“What do you think of this for rent?” She gave him a figure.
“Much less than it would be in Memphis or Nashville. I accept. I’ll drive back up this evening with the rest of my stuff and move in, if that’s all right,” he said.
“And I’ll feed you dinner.”
“Give me a rain check for tonight. I’ll be back much too late. How close to the stove can you stand?”
“Now, was that a nice thing to say?” Emma patted her belly and chuckled. “Close enough. In a sense we’re both invalids.”
The smile he gave her was real. Fleeting, but real.
“Your problem will disappear in a few months,” he said, still smiling. “Mine will last a good bit longer. My doctor says the knee will never be perfect. Maybe not, but I refuse to dodder into old age with a cane in my hand. I’d have to grow a beard and wear glasses with a little chain attaching them to my jacket so I don’t lose them. I don’t think so.”
“Do you need to go look at the house again?” Emma asked.
“I have to drive an hour and a half back to Memphis to pack.” He set the ferrule of his cane on the floor between his feet, then began to lever himself up.
Across the coffee table, Emma grabbed the arm of the sofa and began to hoist her heavy body to a standing position.
Halfway up, they caught sight of each other’s predicaments.
And fell back grinning at one another.
Five minutes later, as she waved him down her gravel driveway to the road in the Triumph Spitfire sports car he had owned as long as she had known him, she wondered how on earth to drag him back into life.
Well, it might be kicking and screaming, but she’d manage somehow. She owed it to Nina and his daughters. Nina would have wanted him to find someone else wonderful to spend the rest of his life with. Emma knew a dozen women who would jump at the chance.
Copyright © 2018 by Carolyn McSparren
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IMPRINT: Forever Romance
ISBN: 9781489272355
TITLE: COMING HOME TO YOU
First Australian Publication 2018
Copyright © 2018 S. M. Stelmack
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