Candy Halliday – A Ranch Called Home (страница 11)

“Thanks for being so patient with him,” Sara said. “Ben’s nonstop questions can get rather annoying.”

“Not to me,” he said. “I’m glad he’s interested in life on the ranch.”

Sara didn’t answer.

He glanced over at her again. “And what about you? How are you holding up?”

His question caught her completely off guard.

“I’m fine,” Sara lied.

His expression said he didn’t believe her but he changed the subject.

“It’s a twelve-hour trip to Redstone. I thought we’d drive to just north of Albuquerque then stop for the night. That will put us halfway and break up the trip for Ben.”

Again, Sara was surprised by his insight. Keeping Ben strapped in his booster seat for twelve hours would have been a real challenge.

“I called ahead and made reservations,” he said. “Separate rooms, of course,” he added for clarity.

“Of course,” Sara was quick to answer.

The silence hung between them for a second.

Gabe turned his attention back to the highway.

Sara pretended to look out the window again.

But her thoughts kept going back to the conversation they’d had the previous evening. Gabe had assured her the only relationship he ever hoped to foster between them was a friendship. Knowing he had no personal interest in her should have been a huge relief.

But it wasn’t.

Not really.

Gabe’s firm declaration that he wasn’t interested in her personally had dragged up old feelings. Feelings of the way she’d always felt with each new foster family. They’d taken her in, sure. And they’d provided for her adequately. But not one of her foster families had ever been truly interested in her personally.

She’d often wondered if that’s why she’d been such an easy target for Billy. He had been the first person to ever seem genuinely interested in her. Of course, that, too, had been a lie. Just like the lie Billy had fed her about taking her with him when he left Houston.

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