Moonlight, Motorcycles, and Bad Boys by Lynnette Austin

Author:Lynnette Austin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lynnette Austin

Chapter Fourteen

Katie Sara managed to avoid Reiner for four days. He’d left a couple messages on her machine, but she’d ignored them, telling herself she wasn’t being rude, just wise. But another meeting was inevitable. All wound-up like a jack-in-the-box, she waited for it.

She moseyed around her kitchen, trailed her fingers over the new red-and-white-print cushions she’d made for the windowseat. In two and a half weeks, she’d fallen madly in love with the house and couldn’t imagine being anywhere else.

She wanted to be here this fall. She wanted to see the oak tree out back dressed in fiery reds and oranges when the ghosts and goblins came trick-or-treating. Wanted to carve her jack-o’-lantern for the front stoop.

She looked forward to roasting a Thanksgiving turkey in this beautiful kitchen for herself and Chia and Rhonda and her girls. Maybe she’d even invite Marge and Philomena, Mrs. Jones and old Mr. Kennedy.

Then it would be time to string colored Christmas lights along the porch rail and place candles in the windows. Trim a tree. Lay holly on her mantle, hang a wreath on her door, and wrap the stair railing with beautiful white lights and some evergreens.

She couldn’t wait to see her peach tree bud in the spring.

Katie Sara had badly misjudged her future life in Paradox when she’d driven into town. She’d arrived assuming doors would close in her face because of her father. But they hadn’t. Paradoxians, with a few exceptions, had forgiven Ralph McMichaels for being human.

Reiner, though, was something she hadn’t figured into the equation. With him in town, happiness and peace of mind could be no more than a fantasy.

Did the past ever become the past? Could a person ever truly step into the future?

Not without doing penance. But she had, hadn’t she? Apparently not enough. Picking up her purse, she pulled the door shut and locked it behind her.

It was time to confess her sins. Only then could she be forgiven.

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