Next Door Daddy by Clopton Debra

Author:Clopton, Debra [Clopton, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781426811777
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2008-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Gil had gone home for the afternoon with Max, and Nate noticed immediately on the trip home from church that Pollyanna was preoccupied. He’d slunk back to church after the Sunday-school hour and waited by the front door of the sanctuary for her and Gil. She’d looked upset when she’d spotted him, and he wondered if he’d upset her by not sticking around for the early hour of church. He’d tried, he really had…but the minute he’d pulled into that parking lot, he’d known he couldn’t do it. If she wanted to be upset with him, then so be it.

He’d stopped caring what everyone thought about him the day Kayla died. He sounded like a broken record. But, walking into the church was hard enough, much less walking into a stinking class for singles. A couples class was no easier. He’d known it, but Gil had wanted him to go with him so he’d tried.

It hadn’t worked.

And now Pollyanna was mad at him. She sat watching the pastures pass by outside her window, ignoring him. He didn’t blame her. He deserved to be shut out after running off like he had.

“I don’t know about you,” she said suddenly. “But I need a good long bike ride.”

“Excuse me?”

“I said I need a good long bike ride. I need something to cure this, this discontent that keeps overcoming me.”

Confused, he glanced at her. She wasn’t mad at him?

She waved a hand, the motion full of frustration. “I need the endorphins the exercise will set off. I just need a bike ride.” She tapped her foot impatiently, growing more agitated by the second. Maybe her attitude had nothing to do with him.

“It’s a good day for a bike ride,” he offered. He rode his horse when he was upset, so maybe Pollyanna’s bike did the same for her. Maybe he needed a bike ride, too.

She looked at him flatly, and he realized suddenly he should have been asking the obvious, giving her an opportunity to open up. “Is there something wrong?”

“No,” she snapped. “Why should there be something wrong? We just got out of church. We’re supposed to feel happy,” she ground out, her foot tapping quicker. He’d never seen her this way.

He turned into her driveway and headed slowly up the lane. Bogie hopped from the front porch and came barreling toward them. Nate had to slow done to make certain he didn’t run over the pup. When he had the truck securely parked, he lay an arm over the back of the seat and stared at Pollyanna. She’d made no move to exit the cab. Instead she stared out the windshield frowning.

“Look,” he said. “I’ve only known you for a few weeks, but I’m pretty sure I’m reading the signals right. Something is bugging you. Do you want to talk about it?”

“No,” she said flatly.

“Okay—” he started to say, but she cut him off, jumping out of the truck and slamming the door.

What was wrong with her? Nate couldn’t leave her like this.

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