Just In Time For Love (Stanton Falls #1) Read Online Free PDF Page A

me.”

 
    “I was completely
serious.  Even as a fourteen year old I knew what I wanted in life.”

 
    “Well, that was so long
ago.  You can’t possibly hold yourself to that statement, and even if you
did, I don’t think I deserve that kind of ...unconditional love.  And I have
a baby on top of that.”

 
    “Of course you deserve
that kind of love.  We all do.”

 
    Apparently her years in
college had affected her self-esteem.  He would take his time working on
that.  He was just happy that she was even talking to him again.

 
    “So tell me more about
Ashleigh.  I mean you have a beautiful baby.  I can’t imagine that it
was easy for you to get her father to let you just leave with her and move back
home.  Do you guys have something worked out?”

 
    “In fact we do.
 It’s called he’s a deadbeat that has never even met his daughter before.”

 
    “How is that possible?
 Does he know about her at all?”

 
    Emily’s answer was short
and very to the point.  She really didn’t like talking about him at all.
 

 
    “Of course he does.
 He’s a lowlife jerk.”

 
    Thinking of how sweet
that little girl was the last time he saw her, Aaron felt his anger starting to
rise.  He couldn’t imagine not being there for his child.  

 
    “No offense to you but
that really bothers me.  What kind of man doesn’t even want to hold his
own daughter?”

 
    “Like I said.  He’s
a jerk.  He even wanted me to abort her when I told him.  When I said
no, he told me that he didn’t even think she was his and that he didn’t want
anything else to do with me or her.  I guaranteed him she was his baby
because I had never been with anyone else before.  I figured we were
better off without him so I decided to go ahead and raise Ashleigh on my own.
 That was all before I came back here.  It’s a lot better with my
family supporting me.  It’s nice to have people around her that really
care for her wellbeing.”

 
    He found it strange to
be talking to her about a guy she had been intimate with but they had always
had a relationship built on being able to talk to each other.

 
    “Not just your family
Em.  You’ve got me.  You always have and I know that you have always
known that.”

 
    Emily felt her eyes
begin to well with tears.

 
    “I’m sorry for being so
emotional.  It’s just that everything my family has done and the things you
just said.  I don’t see how you all can feel this way about me.  It’s
so ironic.  This whole thing is ironic.  The man I had my child with
wants nothing to do with me and here you are begging me to take your heart.
 It should be the other way around.”

 
    She gazed into Aaron’s
kind blue eyes and felt supported and cared for like she hadn’t in years.
 

 
    “I owe you an apology
Aaron.  I never told you why I stopped talking to you all those years
ago.”

 
    “I did always wonder but
when you got back that was the last thing on my mind.  Now that you
mention it, I am curious to know what happened.”

 
    “Well I remember it just
like it was yesterday.  I had gotten to school and didn’t know anybody out
there.  It was so different from here where the neighbors are friends and
the principal of the school was your mother’s high school teacher.  It’s a
different world out there.”

 
    “You’re telling me.
 Try four years in the middle east.”

 
    “Ouch!  That makes
my story seem like a walk in the park.  But still it was hard for me.  You’d
think that college was meant to educate people and get them prepared for the
real world as adults.  It did a little of that but half of the time it was
about relationships, drinking, and parties.  There definitely wasn’t much
Christian influence on campus and the influence that was there had to compete
with every other religious viewpoint that was sprayed all over campus too.
 I’d call it the anti-Stanton Falls.  Now, my