Best Man Rancher Rancher's Christmas Storm by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-07-19T13:13:56+00:00

Chapter 2

“I put an ad in the paper.”

“For?” Isaiah’s brother Joshua looked up from his computer and stared at him like he was waiting to hear the answers to the mystery of the universe.

Joshua, Isaiah and their younger sister, Faith, were sitting in the waiting area of their office, enjoying their early-morning coffee. Or maybe enjoying was overstating it. The three of them were trying to find a state of consciousness.

“A wife.”

Faith spat her coffee back into her cup. “What?”

“I placed an ad in the paper to help me find a wife,” he repeated.

Honestly, he couldn’t understand why she was having such a large reaction to the news. After all, that was how Joshua had found his wife, Danielle.

“You can’t be serious,” Joshua said.

“I expected you of all people to be supportive.”

“Why me?”

“Because that’s how you met Danielle. Or you have you forgotten?”

“I have not forgotten how I met my wife. However, I didn’t put an ad out there seriously thinking I was going to find someone to marry. I was trying to prove to dad that his ad was a stupid idea.”

“But it turned out it wasn’t a stupid idea,” Isaiah said. “I want to get married. I figured this was a hassle-free way of finding a wife.”

Faith stared at him, dumbfounded. “You can’t be serious.”

“I’m serious.”

The door to the office opened, and Poppy walked in wearing a cheerful, polka-dotted dress, her dark hair swept back into a bun, a few curls around her face.

“Please tell me my brother is joking,” Faith said. “And that he didn’t actually put an ad in the paper to find a wife.”

Poppy looked from him back to Faith. “He doesn’t joke, you know that.”

“And you know that he put an ad in the paper for a wife?” Joshua asked.

“Of course I know,” Poppy responded. “Who do you think is doing the interviews?”

That earned him two slack-jawed looks.

“Who else is going to do it?” Isaiah asked.

“You’re not even doing the interview for your own wife?” Faith asked.

“I trust Poppy implicitly. If I didn’t, she wouldn’t be my assistant.”

“Of all the... You are insane.” Faith stormed out of the room. Joshua continued to sit and sip his coffee.

“No comment?” Isaiah asked.

“Oh, I have plenty. But I know you well enough to know that making them won’t change a damn thing. So I’m keeping my thoughts to myself. However,” he said, collecting his computer and his coffee, “I do have to go to work now.”

That left both Isaiah and Poppy standing in the room by themselves. She wasn’t looking at him; she was staring off down the hall, her expression unreadable. She had a delicate profile, dark, sweeping eyelashes and a fascinating curve to her lips. Her neck was long and elegant, and the way her dress shaped around her full breasts was definitely a pleasing sight.

He clenched his teeth. He didn’t make a habit of looking at Poppy that way. But she was pretty. He had always thought so.

Even back when he’d been with Rosalind he’d thought there was something.

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