“Despite the past,” Harry went on, “you have all welcomed me into your family and I must thank you for that.”
He paused, looking around at them, and in any other man she might have thought he was a little choked up. Not Harry, of course. He had probably just swallowed an olive the wrong way or something.
“Life is a strange thing,” he said quietly. “We make our choices, pick our course and usually have to live with the consequences. But sometimes we’re given the rare and precious chance to take a different path. When that happens, we often can discover what truly matters. Not money, power, land. Not grand houses. It’s this.”
He cleared his throat, the old coot, beaming at all of them but especially at his son, Jack, from whom he had spent so many years estranged.
“This,” he repeated. “Family. Friends. Love.”
“Don’t forget food,” Alex added.
“Hear, hear,” came a chorus around her.
Harry was right, she thought after grace had been eloquently offered by Angie’s husband and they all began to fill their plates with her delicious food.
Until Sam came into her world, she had been certain her course was set, that she was on her way to grabbing everything she needed.
She had convinced herself she had all she could ever want. Sam and Ethan had given her the chance to venture onto another path, one filled with laughter and joy and life.
Now she refused to have it any other way.
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ISBN: 9781460309780
CURRANT CREEK VALLEY
Copyright © 2013 by RaeAnne Thayne
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