Arthor: Karen Rose Smith
Sara Standish’s heart thudded with excitement, but with trepidation, too, as she climbed the porch steps to the house where she’d lived all her twenty years. Surely, Jake would change his mind about not having children once he heard her news. With their wedding two days away and their future stretching before them, wouldn’t he feel joy over a life they’d created together?
But then she remembered the pain in his voice, on his face, in his hands, the night he’d told her about his wife and child…how he’d lost them…how he never wanted to experience that devastation again. Her empathy had turned into kisses that turned into making love for the first time. He’d needed her and she’d needed him. But afterward, he’d vowed he wouldn’t make love to her again until their wedding night, until she was protected, until they were truly husband and wife. He was that type of man.