Teresa Hill - Her Sister's Fiancé

Maybe Kate was as bad as her brother.

“Well…that sounds like a good plan,” Kate said, feeling guilty about it but happy. It sounded like a plan that would keep her sister in town for weeks at least, forever if Kate had anything to say about it.

“Still mad?” Ben asked, coming up behind Kate in the kitchen and putting his arms around her.

“Maybe.”

He kissed her cheek, then nuzzled her neck. “Come on. It wasn’t so bad, was it?”

“Only if she’s in love with him,” Kate said.

“In love with him?” Ben turned her around in his arms.

“Yes,” Kate said, letting him draw her against him, her head tucked against his chest. “Think about it. She’s in love with him, and he just let her leave after our wedding. Probably because his head was still spinning from everything that had happened and because he was still trying to make sense of it and failing miserably. Joe doesn’t change his mind easily. He doesn’t change his plans, either. It would take him some time to figure everything out, and she left so fast, thinking he didn’t care about her at all, that it was some crazy fluke.”

“Okay, but—”

“I don’t think it was a fluke to Kathie. I think she’s in love with him, and now look what’s happened. Her brother and her new brother-in-law went to the man she loves, who she thinks doesn’t love her, and threatened to break his jaw if he didn’t go see her and get her to come back to town.”

“But…if she’s in love with him, doesn’t she want to see him again?”

“Not if she thinks it’s hopeless and the only reason he came to get her is because he didn’t want his jaw broken into sixteen pieces. Then, it’s just humiliating to have to be here with him, thinking he couldn’t care less about her.”

“Oh. Okay. I get it now.”

Yes, now, he got it.

Poor Kathie.

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