A Time to Embrace (Love's Time Book 3) by Dora Hiers & Tori Kayson

Author:Dora Hiers & Tori Kayson [Hiers, Dora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grace Legacy Publishing LLC
Published: 2019-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

14

“So, do you want to tell me what happened back there?” Wilma came out of the bathroom, her hair wrapped in a towel, turban style, and perched on the edge of Sierra’s bed. A snow-white robe dwarfed her grandmother’s scrawny shoulders.

Sierra glanced up from the magazine she really wasn’t reading. Not when snippets of that kiss kept creeping onto the pages, blurring the words and the pictures until all she could see was Camdon and his tender expression.

“No.” With a sigh, she flipped the magazine closed and tossed it on the bed then planted an elbow on the downy mattress, cradling her chin in a palm.

Wilma’s peppery eyebrows spiked in silent anticipation. Her grandmother didn’t budge from her spot on the bed. Apparently, she intended to wait for an explanation.

“Fine.” She huffed and slid off the other side of the bed. In bare feet, she padded across the carpet to the window and lifted the heavy drape.

Cotton candy pink and purple stripes etched the otherwise blue sky. In the waning daylight, a resort employee headed to the fire pit area to prep it for the evening’s activities. Heaviness burdened her anxious heart, almost more than she could bear. Between possibly losing her job…losing Camdon.

“Camdon kissed me.”

A hand pressed against her shoulder, but she didn’t turn around. Didn’t want her grandmother to witness the turmoil mirrored from her eyes.

“Look at me, ladybug.” Wilma’s tone commanded obedience. Her grandmother hadn’t used that pet name in years.

A tear welled up and spilled over onto her cheek. She turned around, dipping her chin to her chest.

“I was wrong.”

Sierra studied her grandmother, at the regret lining her lips and furrowing her brow. “Wrong about what?”

“All these years...my resentment toward your grandfather spilling over onto you and Violet.”

“But I don’t understand. Grandpa deserted you, threw away twenty-five years of marriage, all because of a—”

“Yes. He did. And he was a jerk about it.” Wilma’s mouth stiffened into a thin line.

Her grandfather had not been secretive about his affair, flaunting his twenty-something mistress in front of the entire family.

Sierra shook her head, remembering the pain that erased all joy from her grandmother’s face when she waved the divorce papers in the air as if it was yesterday. Bitterness spewed from Wilma’s mouth for days and spanned into years afterward.

“But not all men are like that.” Wilma’s firm tone brought her back to the present.

“What about Steve? And my stepfather?”

“They’re at the bottom of the pickle barrel when it comes to the male species, too.” Her grandmother’s expression softened as she squeezed the soft flesh of Sierra’s arms. “I admit, ladybug, that you and I have not had good fortune when it comes to the men in our lives. But we shouldn’t let our experiences skew us from recognizing a good man. Like Camdon. There’s no comparison between him and the others. Am I right?”

Totally. Camdon was night and day different than Violet’s father or Sierra’s stepfather. That’s the only reason she’d allowed him into her life and invited him into their home.

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