I squeeze my eyes shut and take a deep gulp of air; I don’t want to hear this, though I’m not entirely surprised.“It’s too big of a risk to the baby. I can wait ‘til September. You’ll just have to wait, too.” “Think about it, though.If you find ...
That’s literally the thought running through my head as all five foot eleven inches of me wrestles with a wooden fence that’s collapsed and falling over a cliff edge. Dangling from a rope some thirty or forty feet below me is the man of my dreams—Eli Richardson, a tall, muscular, ha...
I shrug as we pull onto the highway, the heat in our rental car cranked to its highest setting.My suitcase bumps against my seat every time Alex changes lanes, gaining speed.“I tried.But it was really hard, you know?” “I don’t,” he confesses, “b...
he’d said, motioning to the peeling linoleum of Mom’s old floor. “We’ll pay the loan back when the house sells, don’t worry about it.” So, like so many things, I let him talk me out of my worries and just trusted him. He was right: a bidding war between two...
It’s been difficult to think this morning, and I’m just getting my thoughts together and finally calming down when I see Larisa walk through the door. I’d warned her that I am dressed in the pretty blue cocktail dress that Eli had gotten me, so I’m unsurprised to see her enter in a very cute lave...
The girl in the seat across from mine stares me down, but I make sure to keep my temper in check. Punching some waspy volunteer on my first day isn’t going to help my formerly squeaky-clean record. Okay, it wasn’t like my record was really all ...
Fiona and I exchange a look at breakfast while her dad prattles on.She smirks, and I hold a finger to my lips. Hayes notices.“You girls smell anything?I thought I heard you two talking downstairs at some point.”He gives me a smile, the same smir...