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Drawing in a deep breath, Isa took hold of James’ hand. “Charles, Mary, Derek,” she nodded at them. “We have an announcement.”
Derek’s audible intake drew everybody’s attention. They looked back and forth between the obvious couple and Derek before noticing that he was grinning. “Congratulations!” he announced.
His acceptance of this news - news that Isa and James didn’t technically reveal - seemed to spur everybody else into action as they started chattering away with, and at, the new couple.
He never would have paired Isa with James. Even after her accident, they all started noticing she was acting more serious than she had been before the accident. His biggest concern was that James was too old for the nineteen-year-old. He had his own misgivings when Isa was chasing him and they had only a five-year age gap between them. There were only seven years between Isa and James.
Apparently, the Musgraves didn’t have an issue with the age difference when the new couple approached them with their news. Derek shrugged his shoulder in disbelief; if he ever had a daughter, he knew he would have issues with that big of an age difference.
The significance of their announcement didn’t escape him.
