A Time to Keep (2006)
““Are you sure you want to go with Augustine?”
Moriah Harper’s hands tightened around the arms of a matching rocker as she stared at her bare feet resting on a cushioned footstool. “Yes, I’m sure, Shiloh.” She turned her head and glared at her firstborn. “Do you have a problem with that?”
His jawline muscles clenched angrily to halt the flow of expletives poised on the tip of his tongue. He loved and respected his mother, but her decision to attend the fund-raiser with a man who’d pursued her re...lentlessly since she’d become a widow annoyed him. His father hadn’t been buried a month when the man who owned the largest catfish farm in the region came calling.
“You’re a grown woman, Mama, and—”
“Oh, so you’ve noticed,” Moriah countered, interrupting him.
“Please don’t be catty, Mama. It’s not becoming,” he chided softly.
Her green eyes sent off glints of anger and annoyance that her children—Shiloh in particular—were meddling in her life. She’d lost her husband, the love of her life, but she was still alive.MoreLess
Moriah Harper’s hands tightened around the arms of a matching rocker as she stared at her bare feet resting on a cushioned footstool. “Yes, I’m sure, Shiloh.” She turned her head and glared at her firstborn. “Do you have a problem with that?”
His jawline muscles clenched angrily to halt the flow of expletives poised on the tip of his tongue. He loved and respected his mother, but her decision to attend the fund-raiser with a man who’d pursued her re...lentlessly since she’d become a widow annoyed him. His father hadn’t been buried a month when the man who owned the largest catfish farm in the region came calling.
“You’re a grown woman, Mama, and—”
“Oh, so you’ve noticed,” Moriah countered, interrupting him.
“Please don’t be catty, Mama. It’s not becoming,” he chided softly.
Her green eyes sent off glints of anger and annoyance that her children—Shiloh in particular—were meddling in her life. She’d lost her husband, the love of her life, but she was still alive.MoreLess
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