In addition to getting the job, he’d convinced them to talk to Joe Benson, his best friend and architect from Grants Pass, about a design. With the reputation of his family’s company in Grants Pass plus a little tour of a couple of his completed properties, it was a quick contract. He’d snagged the job out from under the local contractors by promising to deliver the finished home ahead of schedule. It would be their second home the people were obviously stinking rich. He was working on a new construction, a forty-five-hundred-square-foot house for a couple from Arizona. Since moving part of his family’s construction company to Virgin River, business had been good for Paul Haggerty. You need to have faith and think positive. But he said, “Liz, things usually work out the way they’re supposed to. You’ve gone through things some couples married twenty years haven’t gone through-and held it together. Burying a baby, going to war, being left behind. Jack smiled at her, but he was thinking, All I want in this world is for everything to work out for you two now. “Bigger than spending nights with him at his grandma’s house? Bigger than having a baby with him? Than promising I’ll love him forever? Come on, Jack. “I’ve never been anywhere,” she said quietly.
The shock must have shown on his face, because she smiled. That had never occurred to him-that Rick would spend his leave anywhere but Virgin River, and that Liz would travel to see him. When Rick gets his R & R, I want to meet him. “I’m saving every penny Aunt Connie pays me for helping in the store. Why not at least ask? If you can find a group in your area?” The point is, if it helps you, it might end up helping him. Nothing is going to make this easier, Jack thought. “Do you think that would make it easier for Rick?” she asked. If you think it could help you understand some things, you should give it a shot. You’re not the only girlfriend waiting for her guy to come home. Military spouses who get together to support each other. “I’m trying to read about it, but it’s scary. “Lizzie, men who serve, even when they’re not real close to the action, tend to bring home some issues with them. It’s like he’s having trouble writing things down, and he keeps repeating the same things over and over. He won’t tell me anything bad, but there’s a certain…something. What do you hear from him these days?” he asked, praying she wouldn’t ask him the same question. Well, I know some things-I know I want to be with Rick. Any idea what you’d like to be when you grow up?” If it’s any comfort, it never came easy to me, either. “But, I signed up for community college in the fall. I’d like to think I’m almost as smart as he is, even if I do have to work at it real hard. School was so easy for Ricky-he always got straight As without hardly trying. “But I have to admit, I like the feeling. “Are you happy about that?” he asked with a laugh.
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