Love Unspoken by Delilah Hunt

Author:Delilah Hunt [Hunt, Delilah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Adult, Multicultural, Contemporary, Westerns, Romance, erotic, Western, Multicultural & Interracial, Literature & Fiction
Amazon: B005MRAL1Y
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2011-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Noelle closed the door behind her, the smile she had carried on her face for hours, dying on her lips. The happiest she’d felt in years and she was unable to share it with anyone apart from the man she was falling head over heels in love with.

Instead of the admirable man she saw each and every time she looked at him, her family was bound to take notice of his rugged build, his lack of speech and lack of wealth. She released a sigh. Perhaps it didn’t matter in the long run. She’d already made up her mind to tell them about her relationship with Cole. If they wanted to miss out and judge him right off the bat then it was their loss and if they wished to go ahead and formally dismiss her from the family, then heartbreaking as it was, she would accept it.

There wasn’t anything to be done about her feelings for him. They were there. Delicate, yet indestructible threads woven into her heart and no one was going to take that away from her.

She entered the living room on the other side of the foyer. Her mother, seated on the sofa, looked up from a stack paperwork, a pair of reading glasses low on her nose. Noelle prepared herself for the sorrow that dwelled inside her mother’s eyes every time she looked at her. Teresa Williams had aged so much in the past couple of years. Noelle felt the familiar pang of guilt. She was the cause of it.

“I thought you said you didn’t feel well,” she asked, nodding toward the papers.

“I’m fine,” her mother answered, closing the folder. “This is nothing I can’t handle, although I understand why you’d assume so.”

Noelle frowned. Was the woman going to misinterpret her words? “I take it you don’t want my help?” She lifted her brows, a part of her hoping her service would be needed and the other praying for a refusal of help so she could hurry up and begin her apartment hunt online.

“That’s not what I meant, Noni.” Her faint southern accent from a childhood in Tennessee could be heard.

Noelle froze, realizing what her mother said. It was ages since her mother called her by the nickname she hated with a passion and missed hearing so much.

She felt like a little girl who wanted to sit beside her mother. Keeping her feet in place, Noelle remained beside the side table. She had to stay detached. A moment passed before she opened her mouth to ask about the paperwork again, but all that came out was, “I didn’t think you remembered that name.”

Stupid. Should have kept my mouth shut. Now her mother was going to know she’d had it on her mind.

Her mother pinched the bridge of her nose and smiled as if the memory pleased her as well. “I remember a lot of things. More than you realize.”

Noelle instantly regretted engaging the woman in conversation. She knew where it was headed. When was

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