A Home for Summer: A sweet, small town, marriage of convenience romance (Tall Dark and Driven Book 4) by Barbara DeLeo

Author:Barbara DeLeo [DeLeo, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbara Deleo Books
Published: 2020-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

He didn’t think twice about going after her. Now he was here—outside her window, hands thrust in his pockets staring at the new pane of glass—Costa wasn’t sure what to say. The spring dusk cast orange shadows making the glass flame, and all he wanted was to hold Summer, comfort her...

How could he not tell her the truth now? That her mother was the most influential person in his life, that even though it sounded like a cliché, she had literally made him who he was today. It was inconceivable that Summer had such a distorted view of reality. As much as it pained him, his duty to keep Caroline’s secrets was now overridden by his duty to tell Summer the truth. To ease her pain, to help her understand.

He thought about Caroline’s last email to him. The only thing she’d stipulated was that he mustn’t tell Summer he’d come to ensure the successful sale of the house. She also hadn’t forbidden him from saying he’d known her.

He couldn’t let Summer go on thinking such terrible things about her mother.

Gently he tapped on the door—once, twice. “Summer, it’s Costa. Please let me in.”

No movement, no whisper of her tiptoeing across the floor.

He imagined her, lying on crumpled sheets sobbing, and he burned to get to her.

“Summer?”

Her voice came, fluted but firm. “Costa, I’m fine, please go back to the party. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“I’m not going anywhere.”

“I don’t need you anymore, Costa.” Pride and self-reliance rang through her words. “I’ll never be able to thank you for what you’ve done for me.” But then her voice quivered, and he felt her fragility, bone deep. “But I’d be more comfortable if I could finish this by myself.”

His stomach clenched. It wasn’t true. She didn’t mean it. She couldn’t mean it.

“Summer, I’m not going anywhere until you understand the truth. You’ve got completely the wrong idea about your mother’s life on the island. It’s time you learned about the past.”

After a long period of silence, he finally made out the flip-flop of her sandals as she crossed the floor and the click as she lifted the latch.

“You were the one who put this lock on.” Her smile was watery. “It’s enough to hold back a marauding army.”

She stood to the side as he moved through the door, but she was close enough that her warmth soaked into him, as did the scent of jasmine and ocean spray that always seemed to follow her.

The scarf she’d been wearing was nowhere to be seen, and the simplicity of the pink dress and the way her body moved beneath it held his gaze and took his breath away. It was the same way she’d looked when they got married. So beautiful. His wife.

Despite being early dusk, there wasn’t much natural light in the house. The electricity still hadn’t been connected in this part of the house, and the dancing glow from a row of candles illuminated the ceiling, the bed, her face. The soft curve

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