Adam's Promise
“She had just threaded her needle, when two shiny black boots and a pair of muscular legs in tawny brown breeches appeared in her line of vision. She glanced up at Adam, who was gazing uneasily down at her.
He gestured at the chair opposite hers. “May I?”
“Of course.”
He sat down and crossed one long leg over the other. The fire snapped and crackled, and the children burst into laughter about something.
“I must apologize again,” he said quietly, “for the way I treated you yesterday at the fort, ...and for the way things have turned out.”
Madeline poked her needle through the white lace cap on her knees. Oh, she didn’t want to have this conversation. She didn’t want to experience Adam Coates trying to be nice to her. She’d gotten along fine the way things were—first being accused of deceiving him, then enduring his silences and cool reticence. She’d been perfectly happy telling herself that she was lucky to have been spared a marriage to him. She didn’t want to go back to feeling otherwise.MoreLess
He gestured at the chair opposite hers. “May I?”
“Of course.”
He sat down and crossed one long leg over the other. The fire snapped and crackled, and the children burst into laughter about something.
“I must apologize again,” he said quietly, “for the way I treated you yesterday at the fort, ...and for the way things have turned out.”
Madeline poked her needle through the white lace cap on her knees. Oh, she didn’t want to have this conversation. She didn’t want to experience Adam Coates trying to be nice to her. She’d gotten along fine the way things were—first being accused of deceiving him, then enduring his silences and cool reticence. She’d been perfectly happy telling herself that she was lucky to have been spared a marriage to him. She didn’t want to go back to feeling otherwise.MoreLess
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