Matchmaking with a Mission by B.J. Daniels

Author:B.J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

AT THE NURSING HOME on the edge of Whitehorse, Pearl Cavanaugh looked up to see Bridger Duvall come into her room.

She closed her eyes as she listened to him pull up a chair next to her wheelchair.

“How are you today, Pearl?” he asked, just as he had every morning for months.

She opened her eyes with a sigh, pretending she wasn’t glad to see him. While she used to dread his visits, she had to admit that she now looked forward to them and regretted the day when he would no longer come by.

That day would be when she told him the truth about his birth parents. His and Eve’s, since the two were fraternal twins.

“It’s a beautiful day out,” he said. “Wouldn’t you like to go outside?” He stood, waiting.

She gave a nod and he smiled down at her. “I thought you’d enjoy that.” He went around behind her to push the wheelchair down the hall.

All of the nurses knew him and said hello, along with the doctors. Pearl liked hearing them compliment him on the restaurant he’d opened with her granddaughter, Laci. Northern Lights was doing well, from what she’d heard. That pleased her.

She hadn’t been as pleased about Laci’s engagement to Bridger. She’d originally worried about Bridger’s motivations for getting close to her granddaughter. She’d prayed his reason wasn’t the same one as why he’d come to Whitehorse and why he visited Pearl’s nursing home every day.

Since then, though, she’d seen the two of them together. No two people had been so perfectly made for each other. Just the sight of them together made her smile. At least she thought she was smiling. Since the stroke, she couldn’t be sure.

“We set a wedding date,” Bridger said after circling the nursing home block and stopping to sneak her a flower from the ones growing in the beds out front.

She fingered the flower stem.

“We’re getting married next Christmas,” he said.

Her head came up, her eyes widening in surprise. She tried to form the words that were in her head, but nothing intelligible came out, to her growing frustration. At first not being able to speak had been a blessing in disguise. She couldn’t have told Bridger what he wanted even if she was so inclined—or if he caught her in a weak moment.

But now she would give anything to get her speech back.

“Why such a long engagement?” he asked as if he could understand her gibberish.

She nodded weakly.

“Laci has her heart set on you being there.” He knelt down in front of the wheelchair and took both her hands in his. “She wants you and her grandfather to be there to give her away. She has this dream that you’ll be able to walk down the aisle with your husband Titus.”

Tears welled in Pearl’s eyes. She swallowed around the lump in her throat and squeezed his hand. She and Titus had raised her two grandchildren after their father was killed and their mother disappeared.

“Thank you.” The words came out slowly, awkwardly, but he beamed at her progress.

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