Confidence Ch4
He told her how he had left his former life behind, and made a home for himself not far from there. He talked of how he yearned for a wife and child. For a place to call his own and a warm bed to come home to at the end of the day. He talked and she listened, and intently at that. She seemed enthralled with what he was saying. Everything he said sounded like a dream to her. She could imagine herself there with him. And it scared her.
"So what do ye think miss?" She opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out.
"Let me guess, yer either dreaming of what it could be like or yer wonderin' how many drinks I've had tonight. In either case let me tell ye that, I love ye Adreanna." She was shocked and overwhelmed, and she didn't know what to say. She'd been told years before that someone loved her but…, that memory was filled with so much pain. Tears overwhelmed her eyes again.
"Oh, don't cry miss. It's alright. Here tell ye what. You take some time to think it over. I'll be waiting for ye at me home. If ye choose to accept my offer ye can come by. He stood up and took a folded piece of paper out of his pocket and put it in her hand. He walked to the door.
"I'll leave a candle in the window for ye miss, so ye don't get lost. You have the directions." And with that he was gone.
He felt confident in what he was doing. Now all he had to do was wait. He made his way home and spent a good deal of time pacing about his parlor.
Adreanna sat on the bed, quiet shocked at what had transpired. She unfolded the note Jack had given to her.
"Turn left at the end of the block.
Second house on the right."
She already knew what her answer was. She collected herself and went back downstairs.