Heart of Grace (Return to Grace Trilogy #1) by Abigail Easton

Author:Abigail Easton [Easton, Abigail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Michael flipped the table cloth over the wooden picnic table and smoothed the corners. In the center he set a basket that Sophie and Angela had decorated with red, white and blue ribbons.

“Ten down, about a million more to go.” Sophie smiled and fanned herself with a stack of napkins, handing him another folded table cloth.

Michael took the cloth and went to the next table. “Think the clouds’ll get outta here before tonight?”

“Hope so.” Sophie looked up. “It’d be nice to ditch this humidity and we can’t have fireworks if it rains.”

A dozen other people hummed around them, doing everything from setting up the outdoor stage to arranging the stuffed animal prizes in the game booths. His sister had enlisted his services to help out with the Fourth of July festivities, without much consent from him. He didn’t mind, even if it was bad luck that he had gotten paired up with Sophie on this task.

Then again, maybe his luck wasn’t all that bad. She wore a pretty blue dress that matched her eyes. It was short with puffy white tufts over the shoulders. He leaned to smooth the next checkered cloth, and he couldn’t help but catch a glimpse of her toned legs and little white flip-flops. Of all there was to like about Sophie, those simple flip-flops were the most appealing.

She handed him another basket and moved on to the next table, her eyes refusing to meet his.

“So I hear you’re leaving after this,” she said quietly.

“Yeah, tomorrow. I have to get back home.”

“Michael,” she stopped working and raised her big blue eyes to him. “That girl I saw you with-”

“Nothing happened.”

Sophie’s lips curved into a smile, but there was no happiness in her eyes. She and Michael silently resumed their work, the awkwardness thicker than the humid air around them.

After a few moments, Sophie stopped working again. “Because if you did, it’s all right.”

“I didn’t sleep with her, and if I did, it wouldn’t have been all right, Sophie.”

She raised a shoulder to her ear. “Maybe not.”

He leaned over the table and set the heels of his hands on the edge of it. “You’re gonna make me say it out loud, aren’t you?”

She laughed. “You know you like me. You might as well admit it!”

“Fine.” Feigning irritation, Michael rounded his shoulders. “I like you, Sophie Alexander.”

“I knew it.” She winked and patted his cheek. “Are you going to kiss me, or do I have to wait another twenty years for that, too?”

“Twenty years?” He rounded the table and wrapped his arms around her. “You’ve been waiting for me that long?”

“Don’t get a big head,” she laughed, “I had a crush on you when I was thirteen. It’s not like I’ve been thinking of you kissing me all these years.”

“But you’re thinking of it now.” He grinned and kissed her cheek.

“Oh, yeah, I’m thinking of it now.”

“Do you have any idea how annoying you’ve been?” Michael kissed her other cheek, and then her nose.

“Yes, I’m annoying,” Sophie said, faking exasperation, “it’s a well-known fact here in Grace.

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