Making Chase by lauren Dane

Author:lauren Dane [Dane, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, Man-woman relationships, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 9781599987590
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2008-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

Making Chase

“She never said. I’ve asked her about it but she wouldn’t talk about it. I knew it had to be sort of bad, but why didn’t she tell me?”

“Jesus man, have you not heard a thing we told you? She’s ashamed of it! She’s afraid you’ll judge her, the way people have judged us all our whole lives. Deal with it. How does one tell someone they’ve been abused anyway? Is it appropriate between courses at dinner? After a picnic? How should she have told you and how would you have reacted? She’s afraid of letting anyone in, because people hurt her or they ignore it when she’s hurting.” Nathan shook his head sadly.

“Good Lord,” Polly whispered, holding Edward’s hand.

“If you’re going to leave her over this, please do us, do her a favor and wait until after she’s recovered and home,” Beth said.

“You think I’d walk away from her because of this? God, what kind of man do you think I am? I love her. I wasn’t making that up. She’s…in the months we’ve been together, she’s become so much to me. I would never hurt her, especially not over something that wasn’t her fault.”

“We’ll be her shiny Christmas mornings,” Polly said quietly. “We’ve got room around our tree for fourteen more.”

Matt kissed his mother, fighting back tears. “Thanks, Momma. Why don’t you and Daddy go to see her while I get myself together.”

His parents nodded and headed down the hall. Matt stood and faced her siblings. “Thank you for trusting me to tell me this and for helping me to understand her better.”

“We trusted you with the story because you seem worthy of her.

Please let us be right.” Anne stood and hugged him.

“I love Tate with all that I am.”

His siblings and their wives surrounded him, hugging him.

Shane looked into his face. “You gonna be all right? We’ve got your back.”

“Yeah, but thanks. Thanks to all of you.”

“It’s gonna be hard to make charges stick if the mother won’t remember anything. If he says it was an accident they may not go www.samhainpublishing.com 111

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