His Bewildering Bride (The Brides of Paradise Ranch - Spicy Version Book 3) by Merry Farmer

Author:Merry Farmer [Farmer, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-27T18:30:00+00:00

The flurry of activity around placing orders lasted for a solid half hour. After that, those who hadn’t already stepped away to eat lunch with their families grew too tired of pouring over dress designs to continue. Honestly or through coercion, by the time Mr. Gunn came around to count how many orders both Wendy and Melinda had secured, they were in a dead heat.

“We’ll begin the sewing portion of the contest tomorrow morning at the hotel,” he announced. “I’ll put together a schedule for taking measurements for each of your orders. Mr. Kline has said he’ll bring all the fabric in his store over for you to use.” In an aside he added, “Howard Haskell has agreed to pay for it,” then finished with, “Each of you ladies has your assistant, and if all goes well, you’ll all be stitching away for the rest of the week.”

“If all goes well,” Wendy murmured after Mr. Gunn had left to tell Melinda what he’d told her.

Travis paused halfway through unpinning her dress designs. “Why do you say that? Why wouldn’t it go well?”

Wendy raised her eyebrows at him. “Do you trust Miss Melinda Bonneville?”

Travis blinked, then softened into a chuckle. “I’ll give you this much, Mrs. Montrose. You may not have been in Haskell long, but you’re bright as the sun when it comes to guessing people’s motives and sizing up their character.”

She shouldn’t be so tickled that he’d called her ‘Mrs. Montrose,’ implying she was his. She chose to brush past the fluttering in her chest to give a doubtful hum. “It doesn’t take much to size up the character of some people,” she said as she finished taking down her sketches on the opposite side of the booth from Travis. “Especially when you’ve encountered far too many people with the same sort of opinions.”

She shuffled her drawings and circled around the back of the booth and inside to add them to the portfolio where she’d been keeping them. Travis didn’t reply immediately. She was just beginning to wonder what he’d made of her gloomy statement when he stepped into the opening at the back of the booth.

“So, you’ve run into a lot of folks who are prejudiced?” His head was tilted slightly down, though his eyes met hers like twin arrows. He handed her the pile of drawings he’d unpinned.

In spite of the seriousness of his question, Wendy laughed. “I would very much like to say that you get used to it after a while.” She took the drawings from him and added them to the pile with the others. Turned half away from him, she said, “I’d like to say that, but you never do get used to people thinking things about you that have nothing to do with who you really are.”

Travis thrust his hands into his pockets and inched deeper into the booth. “I hope that I’m getting to know who you truly are.”

The intensity of his gaze and the closeness of the booth gave Wendy

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