, another disagreement was that I wanted kids and Shelly didn’t. But we were both surprised when she got pregnant anyway.”

He grinned at her. “Then along came Michelle. So I thought I’d somehow managed to win.”

He didn’t really want to go on but he also knew that if he and Grace were ever to have any kind of a future together, she needed to know all of it.

He took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and was ready but the waitress came for their orders. When she left, he looked down at his hands and back up at Grace.

“We continued to argue a lot and finally, shortly after Michelle’s first birthday, she divorced me saying that there were too many things out there, away from Strawberry that she wanted to see and do and I was just holding her back from what she really wanted to do.”

He took a drink of his soda and continued. “Well, in some ways, the divorce was really working out better for me than being married to her. We didn’t fight as much anymore. Since Shelly didn’t seem to want Michelle around, I got to see Michelle just about whenever I wanted.”

He never liked talking about this part. After another drink of his soda, he went on, “Then when Michelle was two, I went over to Shelly’s apartment to pick Michelle up for the weekend and found an empty apartment. And I never saw her again, until Monday when Hal called me down to the police station to get her.”

Grace placed her hand on top of his on the table. “Oh Kent, that must have been terrible.”

She seemed to think for a moment. “But things appear to be working out quite well for you with Michelle now. She seems to be adjusting to living with you much better than I would have thought she would.

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