The Rancher's Christmas Match. Brenda Minton
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Название: The Rancher's Christmas Match
Автор: Brenda Minton
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Вестерны
isbn: 9781474086455
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“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know.”
“And that’s why I’m telling you.” He removed his hand from her arm, slowly, as if just realizing he’d had ahold of her. As if he didn’t want to let go.
Something crazy was happening. It felt as if she was in a vortex, spinning ever so slowly, and he was in the middle of it with her. Looking into his eyes, she couldn’t catch her breath. He felt it, too. He had to. The intensity of his gaze as he searched her face made it clear. She had to swim her way to the surface and break free.
“I need to go,” she said. And then she glanced beyond him. “Allie!”
She pushed past him and ran to her daughter, catching her just as she fell. She should have been paying attention. She should have seen the distress in her daughter’s eyes. With trembling hands Rebecca eased Allie onto her side as the seizure shook her small body.
Isaac knelt next to her. “Jack is calling Carson,” he whispered.
“I don’t know why this is happening.” She shook her head. “That isn’t true, I do know. It’s the move. She had to leave her home, her school, her friends...”
“Don’t blame yourself. You made the move because you thought in the long run it would be the best thing for her.”
“Right. I thought my parents would...”
“What?”
She shook her head. “Nothing.”
Jack appeared, his eyes full of concern as he studied her now-silent daughter.
“Carson said to bring her to his office so he can do a thorough examination.”
Rebecca nodded and started to reach for her Allie. Isaac gently pushed her aside and lifted her daughter with care, holding her close. The tender look in his eyes almost undid Rebecca’s composure. It wasn’t fair that her child had to deal with this pain, with this illness.
As much as Rebecca knew it wasn’t her fault, her father’s words of accusation still taunted her, telling her that Allie suffered for her mother’s sins.
“She’s going to be okay,” Isaac assured her as they headed for the door.
She nodded, unable to speak for fear tears would begin to fall and never stop. She’d been alone for so long. Her aunt had been ill for several years before her death. And afterward it had been easier to make it just her and Allie against the world.
After only a day in Hope, she was beginning to see how wrong she’d been. They did need people in their lives. They needed more than the safety net of knowing her parents were nearby.
She didn’t need Isaac West, she just needed people. Maybe that would be her reason for staying in Hope. She and Allie would no longer be alone. They would have a community that surrounded them and cared for them.
But for some reason, that thought made her feel all the more lonely.
Monday morning, a full week after her arrival in Hope, Rebecca sat in a chair in the center of what would soon be her salon. She’d dropped Allie off at school, made a stop at the feed store, where she’d found a good selection of interior paints, and then she’d called her parents.
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