Crazy for Love by Victoria Dahl

Author:Victoria Dahl
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Absence and presumption of death, Man-woman relationships, Contemporary, General, Romance, Vacations, Islands, Fiction, Millionaires, Love stories
ISBN: 9780373774623
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2010-07-01T00:50:46+00:00

“I USED TO BE THAT GIRL,” Chloe started. “The one you thought I was. I used to be average and normal and happy. I was calm. My boyfriend was average and normal, too. I even thought he was happy.” She flashed a smile at that, though her amusement was admittedly edged with anger. But her anger faded in the face of Max. He looked so sweet, filling up her couch, his ankle propped on one knee, a beer balanced carefully on the other.

Chloe took a deep breath. “He was a good, steady boyfriend. I thought he’d make a good, steady husband. Now I can look back and see that his proposal didn’t make me see unicorns or anything.”

“Unicorns?” He looked baffled.

“You know, hearts and stars. But I didn’t care. We got along well, his mom loved me, and I could picture growing old with him. So I said yes.”

“That seems…unromantic.”

“In retrospect, yes. I’m an accountant. I’m careful. I’m not the freak show they’ve made me out to be, Max. I did everything right. And look where that got me.”

“But how did this happen?”

“I have no idea. We started planning the wedding. It was a little hectic because his mother kept insisting on how everything should be done. I liked her, but she’s got a spine of steel, and I think she supplemented it with Thomas’s spine, because his was obviously missing. Oops. Did I say that?”

He gave her a little half smile. “I didn’t hear a thing.”

“I admit that I wanted the wedding to be perfect. I wanted everyone to have a great time. Maybe I got carried away with the plans and trying to accommodate Thomas’s mom, but I didn’t do half the things the gossip sites say I did.”

Max glanced down to his beer and the tips of his ears reddened. Clearly, he’d been exploring those Web sites today.

“Yes, I cried at the dressmaker’s, but I never, ever yelled at anyone in a store. I don’t do that. And my cousin is an attention-seeking brat, so you can toss out every single word she’s said about me. The same goes for my freshman roommate.”

“Did you really order him to have his tattoo surgically removed before the wedding?”

“Oh my God. Where did you read that? His mother was the one who hated the tattoo. Which was a tiny ankh on the inside of his wrist, by the way. Feel free to call him a pussy. Oh, jeez.” Chloe slapped a hand over her mouth and muttered a muffled “Sorry.”

“That’s fine, but I probably shouldn’t mention the little butterfly tat on my ass.”

“At least that would be something different.”

“For a guy, anyway.”

“Seen a lot of butterfly-graced asses, have you?”

Max winked, giving a flash of his carefree-playboy persona.

“Regardless, it wasn’t true. Just as it’s not true that I bankrupted my parents with the wedding bills, or ordered all my bridesmaids to lose weight, or threw a sample bouquet at the florist’s face.”

He cocked an eyebrow. “But did you sleep with my brother? Because that’s news I could use.

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