Her Unlikely Family. Missy Tippens

willing to help you.”

      “If you really wanted to help me, you’d talk Lisa into going home.”

      “Not until you prove to me you’ll be a good father to that love-starved girl.”

      Love-starved? A good father? It was enough to send him running the other direction.

      But he had just asked God for guidance. Maybe He was providing it through Josie.

      “Deal,” he said before he talked himself out of it.

      “Deal?”

      “Yes. You just promised to talk Lisa into going home with me if I learn to be a good…father.”

      She remained silent.

      “Josie?”

      She sighed. “Okay. I’ll do it.”

      He knew he’d accepted a deal she hadn’t meant to make. But despite the short time he’d known her, he was certain she would keep her word. Now he better understood why Lisa trusted Josie.

      Out of the blue, his sister’s face flashed though his mind, jarring him to think rationally. He’d just agreed to learn to be a guardian, a protector—a father—to his niece.

      He’d just agreed to the impossible.