Chance Encounter (Take a Chance: Prequel)
“Hurt kittens and starving dogs and girls with big eyes and sad stories.
Daphne looked like a privileged daughter who’d always had a warm home, good food, decent clothes, respectability. Everything money could buy.
Everything he’d never had.
His hardscrabble life had made him tough though. This poor girl looked like one of those flowers he’d seen as a landscaper. Had to be cultivated in a green house. One whiff of strong wind or a few drops of rain and that delicate bloom would wither and die.
H...er hair was long and as blond as a California beach. Her skin was tanned and when she smiled, she looked like that model who was forever in Sports Illustrated.
Christie Brinkley.
But for the shadows in her eyes.
“So,” he said, “What’s a nice girl like you doing on a bus like this?”
She turned a little in her seat, so she faced him. Tucked her hair behind her ears. “You really want to know?”
“I do.”
She seemed to be searching for a place to begin. Finally she said, “I started college last year.MoreLess
Daphne looked like a privileged daughter who’d always had a warm home, good food, decent clothes, respectability. Everything money could buy.
Everything he’d never had.
His hardscrabble life had made him tough though. This poor girl looked like one of those flowers he’d seen as a landscaper. Had to be cultivated in a green house. One whiff of strong wind or a few drops of rain and that delicate bloom would wither and die.
H...er hair was long and as blond as a California beach. Her skin was tanned and when she smiled, she looked like that model who was forever in Sports Illustrated.
Christie Brinkley.
But for the shadows in her eyes.
“So,” he said, “What’s a nice girl like you doing on a bus like this?”
She turned a little in her seat, so she faced him. Tucked her hair behind her ears. “You really want to know?”
“I do.”
She seemed to be searching for a place to begin. Finally she said, “I started college last year.MoreLess
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