Love on the Rebound (Hawaii Billionaire Romance) by Jennifer Youngblood & Sandra Poole

Author:Jennifer Youngblood & Sandra Poole
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Arbor House Books
Published: 2016-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;

It was never between you and them anyway.

He grew thoughtful. “I like that. Good words to live by.”

“Yep. As a kid I always added my own lines.

“You may be the shyest kid in the room, but you need to act confident anyway.”

Christian chuckled. “You? Shy? I don’t believe it.”

“You know the saying—fake it till you make it. That’s my mantra.”

“Well, it obviously works.”

“Of course, my mama was the queen of adding in her two-cents to the poem. Her favorite when I was a teenager was. ‘You may not like cleaning your room, but you need to do it anyway.’”

“Smart mom.”

Everly felt a rush of tenderness for her resilient mama who’d survived her husband walking out on her when Everly was a baby and cancer too. “Yeah, she’s pretty great.”

“I’d like to meet her sometime.”

Time seemed to slow as their eyes locked. This relationship was progressing at warp speed. In many ways, it felt like she’d known Christian forever. A part of her wished she and Jordan could stay here in his world. “I would like that very much,” she uttered.

Tenderness filled his eyes, and she saw the longing he felt for her. He probably would’ve kissed her, had she not scooted backwards.

He looked surprised and a little hurt, but she needed to know something before this went any further. “You must’ve loved Heather very much.” The words spilled out between them like lava burning a chasm between adjoining mountains.

His jaw started working. “I cared a great deal. Heather was a free spirit, only living for the moment. Everything with her felt fleeting and temporary. I suppose, in time, I would’ve come to love her … if the situation had been different.”

Silence overtook them, each of them lost in thought, until Christian spoke. “Seeing Heather in a wheelchair … knowing she would never be able to walk again or have a normal life …” His voice caught. “Every time I looked at her, I kept thinking—why her? Why was I okay when she wasn’t?”

The anguish in Christian’s voice was heartbreaking, and Everly wished she had the words to ease his pain. All she could do was nod and let him know she understood.

“I-I should’ve been there for her.” He balled a fist and brought it to his mouth.

“I don’t understand. It sounds like you were there for her. It’s not your fault. It was an accident, and you weren’t even the one driving.”

“I went to visit Heather often, but it was painful and awkward. Heather resented the fact that I was virtually unscathed, while she was paralyzed.”

“She said that to you?” she said, feeling a sting of anger at this woman she’d never met.

“No, she never voiced it out loud, but I could see it in her eyes.

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