A February Bride by Betsy St. Amant

Author:Betsy St. Amant
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Allie was everywhere.

It was like as soon as Marcus decided he couldn’t handle being around her and he should pull back, there she was. They’d managed to go for four months in the same small town without running into each other—he avoided her shop, she avoided his garage and his family’s house, he started attending a different church.

Now she was suddenly at the bank when he stopped to make a business deposit, at the post office when he went with Hannah to buy stamps for Zach’s tool shower invitation mail-out, at the grocery store when he pushed the cart for his mom to buy a ridiculous amount of beef jerky to use as centerpieces for the shower.

He was almost starting to hate tools.

Then one afternoon there she was sitting in his mom’s kitchen assisting Hannah with thank-you notes, surrounded by fresh-baked cookies and smiling at him sweeter than the chocolate chips themselves.

It didn’t help that February had also invaded Beaux Creek, ushering in a plethora of cut-out hearts and lace in store windows and dangling off end-cap displays like nothing he’d ever seen. It almost put Hannah’s party decorations to shame. The entire town had been bitten by the Valentine bug. The reminders of what could have been—should have been—were enough to drive a man insane.

He got in his truck after leaving the grocery store, the radio set to his favorite country station, and flinched at the lyrics to a popular song referencing how mid-February shouldn’t be so scary. He couldn’t agree more—as he quickly changed the dial. To hard rock. Since he hated the genre, at least Allie couldn’t linger there.

If he hadn’t seen Allie so much in town the past few weeks, he’d have been surprised to see her strolling into his garage at work that morning, looking cute in a turquoise sweater and jeans tucked into boots—too cute, in fact, to be parading around in front of his grease-stained, male-minded employees.

“Outside.” His voice was harsher than he meant it to be as he took her arm in his gloved hands and steered her back out the way she had come, careful to stay close behind her to shield her from view. He loved his team of workers but didn’t love the way they were eyeballing and elbowing.

Especially now that they knew Allie was single.

She protested and tried to look at him as he propelled her back toward her car in the nearly empty lot.

They finally stopped near her driver’s side, and he pulled off his work gloves and shoved them into the pockets of his coveralls. He’d been working on engines today in the bay, so he’d traded the jeans and company polo in for the working gear. Not that he cared how Allie thought he looked.

Though his biceps were definitely more defined in the polo.

“What’s wrong?” She shaded her eyes against the setting sun as she peered up at him.

“Nothing’s wrong.”

“Then what was all that about?” She shifted, attempting to gain her footing in her boots on the gravel ground.

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