Can't Buy Me Love by Elizabeth Powers

Author:Elizabeth Powers [Powers, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-11-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chase hadn’t meant to eavesdrop on the conversation. But Lena hadn’t closed her door, the walls at the shelter were fairly thin, and he had been in the next office, thumbing through a pile of papers Amelia had left for him. When the phone first rang, he had been tuned out, but when he heard his name, his attention snapped to the conversation, and he couldn’t really avoid it.

Chase. After a moment of silence, she went on. Other than his pretentious name? Let’s see. Throw in an equally pretentious personality, an arrogance to match, and just a generally boring demeanor. And then after another few seconds, he heard, He’s got money, followed by her laughter.

Chase knew he had baggage. And he knew that he needed to be careful that he didn’t misjudge others because of that baggage. But Lena’s end of the conversation had just gotten worse. I honestly have started to cringe when he calls me and says that he wants to see me. Well that just hurt, Chase admitted to himself. He had thought that they were getting along really well, and that Lena liked spending time with him as much as he enjoyed spending time with her. He’d been fooled before, he knew, but this time he honestly thought he’d met someone who liked him too.

Sitting down on the couch in the office, Chase tried to think logically. He remembered their time together in Arizona. He thought about how much Lena’s staff here at the shelter loved her. He thought about his growing attraction to her, and how much he enjoyed her company. But the words he’d overheard her saying kept playing over and over in his mind. And though he would have liked nothing more than to ignore them and pretend they were never uttered, he couldn’t do that. Pretentious. Arrogant. Boring. Conceited. Rich.

Chase knew that he and Lena were sexually compatible – you couldn’t fake that kind of chemistry. But it was quite possible that her body and her wallet wanted him, but her brain and her heart did not. And at this point, Chase could understand the emotions that a conflicting heart and head could cause, because his own heart was telling him that there must be some rationale for what he’d just heard. But his head was telling him that no other explanation made sense.

He sees what he wants to see. Or what I choose to show him. He thought back to his months spent with Charlene, and then thought about how she became a completely different woman after he showed up at her workplace. At one point, when they were together in Arizona, Lena had actually told him that she had changed her personality to suit him. I thought that Charlene was who you wanted, she had said. So while it was true that he liked Lena far better, was she just another derivation of a personality, designed to reel him in?

Her father had unintentionally warned him. He had told Chase that Lena liked having money, liked the latest fashions, the best salons.

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