His Curvy Enemy: A Curvy Girl Romance by Sullivan Piper

Author:Sullivan, Piper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Oliver

“This doesn’t look like taking it easy to me, Mirabelle.” I spotted Eva’s mother struggling to open the door to the supermarket between the obstacle of her cast and the oversized shopping cart.

She looked up at me, gray eyes twinkling with delight and amusement as she waved off my words. “I’m not much for being told what to do, something I hear we have in common.” She laughed at my stunned expression and shook her head, walking through the door I held for her. “Can you spare a few minutes to help an old lady?”

“I don’t see any old ladies, but I’m happy to help a friend in need.”

Mirabelle laughed again. “Goodness, the charm just rolls off you, doesn’t it? How my Eva hasn’t succumbed to your charms yet, I have no idea.”

“Who says I’m trying to make her succumb?” I wasn’t even using my moves on Eva, because it would be useless. She had already decided what kind of man I was, and I didn’t want to change her opinion. Much.

“Oh, please, for men like you, chasing after women is in your DNA. You wouldn’t know what to do if you weren’t chasing skirts. It’s what scares you so much about settling down—what will you do with all the free time?” She laughed again. Her words held no venom as she tested tomatoes and then a watermelon, nodding for my assistance when she was happy with her choices.

“You act like it’s some well-thought-out plan when it really isn’t like that at all.”

“Oh, I know,” she said, placing a sympathetic hand on my shoulder. “You’re a good man who’s just scared to trust in love. I know it because I married a man just like you and spent the best years of my life with him. Marriage came easy to him, because he went in of his own free will.”

That managed to pull a laugh from me. “You actually believe that?”

She nodded. “I do. I walked away, happy to do so because we didn’t want the same things. He was the one who changed his mind a few weeks later. It does happen, Oliver, even to the best of you.”

I mulled over Mirabelle’s words as we wove up and down the aisles of the grocery store, helping her with high shelves and heavy items. “Why isn’t dating enough, Mirabelle? Why does it always have to lead to more?”

“Because a woman in love, and a man, too,” she added with a knowing smile, “want the certainty marriage brings. Of knowing this person doesn’t just love me, but that they wake up each and every day and they choose me. Choose to be here with me, to laugh with me and weather the storm with me. That’s the more they want.”

I didn’t know what to say about that, because it sounded so foreign to me. “I never heard it put that way before.”

“Of course not—a handsome, virile man like yourself is focused on what you have to give up with marriage instead of thinking about all the things you’ll get.

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