As Love Blooms by Lorna Seilstad

Author:Lorna Seilstad [Seilstad, Lorna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC042030, FIC042040, FIC027050, Sisters—Fiction
ISBN: 9781441223289
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

It was hard to live a lie.

A cold, irritating rain drizzled around Reese as he surveyed the garden he and Tessa were planting. It trickled down the back of his neck and beneath the collar of his shirt. He raised the collar of his jacket and tugged it closer, then glanced at Lafayette. The bloodhound plopped on his paws as if he’d lost patience with Reese.

Normally, Lafayette didn’t accompany him, but he’d seemed so restless after three days of rain that Reese thought a day in the park, even a rainy one, would do him good. Now he wasn’t so sure.

He wasn’t sure about a lot of things.

Since Tessa wouldn’t be coming today, he should go into the greenhouse and work, but he had some serious thinking to do, and he needed to do it here in his garden.

Mr. Nussbaumer had given him this area to create his garden, yet it bore little of his mark. All around it he could see bits of Tessa shining through, but his personality? It simply wasn’t there, and pretty soon Tessa was going to see that too. Would she say anything? If she did, how was he going to tell her that he hadn’t been truthful from the beginning?

That first day, she’d blown in like a breath of fresh air, and even before he saw the garden plans, he’d wanted to help her. But his offer to use her garden plans to impress his boss? That had been a lie too. After he viewed the plans, he knew he needed her creativity as much as she needed the chance for Mr. Nussbaumer to discover her talent.

“It made sense at the time.” He squatted and rubbed Lafayette’s head. “She got what she wanted, and I got what I needed. But now that I like Tessa, I don’t think she’ll be impressed to learn I’ve been using her to make up for my inadequacies. And if there’s any chance she could be the one, I’ll need that job in the conservatory to support a wife.”

Lafayette cocked his head at him.

“What? You think I’m jumping the gun? Well, you’re the only one I’ll admit this to, but I can’t get that girl out of my thoughts.” He stood. “Come on, boy. Let’s go somewhere and warm up. Maybe if we get busy, I can make sense of all this.”

Sure, hard work. His father always said it was all he was good for.

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