Unplanned Love (Savage Love)
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Authors: Jodi Woody
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By Jodi Woody
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Chapter Six
-A Snake in the Grass
Chapter Twelve
-Give Me a Break
Chapter Thirteen
-There’s No Place Like Home
Chapter Sixteen
-Immeasurable Error
Chapter Seventeen
-The Day After
Chapter Eighteen-
The Balm of Forgiveness
Chapter
Nineteen-Repairing the Breach
Song 4:9-
12 You have ravished my heart, My sister, my spouse; You have Ravished my heart with one look of your eyes, with one link of your necklace. How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! How much better than wine is your love, and the scent of your perfumes than all spices! Your lips, O my spouse, drip as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. NKJV
Chapter 1
Brotherly Love
“So you met your Prince Charming?” Bryce asked Seanna over his cell.
“It’s too soon to tell if he’s a prince, but he is
quite
charming,” said Seanna.
“How am I supposed to be the stereotypical big brother if you
’re so far away that I can’t check him out? You know…ask him what his intentions are and intimidate him as much as possible.”
“You’ll get to do the big brother thing at the wedding. Mom already said I could bring him and Daffyd said he can stay wit
h us. It’s not like we don’t have enough room, we have a whole island! When are you gonna get there?” asked Seanna.
“Well
…the wedding is the 16
th
, so I’ll probably roll in on the Saturday before. Daffyd will be a wreck and will need a calming influence,” answered Bryce.
“That’s what he ha
s Trisha for,” laughed Seanna. “I couldn’t get that much time off from class. So we’ll be coming in Wednesday night.”
“Well at least we’ll be somewhere warm
. I just figured they’d get married in either Montana or Wisconsin. A private island in Belize is a much better choice. Just think we get the whole island to ourselves for two weeks.”
“
Well Mom does love the ocean. You should bring someone too. What about that girl you told me about a couple of weeks ago?” Seanna asked.
“She was a little too high maintenance for me. Most of the girls I go to school wit
h are way too uptight,” he explained.
“What about the Church you go to there? No nice girls?”
“Yeah, a few. Most of them are already spoken for, and the rest have good reasons why they aren’t,” he laughed.
“
You make it sound like you’re God’s gift to women. You’re just too picky,” said Seanna.
“You bet I am! I’m in no hurry. So…I’m looking for that perfect one. You want Prince Charming and I want Cinderella,” he joked.
“Ok, so what are you looking for?” she asked.
“Someone who knows who she is, but not full of herself, doesn’t trowel on the makeup, but not a vegan hippy chic…I want someone who cares about others, loves God, loves her family, but not so much that she doesn’t want to hang out with mine. Definitely a virgin! She better be comfortable outdoors and know how to balance her checkbook…” he started.
“So according to you…
I’m
the perfect woman!” Seanna interrupted with a snort. “So all I have to do is find someone just like me!”
“Well, maybe
not so sassy,” laughed Bryce. “But she better not look like you!”
“What! Are you saying
I’m ugly?” she asked in shock.
“
Oh come on…you’re hot and you know it. But think about it Sea, if I had someone who acted like you
and
looked like you…well that would just be
weird
!” he replied.
“Yeah, I guess you’re right,” she giggled.
“I think I can manage finding my own Cinderella. You just make sure that your Prince Charming isn’t really some slimy toad,” he insisted.
“Very funny. Hey, I gotta go! You’ve distracted me and now I’m gonna be late for class. See ya Big Brother.”
“Yep, soon, Little Sis.”
Bryce shoved his cell back into his pocket and laughed. Seanna was something else. It was hard to believe that they had only known each other
less than two years. Seanna and her Mother, Samantha, had been on their way home to Wisconsin from a funeral in Washington, when their car broke down. Bryce’s Uncle had been on his way home from chemotherapy, in mountains of Montana, with his driver Leal and they had ended up bringing the stranded motorists home with them until the car could be fixed. Due to some creative planning by Bryce’s Uncle Daffyd, the girls had stayed the summer and became part of the family. Together they had all went through some hard times, including almost losing Daffyd to cancer, and a kidnapping.
Now they were a few weeks away from the big day. Daffyd had proposed to Samantha on Christmas morning and they were getting married the week of Valentines on a private Island in the Caribbean.
