Brave Hearts by Maddy Barone

Author:Maddy Barone [Barone, Maddy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-01-16T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Over the next few weeks they caught a couple more Ranger games, toured Dealey Plaza, went to the Aquarium, and spent leisurely hours in front of her TV, knitting and talking. And kissing. Sweet, hot kisses that she would have been glad to turn into more. Dusty always put an end to the kissing when it threatened to get out of hand. If she hadn’t felt the physical evidence of his desire, she would have thought him uninterested in her.

Every day she fell more deeply in love with him. She and Inez were doing inventory in the store on a Thursday night after closing when she confided to her that she was falling in love with Dusty.

Her sister gave her an exuberant hug. “That’s wonderful, niña! I knew you two were made for each other the minute I saw him come into the store.”

“Well, I didn’t,” she said tartly, tapping her pen against her clipboard. “I don’t believe in love at first sight.”

Inez grinned. “It wasn’t love at first sight. I don’t think you liked him at all at first. What made you change your mind?”

Isabel thought about that. “He’s nice. No, it’s more than that.” She shook her head, still thinking of the way Dusty acted around her. “He treats me like a woman.”

Inez’s face changed subtly. “Have you two had se—”

“No!” Isabel felt her blush all the way up to the tips of her ears. “He says he wants to wait to see where we are going with this.”

“Ah. That’s why you love him. He cares more about you than his own—” Inez cleared her throat delicately. “Manly needs.”

Isabel giggled. “‘Manly needs’? Have you been reading those bodice ripper novels again?”

Inez lifted her nose with a superior air. “I find them very entertaining.” She dissolved into giggles. Sobering, she went on. “But you know what I mean. He cares for you too. Do you think he loves you?”

“I don’t know.” Isabel hoped he did. “It’s only been a month since we met.”

Inez gave her another hug, gentle and encouraging. “Almost six weeks, actually. When you meet the right person, it doesn’t need to take long. He learned to knit for you. That means something.”

“And he’s doing well with it. He finished the hat for his mom and now he’s working on the lacy cowl for Knitting 103.”

They spent many evenings on her couch, knitting side by side. It was during those one-on-one knitting lessons that the kissing threatened to get out of hand. He was trying to kill her. She’d never felt sorry for a hormone-driven teenaged boy before, but she was starting to.

When things got a little too heated, Dusty would either force himself to go home, or drag her out to do something she didn’t usually do, like tour the historic sites of Dallas. With him, it was easy to ignore any stares that came her way. She didn’t always need her cane, but she brought it on the excursions in case her leg got tired and she needed the extra help.

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