by Gold, Kristi
“I wasn’t about to give it up even after I had to give you up. I did give up on believing you’d wear it again.”
“This time I promise I won’t take it off and throw it at you.”
“I promise I won’t give you a reason to throw it,” he said, and after a slight hesitation added, “And now that we have that settled, will you marry me, Savannah Greer? It doesn’t have to be tomorrow or next month or even next year. Just say you’ll do it before we’re as old as Dad and Gracie.”
She couldn’t resist teasing him any more than she could resist him. “I don’t know, Sam. Tomorrow might be too soon, but next month doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. I think we’ve waited long enough, don’t you?”
“Yeah, about twelve years too long.”
“Should we return to our house and finalize the deal with a little bed boogie?”
He presented her with a beautiful, heartfelt smile and a somewhat sinful wink. “Sounds like a plan, but I have one more thing to tell you.”
For heaven’s sake. Once the man started talking, it was darn hard to shut him up. “As long as you hurry. As you know, patience isn’t my strongest suit.”
“It’s about the gulley.”
He wanted to discuss a drought-ridden creek bed? “Okay, I’ll take the bait. What about the gulley?”
“I’m going to dig a channel so it catches water when it rains.”
Far be it for her to question farming technique. “Because you want to irrigate the crops?”
“Because my dad once told me that a bridge isn’t any good without water under it. Since you’ve been back, I’ve learned he’s right.”
“So have I.”
Savannah slipped her arm around Sam’s waist and led him across that old beloved bridge, the place where it had all begun. The place where she’d recently discovered that if a person didn’t kill those feelings for an old love, they would remain dormant until one summer day years later, they broke through like spring grass, changing your perspective, disrupting your comfortable life—and granting something you never realized you’d wanted so badly, and thought to never have.
Samuel Jamison McBriar, her first lover—her first love—was now undeniably destined to be Savannah Greer’s last.
ISBN: 978-1-4592-1269-5
THE ONE SHE LEFT BEHIND
Copyright © 2011 by Kristi Goldberg
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