Page 67 of Sing with Me

“Yes,” Ethan said immediately. “I’m planning on being in church every Sunday that you are.”

“How about Sundays when I’m not here?” Skye asked.

“Well…”

“Jesus is always here,” Skye said. “How about being in church whenever He is here?”

“Every single Sunday?” Ethan’s eyes widened.

“You know that God is not confined to a building, so if Jesus is in your heart, He’s always with you.” Skye stepped out of the row of seats.

When Diehl passed by her, he reached for her hand.

He didn’t care that they had only started to get to know each other. He didn’t care that they were in public.

Somewhere in his heart, he felt that he had to claim her now before all those other eligible bachelors asked her out.

But who was he to do so?

Was this the woman he should date? How would he know?

He had made multi-billion-dollar deals, negotiated projects with heads of states, and singlehandedly ran the fifty-billion-dollar Brooks Investments after Parker died, Brinley left the company, and Dad retired to the golf course.

Yet for the first time in his entire adult life, he was unsure about what to do.

Chapter Nineteen

In the middle of listening to Ethan tell his grandma about the various summer camps he’d be attending at Seaside Chapel, Diehl heard the doorbell ring. Moments later, Cara ushered into the large dining room none other than Siobhan, the twenty-something younger cousin of Jared Urquhart.

Diehl didn’t even bother to look over at Mom’s direction, knowing this was all a set-up.

The Rose Brooks Matchmaking Service was in full bloom again. This time, she must be thinking that Diehl would entertain someone fifteen years his junior. Someone else might, but to him, it was too late. His heart was taken.

Mom had done it before, a long time ago when Parker had been alive. After two years of matchmaking, Parker had found his Riley all by himself without any of the family’s help. At first, Mom was livid because Riley wasn’t her type of daughter-in-law and they didn’t see eye-to-eye on many things.

However, after Parker drowned in a fishing accident at sea in a bizarre squall, Riley had been Mom’s staunchest supporter and loyal friend. And Riley raised her two future Brooks heir and heiress well.

Speaking of whom, Diehl reminded himself to get the cousins together. Riley and the kids were on a train vacation for the entire summer, but perhaps they’d be able to meet in early August before Elisa and Ethan returned to school—

School.

Where, though?

Diehl wanted the kids to attend school in Atlanta, not in Hawaii. He wished that he hadn’t given Isobel’s parents an inch the year before during the grieving period. He had agreed—against his better judgment—to let the kids finish the school year in Hawaii. After all, they needed someone at home, and Diehl had been neck-deep in work.

Work that had run him ragged, and eventually caused him to burn out.

However, now that he’d spent a week off, he thought he could return to the office.

Sigh.

He forgot his agreement with Dad. No work for Diehl until August.

What was he going to do? Play piano for the next two months? Not substantial enough. Besides, Skye had told him that the trio wasn’t in the rotation to sing again at church until August.

Perhaps he could talk to Brinley about doing some volunteer work at her renovation office. With her baby coming, she could use some help at the helm. Yeah, he’d do that.

Somewhere in the middle of it all, the question raised about his children’s paternity bothered him. Isobel’s mother had been insistent on all the DNA tests.

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