Battling the Best Man by Elley Arden

Author:Elley Arden [Arden, Elley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2013-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Time did fly when Will was having fun, and Kory was his choice entertainment. Days turned to weeks with Will more and more convinced she needed to stay. But convincing her wasn’t going to be easy.

He’d accepted a lot of personal and professional challenges in his high-achieving life, but throwing down the gauntlet where Kory and Chicago were concerned might have been his most foolish yet. Still, he couldn’t back down. How would that look? Worse, how would that feel? He wanted her here for as long as he could keep her, which was foolish, too. No matter how many times he told himself it was good for business, it was even better for his personal life.

Will enjoyed her—in and out of bed, which was a novelty for him. While there was no shortage of women around town who wanted to sleep with a Mitchell, women who really understood him and enjoyed his company were rare.

He winced. What the hell am I doing?

Technically, it was called Operation Keep Kory or OKK for short. He dubbed it that one evening when he was overly tired and completely out of his mind. It involved little things, like staying out of her way at the nursing home, giving her the space he suspected she needed, and not talking about his growing admiration of her and confusing feelings. In return, she was easily and regularly crawling into his bed. When they weren’t naked and otherwise engaged, they enjoyed each other’s company, talking about her father’s steady progress, the glimmers of hope in the nursing home budget and a love for watching mixed martial arts, of all things. Though Will supposed he shouldn’t be that surprised that the ultra-competitive, no-holds-barred nature of the sport appealed to them both.

When she was with him in the evenings, lounging on his sofa with Molly tucked between them, his life felt full. He had to admit he’d thought once or twice about altering his poor outlook on relationships.

The thoughts always started the same way. Maybe he could make a relationship work? Wasn’t it essentially what they had?

The thoughts always ended the same way, too. He was too old and jaded for a long-distance relationship, and long distance was what it would be…unless he could make her stay.

He glanced at his phone where his calendar read 2:30 P.M. Meeting with Charlie Cramer. It had taken days to get Charlie to agree to this meeting, and Will still wasn’t convinced the guy would show. But after eating a Charlie Cramer chocolate cake, Will had refused to give up. Maybe that was why he started to whistle when he spied Charlie already waiting for him across Main Street. That was a good sign.

Charlie’s hands were buried in his jeans pockets. A bright tattoo covering his forearm attracted Will’s attention. That’s new. Sort of like Charlie Cramer, clean and sober, was new. Charlie Cramer, a brilliant baker and chef? Now, that was beyond new. That was brilliant, and Will was going to capitalize on it.

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