Tin Men (The Clay Lion # 2) by Amalie Jahn

Author:Amalie Jahn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: BERMLORD
Published: 2014-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Twenty minutes into our drive south on I-85, neither of us spoke. I knew Brooke was nervous about diverting from the original timeline in order to make the trip to South Carolina. Although we vowed not to spend time away from the people we were with the first time around, when we discovered my mother living so far away, she couldn’t stand the idea of being left behind. She changed her mind 15 times before deciding at last to join me, but in order to minimize the impact on the timeline, she only took two days off work. We also decided to reserve a rental car for her to drive back in the event my mother didn’t make an appearance by the time she needed to return home.

Even with meticulous planning, her furrowed brows revealed her anxiety, and after nearly half an hour of silence, the droning hum of the tires on the asphalt began to drive me insane.

“It’s going to be okay,” I said reassuringly, reaching over to tuck a tendril of hair behind her ear.

“I hope so,” she said without tearing her gaze from the sea of lodgepole pines out the window.

“You’ll see. Nothing catastrophic is going to happen because we aren’t where we were the first time around. You said yourself your parents have been working long hours. I’m pretty sure it was just the two of us these two days the last time. Have a little faith, huh?”

I studied her profile as she continued to stare out the window. There was a sadness etched in the lines of her face that had been there since the day I met her. Only after learning about her trips did I come to appreciate that the artist behind those lines was an unbelievably tragic series of events which included more heartache than any one person should have to endure. As the sun poured through the window, transforming her hair from chestnut to the color of a newly minted penny, it occurred to me that I’d never seen her looking more beautiful.

“I’m scared,” she said.

There was nothing I could say or do to convince her that our timeline would be unchanged when I returned to the present day. It was a testament to her love for me that she had even agreed to come along to find my mother. I knew how difficult it was for her to risk making changes after everything she’d been through in her own life, and I was suddenly overcome with pure adoration. I didn’t deserve her and I knew it.

“Brooke?”

She turned to face me, hearing the concern in my voice. “Yeah?”

“Marry me.”

For a moment, she was in total shock, as if a rug had been pulled from beneath her and she was now struggling to regain her footing. As I watched her recover, a series of emotions - disbelief, joy, and excitement, flitted like a movie projection across her face. I was discouraged to see the emotion she settled on was fear.

“Are you serious?” she cried.

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