Tying the Knot by Debbie Macomber

Author:Debbie Macomber [Macomber, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2024-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

“Make this real?” Maggie echoed. “What do you mean?”

Glenn couldn’t believe the ideas that were racing at laser speed through his mind. Maggie would burst into peals of laughter, and he wouldn’t blame her. But even that wasn’t enough to turn the course of his thoughts. He had this compulsion, this urgency, to speak, as if something were driving him to say the words. “Steve and Janelle are going to make this marriage a good one.”

“Yes,” Maggie agreed. “I believe they will.”

The look she gave him was filled with questions. Surely she realized he hadn’t asked her onto the veranda to discuss Steve and Janelle. After Angie, Glenn hadn’t expected to feel this deep an emotion again. And so soon was another shock. Yet when he’d seen Maggie that first moment in the church, the impact had been so great it was as though someone had physically assaulted him. She was lovely, possessing a rare beauty that had escaped his notice when they were younger. No longer had he been standing witness to his best friend’s wedding, but he’d participated in a ceremony with a woman who could stand at his side for a lifetime. Maggie had felt it, too; he had seen it in her eyes. The identical emotion had moved her to tears.

“Glenn, you wanted to say something?” She coaxed him gently, her mind pleading with him to explain. He couldn’t possibly mean what she thought.

Remembering the look Maggie had given him when Steve and Janelle exchanged vows gave Glenn the courage to continue. “Marriage between friends is the best kind, don’t you think?”

“Yes,” she answered, unable to bring her voice above a husky whisper. “Friends generally know everything about each other, whether good or bad, and then still choose to remain friends.”

They stood for a breathless moment, transfixed, studying each other, hesitant and unsure. “I’d always believed,” Glenn murmured, his voice low and seductive, “that it would be impossible for me to share my life with anyone I didn’t know extremely well.”

“I agree.” Maggie’s mind was formulating impossible thoughts. Glenn was leading this conversation down meandering paths she’d never dreamed of traveling with him.

“We’re friends,” he offered next.

“Good friends,” she agreed, nodding.

“I know you as well as my own brothers.”

“We lived next door to each other for fifteen years,” she added, her heart increasing its tempo to a slow drumroll.

“I want a home and children.”

“I’ve always loved children.” There hadn’t been a time in her life when the pull was stronger toward a husband and family than it was that very moment.

“Maggie,” he said, taking a step toward her, but still not touching her, “you’ve become an extremely beautiful woman.”

Her lashes fluttered against her cheek as she lowered her gaze. Maggie didn’t think of herself as beautiful. For Glen to say this to her sent her heart racing. She hardly knew how to respond and finally managed a weak “Thank you.”

“Any man would be proud to have you for his wife.”

The sensations that raced through her were all too welcome and exciting.

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