In Search of the Long-Lost Maverick by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-04-06T11:44:25+00:00

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Mel was wrong about Gabe.

He was very interested. And acting uninterested had been a bad idea. He realized that now. He’d freaked and tried to tell himself he needed to forget her.

Unfortunately, forgetting her wasn’t happening. She filled his mind and heart.

So sue him. He’d never been in love before. He had a right to be bad at it at first. Didn’t he?

Would Mel understand if he tried to apologize after not calling for four days, and then being a hopeless jackass when she’d called him?

No. She wouldn’t understand. Why should she understand? Mel was a proud woman. She wasn’t going to put up with a guy who treated her like she was wasting his time when she called to ask if he was okay. He would hate it if she put up with a guy like that.

Even if the guy was him.

He’d lost her without having ever really had her.

What was he, thirteen again? He was certainly acting like it. Gone on a girl, being an idiot about it.

Disgusted with himself, he went to the stables and spent a few hours mucking out stalls with only his dog, the gruff head groom and the horses for company. The dirty job didn’t improve his attitude any.

He returned to the house, cleaned up and put on a suit. He had a business dinner at the Association. Over good whiskey and a blood-rare porterhouse steak, he tried to keep his mind on the prospective project at hand: two blocks of luxury townhomes in Bronco Heights, which could be very lucrative for everyone involved.

But keeping his mind on business wasn’t easy. His thoughts kept wandering to Mel. Had he totally blown it with her? If he showed up at DJ’s again, would she even speak to him? If he knocked on her apartment door, would she refuse to answer?

He really didn’t need a damn broken heart—and that had kind of been why he’d behaved so coldly when she’d called.

It was a case of seriously flawed reasoning. He was already in love with her. Being rude to her, trying to push her away, wasn’t going to make his love go away. It only made her go away, which didn’t help in the least.

He was miserable. Heartbroken already. And he’d brought it on his own damn self. He needed to do something to make things better, somehow.

Even if Mel would never give him a real shot at winning her heart, that didn’t stop him from stepping up and apologizing for acting like a jerk when she’d been nothing short of a sweetheart, calling to find out if he was all right, trying to clear the air between them, wanting to let him know she wouldn’t push him about the diary if he wasn’t willing to go there with Gramps.

And as far as that whole thing with the diary, well, why not help the woman he loved clear up an old mystery if he could? What if the impossible turned out to be true

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