All They Need by Sarah Mayberry

Author:Sarah Mayberry
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

MEL STARED OUT the train window on the way home from the city. Around her, schoolkids played, the boys shoving each other around and checking out the girls, the girls gossiping and texting and checking out the boys.

Mel’s thoughts were preoccupied with the man she’d left behind.

I like you, Mel Porter.

The words still gave her a thrill, even though it had been a couple of hours since he’d uttered them.

She liked him, too. More so every day.

She felt the now-familiar dart of anxiety as she acknowledged her own feelings. When she was with Flynn, it all seemed incredibly easy. He was so charming and funny and sweet and sexy. Why wouldn’t she want to spend time with him? Why wouldn’t she let instinct take over?

Yet when she wasn’t with him, reality crowded in. She had no business even thinking about being with someone at the moment. Her head was still way too full with the detritus from her marriage—witness what had happened when they’d run in to Owen in that hideous excuse for a restaurant.

She had literally flushed hot, then cold when she’d glanced across the dining room and found herself looking into her ex-husband’s eyes. The angry, outraged expression on his face had propelled her back in time, back to the days when that look had meant either a lecture or cold silence in the car on the way home, punishment for whatever transgression she’d committed. Laughing too loudly, telling a bawdy joke, drinking too much—she’d been raked over the coals for all of them at one time or another.

Then the insistent weight of Flynn’s warm hand on the small of her back had registered and she’d remembered that she was free and that Owen’s disapproval and anger meant nothing to her now.

Less than nothing.

Of course, she knew what he’d been unhappy about. He’d done backflips trying to become Flynn’s friend, trying to inveigle his way into the Randalls’ inner circle. To see Mel there so easily, so effortlessly… He’d be brooding over it for hours, no doubt. Wondering what had been said between her and Flynn, what had been done.

God, she was glad she was free of it. All of it. The pretentious restaurants, the constant low-level anxiety about looking the right way and saying the right thing… It had been exhausting. Six long years of trying to live up to her husband’s expectations.

If only she’d thought to ask him to live up to hers.

She’d expected him to love her. She’d expected him to be her friend. She’d expected him to be on her side, to support her. He’d failed to deliver on almost every score.

The train pulled into a station and Mel shook herself. She didn’t want to waste more time thinking about Owen. He’d consumed enough of her life.

As for Flynn…

She didn’t want to think about him, either, but for very different reasons.

It was too late, however. Her mouth was already curving into a smile as she remembered that stunt he’d tried to pull with the mayonnaise.

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