Sweet Return (40 page)
Authors: Anna Jeffrey
Applause broke out in the retail store. Joanna hadn’t even been aware that everyone in the beauty shop had come out and witnessed Dalton Parker’s sweet return.
They left Joanna’s Salon & Supplies together. Her heart would scarcely contain the utter joy she felt. There were many blanks that needed filling in, but they had the rest of their lives to do it.
Jay Huddleston’s words the night of Shari’s birthday party came back to her:
He always did what he wanted to. It was one of the things that made him different from the rest of us.
She knew this much. Dalton Parker had always been and still was a man who battled life every day to follow his own path. He didn’t need a woman in his life. He could go on without Joanna Walsh. But he had come back for her. Not because he had to have her, but because he
wanted
her. And that was the essence of who he was. It was enough.
Her immediate problem now was how to tell him she really didn’t want any more chickens.
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