Dating the Best Man by Gail Sattler

Author:Gail Sattler
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460380086
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

As Daphne began the sequence to shut down her computer, again she looked outside. When she first got the promotion she’d relished the thought of being in an office with an outside window. Now she wasn’t so sure.

At the sight of the big black pickup truck with the picture of the moose on it, waiting for her in the parking lot, her stomach churned.

Part of her was happy to see him, but part of her was terrified. Not because she was scared of him, but because she wasn’t.

He’d been so gentle and understanding of her phobias she’d nearly cried in front of him, which was the last thing she wanted to happen. The first time he’d taken her out he’d helped her through a panic attack, and then he fended off another moment of panic in his truck. He couldn’t see her cry again.

She’d managed to hold back her tears until she’d gotten into her car. So he wouldn’t see, she’d sped off. But it hadn’t taken him long, with that monster of a truck of his, to catch up to her.

Fortunately he’d waited in the truck and just watched her run inside the house instead of trying to escort her to the door. Unfortunately, though, Rick had been waiting and he’d seen her streak past him with tears streaming down her cheeks. She’d called out that nothing happened on her way past, so at least Rick knew that Cory hadn’t done anything bad. But she was still shaken with everything that had happened.

She hadn’t openly cried about it since the night Alex had attacked her, not even during the therapy sessions. She’d just felt numb. Last night, for the first time, everything blew to the surface. She didn’t know why. It just did. Her therapist said it could happen, and apparently, she was right.

So she’d been driving, alone, bawling her eyes out, and it was the start of the release she’d needed. With Cory driving behind her, he couldn’t see her, just the back of the car, yet he was close enough if she needed him. She’d felt safe to let it all out, and it had all come out, in the security and safety of her car. With a little more work and a lot of prayer, this was going to be the start of being able to move on with her life.

Yet, that was now something new that scared her.

When she got her act together, and she would get it together, Cory would go back to wherever forest rangers went in their time off. Before the chamber dinner, she’d only see him when he’d had time to join her brother and his friends, which now wouldn’t be often enough.

She didn’t know what favor Cory owed Rick that he would help her this way, but whatever it was, one day she would thank her brother for it.

Now, Cory was out there, waiting for her.

The second the computer finished shutting down, she locked up her office and went to the parking lot to join him.

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