Beyond the Barre by Sarah Williams

Author:Sarah Williams [Williams, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Williams

Tom made sure not to touch her again as they spread out lucerne for Molly. As they worked, Harriet seemed oddly aloof, as though lost somewhere between the past and present.

What had happened to her? She was as skittish as a lost kitten.

She had been fine until he’d touched her. Until he was about to kiss her. Had he misread her feelings? This connection between them?

The rain continued pounding down, rivulets of water getting under his collar. Where before there had been no rain in sight, now there was no telling when it would stop.

“I’ll go see about moving the cottonseed feeder,” Tom said when they returned to the house. “It doesn’t look like this rain is easing.”

“Are you sure? It’s not too dangerous?” There was genuine concern in her eyes and voice.

“I’ll be fine. Besides, you don’t have much hay left and with all this rain the roads might get cut.”

She nodded. “Make sure you take a radio.”

“I’ve got one in the ute. My mobile’s charged too.” They reached his ute and he opened the door. “Stay inside. You don’t want to get sick.”

She returned his smile. “You stay safe. Call if you have any difficulty.”

“Righto,” he said, before climbing in, winding down the window, and leaning out to speak to her again. “I won’t be long.”

Then he started the engine and drove along the muddy road. Through the rear-vision mirror he saw Harriet sheltering at the front door, watching him drive away.

As the homestead grew smaller, he wondered about her past, then it hit him.

Her husband, Daniel. She’d already intimated that theirs hadn’t been a happy marriage. Had he hurt her? Had he done this to her—made her scared of another man’s touch?

He would have to earn her trust. Prove that he would never hurt her.

If it took the rest of his life, he would spend every day of it showing her how much he cared for her.

Because he did care.

He had never stopped.

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