Time to love P16

A Time to Love, A Quick Book Romance by Sky Taylor  - Page 16

“Sure we can,“ Joe eased out, Skyler looking at him and delivering a trembling smile.

Joe went out in the sifting snow to collect a few cedar branches, for the first time understanding the famous childhood poem - The Night Before Christmas - the part of the “snow on the breast of the new fallen snow giving a luster of midday to objects below“. It was so bright out that it appeared as if it were still daylight.

In a matter of minutes, the three of them had created a beautiful wreath. Joe wasted no time in hanging it on the front door and when he returned, Jenny held out her hand to him.

She had something in it, though Joe didn’t know what. And as she deposited it into his hand, she told him, “Mommy needed a ring. This will have to do for now, daddy. And we should get mommy the biggest and shiniest ring in the store, don‘t you think? All my friend‘s mommy's have really pretty rings.“

And then she kissed both him and Skyler and headed off to bed with her new best friend, a lifeless Miranda.

Joe glanced at the tiny rope of cedar that rested in his palm which Jenny had crafted with her two little hands and her wise little brain.

Skyler held her hand over her mouth, both touched and concerned.

“Joe, what are we going to tell her? And-and how?”

He immediately closed the distance between them. There were times in life for everything - and right now, it was a time to love.

Taking her hand and slipping the cedar-woven ring around her left ring finger, he told her, “That kiss that we just shared - I’ve never experienced anything in my life like that with another woman. And I assure you that in my day, I’ve had many opportunities to do such.”