Stone Dreaming Woman (36 page)
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Authors: Lael R Neill
“Oh, my! Richard, you’re actually famous! I’m so embarrassed I could die right here and now,” he murmured. “This is the worst faux pas of my entire life.”
“Well, if that’s the biggest social blunder you’ve ever made, you’re still in tall cotton. At least it was among friends. And now I think we should all just turn our backs while you take your foot out of your mouth.”
“That will take me all afternoon and a crowbar,” Shane responded with no small chagrin.
Jenny had a hand to her face, melodramatically stifling laughter. “Well, then, we’ll give you your privacy,” she said, unable to control her huge grin. “I’m going to walk them to the depot. I’ll be back after the train leaves.”
“You know where I’ll be,” he sighed. She moved as if to follow the three men out the door but turned and came back to his bedside. He set the book aside and reached toward her as she leaned over and touched her lips to his. He took her hands, and she had no choice but to sit next to him on the bed.
“Remember the night in Richard’s kitchen? Every night for the next eighty years?” he said quietly, his breath brushing her cheek.
“You’ll propose to me properly, then?”
“Need you ask?” he responded softly. “Eighty years?”
“Eighty years. I promise,” she replied, and kissed him again to seal the vow.
A word about the author...
After a long and varied work life she began as an English teacher and ended as a computer support technician, Lael Neill retired to a new career: becoming a full-time author. She began writing somewhere around age eight, studied Creative Writing under (or rather, worshiped at the feet of) Dr. H. L. Anshutz at Central Washington University, and has finally fulfilled her lifelong dream. A transplant from the Pacific Northwest, she lives on two wooded acres in rural Central Texas with deer, bunnies, armadillos, hawks, the occasional skunk, and a resident roadrunner. In between stints of writing, she decompresses with volunteer work, knitting, and music.
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