Heart in Waiting (Heart's Intent Book 5) by Dawn Brower

Author:Dawn Brower [Brower, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: suspense, contemporary, Second chance, Romance
Publisher: Monarchal Glenn Press
Published: 2018-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Dane parked his car in front of Reese’s condo and took a deep breath. This was it—he was technically taking her on a date. He couldn’t wrap his mind around it no matter how much he tried. It was for her protection, but it didn’t feel that way. Something about it seemed all too real, and it terrified him. How was he going to make it through a whole evening if he couldn’t get it together outside her home?

“Go ring the doorbell, asshole,” he muttered to himself. “Carter has his own date to pick up.”

He gathered what little courage he could muster and stepped out of his car, shutting the door behind him. His tie seemed like it was hell-bent on strangling him. He wrenched his fingers underneath the silk wrapped around his neck and yanked it loose. It probably looked awful now that he fussed with the damn thing. Reese would think him uncouth and too rough around the edges to take any place nice. He grumbled and pushed her doorbell. The chimes echoed around, announcing his arrival like a prince there to collect the fair maiden—and he was a maudlin fool. He was the last person anyone would think of as princely.

The door opened and Carter greeted him. “Took you long enough.”

Dane lifted a brow. “Have a hot date or something?”

His mouth formed a hard, white line. “She’s definitely something... Come in. Reese is finishing up, so I don’t know how long she’ll be. She’s already been closed off in her bedroom for an hour. I’m afraid to knock again. The last time, she darn near bit my head off.”

“She probably didn’t appreciate the interruption.” Dane made a similar mistake the first morning he’d spent at her condo. “She’s particular about how she does things.”

“I know that,” Carter grumbled. “I did grow up in the same house.”

“Then why are you surprised?”

Sometimes he forgot that Reese was Carter’s sister. They hadn’t traveled in the same social circles and it was a fluke he’d met Reese at all. If she hadn’t been dating someone at the school he went to as a teen, he might not have. Well, that wasn’t true either. At some point, he probably would have since he was Carter’s partner, but he wouldn’t have been in love with her since he was eighteen. It would have just happened a lot later on. Of course, by the time he saw her again after the prom, she’d been dating Nolan. That had soured his stomach in ways rotten food never would. Who knows how he’d have felt about her seeing her on his brother’s arm. He’d hated it when he was already in love with her, and if he met her for the first time in that scenario he might have hated her.

“I thought maybe she’d have grown out of it.” Carter shrugged. “Now that you’re here, I’ll go collect Miss Prissy and meet you two at the Roseland hotel.”

“Wait,” Dane said. “I didn’t realize this was in a different town.

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