Chapter Seventeen
“It really is good to have you back, son.”
Reece sat back in the recliner in the Barretts’s living room. It felt normal, natural. He was certain he’d done this before. Many times.
The lights were dim. The memories breezing through his mind were easy and non-threatening. He remembered Christmas morning at the Barretts. He remembered Sunday dinners. But mostly, he remembered Beth.
“I admit I had fantasies of you and Beth getting together when you were younger,” said Pastor Barrett. “But you always seemed more like siblings than anything romantic.”
Reece frowned at the thought. His feelings for Beth were most certainly not brotherly. Though he wasn’t about to admit that to her father. Reece hoped that he and Beth would soon take their relationship to the next level.
He
