Mail Order Melanie by Ginny Sterling

Author:Ginny Sterling [Sterling, Ginny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chance lay in his bed trying to ignore the sounds of Melanie moving about the house and talking to the baby. Seeing her in the rocker, smiling tenderly at the baby, and gazing up at him like she did made him feel alive for the first time in a month.

…and horribly guilty.

It was supposed to be his Beth rocking the baby.

This stranger was taking her place and it wasn’t fair to either of them. He felt robbed of the woman he’d cared for and wasn’t ready to befriend his new wife just yet. With a friendship there would be an underlying fondness and to him, it meant letting go of Beth, and he was scared to do so. Even now, he kept her things where they were in their room. It had been surreal to see her buried, but moving her things would mean she was truly gone.

He rejected the idea of her death – even while marrying Melanie.

That was a transaction.

Nothing more, nothing less.

He didn’t want to acknowledge how beautiful Melanie looked with Amelia in her arms and the oil lamp casting a glow on her features. Her dark braid cascaded over her shoulder stopping just below her breast. It felt like he was cheating on Beth’s memory.

Unflinchingly Melanie cared for his daughter regardless of the mess Amelia had made due to her tummy issues. Melanie didn’t care because that is what mothers did, he realized, thanking God for sending her to him.

Rolling over, he felt a tear slip from his eye into his hair as he realized that maybe this was God’s way of sending him someone that could handle the vacuum that losing Beth had created in his life – only acknowledging that idea meant circling back to the fact that his wife had died and he was truly alone with Amelia.

Chance buried his face in his pillow and wept.

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