Love Inspired June 2018 Box Set 2 of 2 by Deb Kastner Allie Pleiter & Heidi McCahan

Author:Deb Kastner, Allie Pleiter & Heidi McCahan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488091063
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Jean sat at the kitchen table going over tomorrow’s schedule while she waited for the water to boil. Tomorrow’s bus excursion for the dozen Asheville wedding planners could be a major step forward for Matrimony Valley. Especially if North Carolina Nuptials magazine sent a photographer like they promised. It had been a flurry of work to send out all those press releases and email invitations on top of the final preparations for Violet’s wedding over Memorial Day weekend, but if even one of the twelve booked a wedding in the valley, the effort would pay for itself. Plus, affairs that already came with wedding planners in tow made her job that much easier.

She had Josh to thank for that particular idea—marketing to planners as well as to brides. It would feel good to let him know how well it had worked out.

If he called, that was.

She looked up from her papers to see Jonah playing with the tablet Josh had sent to him. Josh had never actually promised to video chat every day, but when he’d done so for the first three days, Jonah had come to expect it. That’s how little boys’ minds worked. All Jonah knew was that Big Fish hadn’t called in four days. He didn’t understand that his new friend Big Fish had a huge company to run.

Quite frankly, the connection between those two frightened her. The way Jonah looked at Josh, Jean could almost believe her son could somehow recognize his father. As if their DNA called to each other in a way only Jonah’s deaf ears could hear.

“What are you drawing?” she signed, nodding toward the digital illustration program Jonah had recently discovered. She’d found him bent over the tablet more often than not recently, his small pink tongue stuck out in serious concentration as his finger swiped over the surface.

She hardly needed to ask; Jonah drew the same thing over and over. Fish. Almost always in heartbreaking pairs of big fish and little fish, occasionally in startling family trios—a big, a medium and a small fish. He never named them, never said who the fish were, just drew fish. Was he sending her a deliberate message? Was his small brain working through whatever he’d picked up on between her and Josh? Or was he just a boy expressing his fascination for finned creatures?

Don’t you dare leave him hanging. Jean sent her silent plea to Josh across the miles. Don’t make me glad I held off letting him know who you are.

She hadn’t meant to turn this week into some sort of test, some unintentional hurdle Josh must jump to earn the right to call himself Jonah’s father. She’d never asked him for daily communication with Jonah or herself. She’d intentionally stayed away from making any demands on him at all. No, it was Josh’s own enthusiastic promises that had ignited all these dangerous hopes that now clanged around in her chest. Everything Josh did—or didn’t do—seemed heavy with too much meaning right now.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.