Angel Falls (Angel Falls Series, #1) by Babette de Jongh

Author:Babette de Jongh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Small Town Romance, second chance romance, Love Triangle, Deep-South, ballet
Publisher: Tranquil Dragonfly Press
Published: 2016-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

I woke Saturday morning with Amy’s arms and legs flung over me like a starfish on a rock. Sun shone through the bedroom window even though a steady rainfall pattered on the roof. The rich, chocolatey aroma of coffee called out to me. Easing myself out from under Amy, I padded into the kitchen. Ben stood at the counter, pouring coffee into a mug. Gilded by the rain-diffused light coming through the window over the sink, he belonged in a Maxfield Parrish painting.

After all these years, he still looked like the man I’d once fallen in love with.

It was I who had changed, and I wondered how much.

Lizzie sat at Ben’s feet, her expectant gaze turned toward him. She pawed at his jeans-clad leg.

“Yeah, yeah, dog. I see you.” He tore a chunk off the bagel he was eating and handed it to her.

I waited for the familiar feeling of guilty, reluctant attraction to grab me, but it didn’t. Instead, and maybe even more disturbing, my heart felt like it had been filled with warm honey. I realized, with a flash of intuition, how Melody must have felt every time Ben came home from a business trip.

As if she somehow stood here, inside my body, showing me what I could have if I wanted, I felt my heart expand with the comfort and security of a deep, abiding love that had endured years of changes and come back stronger with each one. “Ben, you’re back. When—”

“I got a late flight.” His voice was gravelly from lack of sleep. “Got back around three in the morning. Slept on the couch.”

Lizzie looked around at me and I scowled at her, stalling for time while I tried to absorb my strange shift in emotion. “Some watch dog you are.”

She grinned at me briefly, then waggled her little stub tail and returned her attention to Ben. I love you, but he has bagels.

Too bad life isn’t as simple for people.

Ben patted Lizzie on the head and gave her the last bite of his bagel. “She knows her people, don’t you, girl?” He glanced over at me, looking almost the same as he’d looked when we were in high school. Taller, more muscular, but with the same handsome face I’d once loved. I could easily see how it might have been if I’d taken the other path, if I’d made the choice to stay in Angel Falls with Ben.

I knew, without a doubt, that I could pick up the thread I’d dropped and move on as if the missing chunk in the middle had never happened. Was that what I wanted? I didn’t think so, not anymore. But Melody’s voice whispered in my ear—this was a sure thing, while my infatuation with Ian could still go either way. As could his infatuation with me.

“Here’s your coffee.” Ben handed me a cup already doctored with milk and sugar, exactly the way I liked it. “Do you want a bagel?”

I shook my head and took a

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