Love Inspired May 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2: The Rancher Takes a Bride\The Single Dad Finds a Wife\Bachelor to the Rescue by Brenda Minton

Author:Brenda Minton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Harlequin Love Inspired
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“That wasn’t the case at all,” she said, dismayed by the very idea.

Spring closed the door and indicated the swing on the front porch. “Would you like to sit?” she asked.

“No.”

He had yet to face her. He stood on the top step, hands shoved in his pockets, his back erect. Spring imagined he was holding on to his temper with everything he had in him. She knew if the tables were reversed, she’d be giving him more than a piece of her mind; she would be giving him the riot act with a righteous dose of Southern indignation.

Spring moved forward until she stood next to him.

“I’m sorry,” she said as she, too, stared into the distance. “It seemed like a good way to introduce you to some of the members of the historical society. What you saw at the planning commission meeting was, well, a more vocal faction, and things got out of hand.”

“At least Mrs. Lundsford was honest and up-front about where she stood.”

“I was angry,” she said. “When you walked into that room and I realized who you were and what your business was here, I was just...” She shook her head. “Ambushing you seemed irresistible. Gerald, Cecelia and I along with Roger and Carol Delaney and Johnson Gray are all historical society members as well as in the supper club. We...” She paused. “No, I thought we could show rather than tell you how much this property means not just to me and my family but to the history of Cedar Springs. Don’t blame them for a plan that was my idea.”

She chanced a glance in his direction to see how her words affected him.

If they had any type of impact, it didn’t show. She could read nothing in the features, which had grown hard right before her eyes.

“You made me the butt of the joke with your friends.”

“It wasn’t intended that way,” Spring said, feeling miserable about what she had done. “I won’t harbor you any ill will if your recommendation is for land the Darlings own, either outright or in trust.”

He snorted. “In trust? You mean you own even more of the town?”

Spring’s eyes narrowed. “Every bit of real estate that my family owns is in the public record.”

“I’m sure it is,” he said drily.

Spring’s pique at him was starting to take wing. “David, staging an intervention of sorts wasn’t one of my better ideas, but it was well intended,” she said, gathering steam for her argument. “There are a lot of people in Cedar Springs, in eastern North Carolina, who could care less about the history of this place. But there are a lot who do. We can’t just have placards or road markers put up at every site that has historic significance. All of the state would be one big ‘This happened here in 1789 or 1882 or 1952 or yesterday’ sign. But we can keep that history alive, the history of then and the history we’re making now.”

She went down a couple of steps and spread her hand out to indicate the acres of land surrounding the house.

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