by Lisa Plumley
Corinne reached him. “Pshaw, Jack! We only wanted to help.”
His other three sisters nodded, utterly unrepentant.
“So I figure I’ll have plenty of money to build my boardinghouse rooms and a finer meeting space for you besides.”
Grace leaped at the notion. “Jack! That’s wonderful.”
Her family crowded around, Adam and Fiona looking on with evident satisfaction. Marcus and Molly gazed in delight, and Daniel and Sarah nodded in certainty. Jack grinned at them all.
“Exactly how much money?” Grace nudged him, fairly rising on tiptoes in eagerness. “Enough to finance a mayoral campaign, I wonder? Because I have a few definite ideas about how things ought to be run in Morrow Creek, and there’s no reason that I can see why a woman shouldn’t run for public office.”
She beamed, positively alight with the idea.
“Oh, Grace,” Adam Crabtree warned. “That’s quite ambitious.”
“Yes, that’s too much,” her sisters echoed. “Even for you.”
But Grace remained perfectly sure, Jack could see—as sure as she’d ever been about their loving one another. So he only wrapped his arms around her and surrendered to the inevitable.
“If there’s not enough money for that now, there will be with my next designs,” he promised. “Anything for you.”
“Excellent!” Grace kissed him. “As it happens, I quite like this corsetry of yours, you know.” She gave a saucy wink. “I hear your scandalous designs make grown men weep with longing.”
“And love,” Jack corrected. “Never forget that.”
Then, united by that love, they joined hands and went to raise a toast—to rabble-rousing and stubbornness and rascally men who grunted when no words would do…and to planning the biggest, rowdiest wedding that Morrow Creek had ever seen.
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First published in Great Britain 2009
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© Lisa G. Plumley 2006
ISBN: 978 1 408 90844 0
