Love Inspired September 2021--Box Set 1 of 2 by Carrie Lighte

Author:Carrie Lighte
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

A grown man should not feel this way.

The week had flown by and it was festival day. A parade of carts was about to start down Main Street. Sawyer was grinning like a fool and practically fidgety with anticipation.

Him. Fidgety with anticipation. Sawyer had stopped trying to explain the new version of himself showing up over the past week. Time with Molly and Zack had changed him. In ways he was nowhere near ready to admit or even welcome.

Sawyer lost any hope of controlling the ridiculous surge of pride that overtook him as he watched Molly maneuver the golf-cart hippo into line at the top of Main Street. Nor could he tamp down the glow under his ribs at Zack’s mile-wide grin as he sat beside Molly in the cart. Or the elation at Molly’s delighted face, knowing he had helped to put that joy there.

Wyatt Walker walked up beside him and gave an appreciative nod. “Outstanding job there, Bradshaw. I think Zack will take first prize.”

Sawyer hadn’t dared to hope for that. “Molly’s just happy he actually took part.”

“I didn’t do half as well with the girls’ bikes.” He gestured to the wildly swaying heads of two flamingos somehow built on the bicycles of his twin stepdaughters.

“Oh, I don’t know. Pretty clever stuff there.” The girls were wearing pink sweat suits with some sort of black paper cone fitted like a curved flamingo beak to the front of their pink bicycle helmets.

Wyatt shook his head. “You’re showing me up, and I’m supposed to be the Carousel Man.”

Sawyer had to admit Walker’s bit-of-a-renegade appearance and his cutting wit didn’t exactly line up with the kind of carnival barker who would run a Carousel of Happiness. Lots of people in Wander Canyon weren’t quite what they seemed on first pass.

Then again, that could cut both ways. After all, he was more than he seemed, wasn’t he? There had been a lot of television footage of the squad car crash and the funeral of that mom and her boys. There was no escaping the inevitable: someone would connect the dots any day now, and he’d have to move on.

Trouble was, he was growing to like it here. He’d never planned on that happening. But he’d never planned anything that Molly Kane thrust into his life.

“You gave me the idea. It’s just a paint job, and mostly of Molly’s design at that.”

“Anyone give you grief that it’s a Mountain Vista golf cart?”

Sawyer had, in fact, been expecting someone to call him on that. Especially if Zack won some sort of prize. But it hadn’t happened...yet. “Not so far.”

“Well, steer clear of Norma Binton and maybe you’ll get away clean.” Wyatt pointed to a sour-looking old woman standing on the other side of the street. “Town grump. And the town gossip, which is a bad combination.”

What would Norma Binton do if she got wind of Sawyer’s role in that tragic accident? She’d be like all the others, not caring that the high-speed chase had been caused by a gang member.

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