Bride for Keeps by Nicole Helm

Author:Nicole Helm [Helm, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781948342391
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2018-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

She wanted to scream, but Carter had already caught sight of her punching the steering wheel and apparently thought it was quite hilarious based on that grin that skittered through her like light.

Oh, it had been so long since she’d seen him smile, really smile, and it felt like summer in the midst of all this winter. But nothing was hilarious after that kiss. Because no matter how she repeated what she’d told him in her head:

Of course we’re attracted.

Of course we love each other.

That kiss reminded her so much of their first she could hardly shake off the need to run right back to him. She had never, ever expected to fall head over heels for Carter McArthur. Doctor Carter McArthur. She’d always been aware she was a bad girl—not exactly from the wrong side of the tracks, but certainly not from the McArthur side.

She’d never been like Kaitlin. Never tried to be good or responsible. She’d done what she wanted because it had been clear after all the arguing Dad and Luke had done that Dad would find fault either way.

But she’d fallen hard and fast for Carter and ignored that little niggling voice that had always told her she’d never be good enough for him. But it had come back and with a vengeance, hadn’t it? The past few months had been nothing about knowing she wasn’t good enough for him. Not good enough to be confided in. Not good enough to accept comfort from. Not good enough to trust.

Giving in to this now would only repeat the last year on a cycle. Maybe they’d be happy for a bit, but that McArthur world where he and they were the center and she didn’t factor into any of his ‘life views’… It would all come back.

She’d tried the love route, and it hadn’t made either of them happy.

For some reason she thought of Kaitlin and Beckett, who were one of the most demonstratively in love couples she knew. Sierra knew Kaitlin had never planned on falling for their brother’s bad boy of a best friend, and she knew that Kaitlin’s unplanned pregnancy had played a part.

But they so clearly loved each other. What sense did that make?

Carter tapped on the window and she scowled at him.

“Go away.” Childish? Yes, but she’d spent five minutes being very adult and talking about things that hurt like hell and she was done with it.

He motioned for her to open the door. There really wasn’t another choice. She couldn’t freeze in her car for another twenty minutes or however long it would take to find someone free to come pick her up and take her home.

“I’ll drive you home.”

“No, I’ll call my dad. But I’ll sit in your car with the heater on while we wait. Silently, of course. If you can agree.” She could be adult if she had to be.

“Sierra. Let me drive you home. I promise, I won’t say a word.”

If he was anyone else, she wouldn’t have believed that promise, but even in all this…weirdness, Carter didn’t lie.

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