Welcome Back to Apple Grove by C. H. Admirand

Author:C. H. Admirand
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781402269059
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Patrick drove over the railroad tracks. “Which way?”

Grace snickered. “You already asked me that.”

He sat at the intersection and seriously considered rolling his eyes the way his sisters always did when they couldn’t believe he’d said something. “OK, and did you tell me left or right? I can’t remember.”

“Right. Sorry.”

“I like your family.”

Grace patted his hand. “You’ve said that before.”

“Grace…”

Her laughter filled the cab of his truck. “I couldn’t resist.”

For the first time in a long while, Pat had found a woman he could relax with and be himself—not some kind of firefighting hero the woman had made him out to be. Expectations could be a real pain in the ass.

“That’s where we go to church,” she said as they drove past Apple Grove Methodist Church.

Of course, church was the last thing on his mind at the moment. A nice drive in the country at the end of the day, some passionate necking, and maybe getting to second base—God help him, she had him thinking like a randy sixteen-year-old. But he wouldn’t push for more than Grace was ready to give.

“If we drive a little farther, you can see the railroad trestle bridge that Dan jumped off of saving Charlie and Tommy.”

She wasn’t on the same page as him yet, but she would be soon. “I do remember hearing that story, but your brother-in-law doesn’t like to talk about it.”

“So what did you think of them?”

Patrick’s mind was filled with thoughts of kissing the side of Grace’s neck and working his way to the hollow of her throat and wasn’t following the conversation. “Them who?”

“The two boys he rescued that day.”

When he didn’t say anything else, she added, “Charlie Doyle and Tommy Hawkins—you played soccer with them today.”

“Those college kids?”

“Uh-huh. They haven’t changed much, just filled out a little bit.”

“It’s the typical college diet—beer.”

“I didn’t drink much beer when I was in school. You can take this turn,” Grace told him, “and park by that stand of pine trees.”

The breeze picked up as he parked, carrying in the scent of sun-warmed pines with it. He breathed deeply. “Don’t have many of these back home in Brooklyn.” He got out and closed his door, walking around to open Grace’s for her.

“What kind of trees do you have?”

He held out his hand to help her down. She hesitated for a second before putting her hand in his. Unable to resist making her laugh, he said, “Big ones with green leaves in the summer that turn color and fall off when winter starts.”

Instead of the light laughter he expected to hear, Grace made that huffy sound his sister Grania made whenever she was about to correct him. “You don’t know what kind of trees they were?”

“Honestly? They could have been oak trees or maple trees for all I know. If you really want to know, I’ll text one of my sisters. They know that kind of stuff because my nephews are always asking questions like that.”

She hadn’t let go of his hand. He liked that.

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