Mistletoe And Miracles by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Category
ISBN: 0373249411
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2008-02-19T23:00:00+00:00

“How about a field trip?”She nearly bumped her head on the inside of the oven when she heard his voice behind her. Sitting back on her knees, Laurel brushed a strand of hair from her eyes with the back of her wrist.

As she turned around to look at Trent, her eyes narrowed slightly. Had she heard him correctly?

“A field trip?”

Trent nodded as he came closer. The idea had hit him just as he’d wound up his session with Cody. “To an amusement park. The three of us. Cody needs to keep being immersed in normal settings.”

She was adorable, he thought, as unbidden memories reached out to him. Wearing jeans and an old shirt, her hair mussed, she looked very much the way she had when they had been together. He tried to ignore old feelings, not wanting them to get in the way of his judgment.

He cleared his throat. “I was thinking we’d go to Knott’s Berry Farm. The park’s relatively small and has a homier feel to it than some of the other parks. There’s a petting zoo for kids his age.”

She nodded. “I remember. I took Cody there for his fifth birthday.” She started to get up. Trent took her by the arm and helped her to her feet. “You think he’s ready for that?”

He wanted to experiment by placing the boy in a position where he could be part of a greater whole, yet feel that he had backup and support if he needed it, the crucial ingredients coming from his mother as well as from him.

“I do,” Trent told her, “especially if he’s been there before. Kids go to amusement parks all the time. Most natural thing in the world.”

She and Trent had gone to that particular park a number of times the summer they’d graduated from high school. It had been one of their favorite places. They’d arrive when the doors first opened and stay the entire day, often closing down the park. She came to know every inch of the park by heart. More than that, she could remember every location in the park where he’d kissed her.

It seemed like a million years ago now. Or someone else’s life.

As if reading her mind, Trent said, “You can invite someone else to come with us if you’d feel more comfortable.” And then, because she didn’t say anything, he added, “Your mom might want to come—or I can see if I can get mine to go with us.”

“I don’t need a crutch—”

“Didn’t mean to imply that you did.”

Laurel tossed her head. “I don’t need a chaperone, either.”

“I might want one,” he told her with a wink.

Trent cupped her face with his hand and, for a second, she thought he was going to kiss her. Her heart stood still. Common sense told her she had to move back, to stop him, but the trouble was, she wanted him to kiss her. Wanted to be forced to recapture what had been.

To her surprise, rather than kiss her, Trent took a deep breath, as if sniffing the air around her.

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