Take a Chance on Me

Chapter Twenty



In the dead of night, Mitch stared out the bedroom window. It had been a grueling day. He should be exhausted, but sleep eluded him. He dragged his fingers roughly through his hair and peered over his shoulder at the woman sleeping in his bed. The full moon streamed in, casting Maddie in its white, iridescent light. With her hair fanning out onto the pillow, she looked serene, so peaceful that it was hard to believe she’d cried in his arms until she’d had no more tears left.

Embracing the storm of her emotions that had been pent up since her father’s death had seemed to release something inside her. When she’d emerged on the other side, her expression had held a softness that hadn’t been there before. But her eyes held the biggest change: they’d been filled with a steely, determined certainty. Not only an elemental understanding of the path ahead of her, but a desire to walk it.

He’d known what needed to be done, what he could no longer ignore. He turned away from the image Maddie presented to stare once again out the window.

It was time to put hope away.