Lightning in a Bottle: A Small Town, Single Parent Romance (Hot Southern Nights) by Kathryn M. Hearst & Kayla Haranda

Author:Kathryn M. Hearst & Kayla Haranda [Hearst, Kathryn M. & Haranda, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wyndham House
Published: 2024-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Truly

Chance was getting impatient. It had been a week and still, nothing. Whatever music he was looking for obviously wasn’t here. The longer we searched, the more I worried it was somewhere in Macy’s office.

“What about this one?” Chance asked, laying a sheet of music in front of him. He picked up his pencil and started to transcribe the music, but I stopped him.

“Maybe we’re going about this wrong.” I pointed at the stack of pages we’d already gone through. “Any one of those could be as good, or better, than what Eli sent you.”

He opened his mouth, likely to argue.

Rather than listening to him tell me the ten second recording was his next Grammy-winning hit, I picked up his guitar and strummed the first few chords of the sheet music. When he didn’t stop me, I kept going until I’d played the whole thing. “It’s not great, but it has potential.”

His lips parted, Chance’s eyes danced between my face and my hands on his guitar.

“Sorry.” I laughed and handed it to him. “Forgot how weird you are about this thing.”

“I’m impressed. You’ve gotten good.” He took the guitar and strummed the song I’d played from memory.

“Thank you.”

All those years trying and failing to read music, and he’d never really needed to learn. He could play anything after hearing it one time.

“You should finish the song yourself.” I’d said the same thing a dozen times.

He stopped strumming. “That was Eli’s thing. Not mine.”

I dropped my eyes to the coffee table, unable to hold Chance’s gaze. I couldn’t pretend I wasn’t lying to him another minute. The lawsuit loomed between us like a heavy cloud. I hadn’t asked to slow things down between us because I needed time. I’d done it because the guilt of my secret fell like a cannon ball in my stomach.

No more. I’d rather lose him over the truth than because of words left unspoken.

“We need to talk.” I turned to face him.

His jaw tensed, and the lines in the corners of his eyes deepened. “That doesn’t sound good.”

I hadn’t thought this through. This conversation could have waited. No. I should have told him about the lawsuit the first day he rolled into town. “This isn’t easy for me to say.”

Before I could get the words out, Chance’s phone rang. He glanced at it, but didn’t make a move to answer it. “You were saying?”

“Yeah. Um. So, there’s something I need to tell you. I honestly can’t believe you don’t already know and maybe you do.” I needed to pace, but I was so nervous I felt like I might pass out.

He scrubbed his hands over his head. “What’s going on, Tru?”

I had to tell him. It was killing me that he didn’t know. I had no idea how he would react, or if he’d even speak to me again. Still, I couldn’t keep it to myself for another second, or I’d explode.

He’ll understand. Trust him.

Chance cupped my cheek and turned my face toward his. “You

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