Reconciled for Easter
Author: Noelle
Adams
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Book Description:
Abigail has been
separated from her husband for almost two years. After a marriage that brought
her only insecurity, she seeks a life now of peace and independence with their
six-year-old daughter. Thomas wants to put their marriage back together,
because he liked the wife he used to have, but she never wants to be that
person again.
She might need his help with their daughter
and start to enjoy his company again, but she just can't trust him with her
heart. Even when she discovers that her heart still wants him for a husband.
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Excerpt
She looked perfectly respectable for
dinner and the symphony for a work function—and nothing like the plain, shy
girl she used to be—so she grabbed her purse and headed to the living room.
“Ooh!” Mia squealed at her arrival.
“Mommy looks beautiful!”
“Thank you, sweetie.” Abigail ran
her hands down her skirt absently, feeling suddenly self-conscious at Thomas’s
steady gaze. His face showed no expression, but she knew he missed no detail of
her appearance.
“Just in time,” Thomas said,
glancing at his watch. “Seven o’clock. I didn’t know you took such long
showers.”
Abigail felt her cheeks burning, but
she managed not to react in any other way. There was absolutely no way Thomas
could know what she’d been thinking about in the shower. “Thanks for coming
over early to sit with Mia while I got ready,” she said, pleased when her voice
sounded natural.
“Of course.”
“I’m not sure when I’ll be back, but
it will be late since we’re going to Dalton.” She glanced outside and saw
headlights turning into the driveway of her little bungalow. “That’s Jim. He’s
picking me up, and then we’ll pick up the Seymours.”
“I see.” Thomas’s voice was strange,
but she didn’t know why.
“All right,” Abigail said in a rush,
feeling anxious and self-conscious and at loose ends. “You be good, Mia. Obey
your Daddy and go to bed when he says. Eight o’clock.” She said the words with
a certain significance to remind Thomas of the girl’s bedtime. “And you can
read until nine.”
“I know, Mommy.”
“There are snacks in the kitchen,”
Abigail went on. “And I’ll have my phone on vibrate the whole time, so just
call me any time if you need me.”
“I know, Abigail,” Thomas said, his
mouth twitching up a little.
“Okay.” She glanced down at herself
to make sure she had everything she needed. Then she told Mia, “I’ll give you
your goodnight kiss now, since you’ll be asleep when I get back.”
She leaned down to kiss Mia, and she
was about to leave when Mia said, “You didn’t give Baxter his kiss!”
Abigail hurried back over, flustered
by the way Thomas’s eyes never left her face. She kissed Baxter. “All right.
You be good and have fun.”
Then she kissed Mia again. “Mommy
loves you.”
“I love you, Mommy.”
Rushed and thoughtless, Abigail
moved to give Thomas a quick kiss on the lips in sequence. “I’ll be back after
midnight probably.”
With a last wave, she left the
living room. As she was reaching for the handle of the front door, she heard
Mia’s giggle rippling out from the other room.
She paused, wondering what had
prompted her daughter to laugh like that.
Then Abigail realized.
She’d just kissed Thomas. On the
lips. Without even thinking about it.
With a gasp, Abigail whirled around
and took a few steps back, with some sort of half-formed notion to try to
explain.
But she caught sight of Thomas and
Mia on the couch.
Mia was shaking with merriment, her
hands covering her mouth. And Thomas had one finger to his lips as he smiled at
his daughter, in the universal signal to keep quiet.
Overwhelmed with confusion, Abigail
fled.
It was no big deal. She’d just been
in a rush and hadn’t been thinking. Mia probably thought it was funny. She
couldn’t let it bother her now.
It had been a really long time since
kissing Thomas had been natural.
About the Author
Noelle handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different states and currently resides in Virginia, where she teaches English, reads any book she can get her hands on, and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.
She loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of her life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus on writing contemporary romances.
About the Author
Noelle handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different states and currently resides in Virginia, where she teaches English, reads any book she can get her hands on, and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.
She loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of her life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus on writing contemporary romances.
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