How to Catch a Groom by Jacobs Holly

Author:Jacobs, Holly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ilex Books
Published: 2019-06-03T16:00:00+00:00

Seth was prepared for Desi to ooh and ah.

He was prepared for her to study the specimen.

He wasn’t prepared for her shriek or for the mussel to go flying across the boat. And he especially wasn’t prepared to have it land right between his eyes with a nice little thwack.

But Desi obviously wasn’t prepared either … wasn’t set for the fact that The Guppy was a small boat. As she backed up, wiping her hand on her shorts as if she was trying to wipe childhood cooties off her hand, she’d backed right over the side into the churning lake waters.

Seth’s heart squeezed into his throat.

“Desi!” he screamed as he raced to the edge.

He saw her safe within her orange life vest, bobbing next to the boat.

“Here, grab my hand.” He leaned over the edge and thrust his hand toward her.

She smiled then and reached up.

He pulled.

Desi braced her feet against the side of the boat, but rather than pulling herself up as he expected—as any sane, rational person would do—she pulled him down.

Hard.

Seth went toppling over the side, head first into the water as well. He immediately bobbed up to the surface because of his life vest.

“What did you do that for?” he burbled as he choked on the water he’d inhaled on the way down.

“I don’t know,” she said, laughing.

Laughing hard.

There was something familiar in that laugh. Seth bobbed in the lake, desperately trying to analyze what it was as he studied her.

Then it hit him.

Desi’s laugh had the same quality to it as Mary Kathryn’s had when she was on the phone laughing with Tony. Sensual.

It made him think about the kiss they’d shared.

Looking for a diversion, he did the only thing he could think of. He swam for the still laughing Desi and said, “That wasn’t nice,” just before he dunked her.

She bobbed, in a life-vested induced way, like an apple in a barrel. She came up still laughing as she coughed and sputtered. At that moment, Seth did something totally out of character.

He laughed.

Not a small chuckle or a quiet laugh he might make politely at any faculty party when someone made a joke.

No, this was a laugh ripped from the tips of his toes that traveled throughout his body, gaining momentum, until the moment it burst forth and rang out.

It surprised him.

Maybe it surprised Desi too, because she stopped sputtering and laughing, and simply stared at him a moment. She looked at him as if he was something rather foreign and mystifying.

Then, just as suddenly, she was laughing again. “You think you can take me on and win? Well, you asked for it, Rutherford.”

“Oh, yeah?”

“Yeah. Prepare to be conquered.”

Conquered. That’s just how he felt as he spent the next half an hour playing in the water. Conquered by a brunette with green eyes and a quick smile. The thought was more alien than his laughter.

To be conquered by a small laughing woman who reminded him that there was more to Lake Erie’s water than

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