Bryce and Seanna had hit it off right away. Not in any romantic kind of way, but to each other, they were the siblings they had always wanted. Both of them grew up as single children. Seanna was an only child and was raised first by her unwed mother and then by her step Dad, Richard. Bryce had been adopted by Daffyd’s brother Gareth and his wife Rebecca when he was in grade school. When they had been killed in a plane crash Daffyd had become his guardian.
The worst part about that was that Daffyd was also ‘Savage’. A self absorbed rock star that had major issues with anxiety. Things went from bad to worse when he was diagnosed with cancer and
became a recluse. But that fated summer everything changed when Samantha and Seanna came into their lives. Bryce had someone to confide in with Seanna. They had spent every holiday and summer break together since. Seanna was attending the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, while Bryce was finishing up his third year of law at the University of California at Berkley. Though they were on separate sides of the country, they still managed to stay in constant touch through their cell phones and computers.
Bryce couldn’t help thinking about the conversation they had just had. Seanna was right though, he really did want someone like her. She was the first girl ever, who hadn’t tried to flirt and impress him. Actually, she was the first ever to
not
be impressed by
him
. By the time he was in high school, he already had an incessant pack of girls that followed him around giggling and flipping their hair. When he became the star quarterback and also class president his sophomore year, things only got worse. He tried dating but ended up disappointed every time. At the advice of his parents, he started telling everyone that he was just too busy for a girlfriend, which was totally true. He had decided to go to law school, so he needed to invest all of his time in his studies and sports to get a good scholarship.
Bryce’s parents were missionaries so money for college just couldn’t come from home.
His grandparents were living on a fixed income but had managed to save around five thousand dollars to go toward his future. Though his Uncle Daffyd had offered to pay his way, Bryce had refused. He just couldn’t take money that had been earned by glorifying the cliché of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. It didn’t matter that his Uncle Daffyd didn’t live that life himself. He still promoted it all…and had gotten filthy rich, literally. It had been a bone of contention between them until just recently.
S
o all during high school, Bryce never seriously dated. He did go to a few Proms’ with sisters of his friends, usually the ones who hadn’t been asked by anyone else. He always made sure they understood ahead of time that it was strictly as friends. Once he even took a girl that was stuck in a wheelchair due to a car wreck. Even though her condition was due to her own stupidity, by driving drunk, he still couldn’t help feeling sorry for her. He took her to her senior Prom when he was a junior and made sure that he talked to her about a lifestyle change. The fact that she continued drinking for the rest of the time he knew her didn’t stop him from trying.
After Bryce’s parents were killed
, his senior year, Bryce stayed with his grandparents until he graduated from high school with honors. When he got accepted into Berkley with a full scholarship he couldn’t help being a little suspicious. Sure enough, with a little digging, he found out that his uncle was behind it all. After much soul searching and some good advice from his grandparents, he decided to allow Daffyd to help. He started spending holidays split between his grandparents and Daffyd, the only family he had left. When Daffyd got sick, Bryce started staying most of the summer with him and got to Montana every chance that he could.
All that time was well spent. Between Daffyd’s assistant Trisha and her husband Leal, and then Seanna and Samantha’s influence, Daffyd had finally surre
ndered his life to God. Now they all felt like one big happy family. Their family unit included his Grandmother Lucille and his Grandfather Bryson, as well as Leal’s Grandma Sally. Now they were all making plans to spend a couple of weeks on a private island to celebrate the union. It felt like this would make it all official, they would be a real family. Bryce knew it was silly thinking that a wedding would make it more concrete, but he was happy about the way things had turned out.
And now Seanna is bringing someone new into the mix,
he thought.
Not sure how I feel about that one. He better be something special…otherwise I may have to pull the big brother stunt for real. She’s too special to end up with some jerk.
Chapter 2
Prince
Charming
Seanna checked her phone for messages as soon as she got out of her last class for the day. She had had a hard time concentrating all afternoon when Kevin hadn’t met her for lunch like as promised. After the second phone call and a text message she started to get worried. If she had a car she’d drive by his apartment and see if he was home. Not wanting to pay huge parking fees for having a car on campus, she had decided to just use public transit while at school. Times like these made her wish she’d taken Daffyd up on his offer of a small economical car. She hated taking advantage of his kindness though. Now there were still zero messages.
