Love You Truly: A Small-Town, Marriage of Convenience Romance (Buttercup Hill Book 3) by Stacy Travis

Author:Stacy Travis [Travis, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fast Turtle Press
Published: 2024-06-27T00:00:00+00:00

Thirty minutes later, I’m knocking on Mallory’s door, having no idea what she does on a Saturday. For all I know, she could be in some Pilates class or riding a horse.

I almost dart back to my truck and speed the hell off her property. I’m a bundle of nerves, which is ridiculous. This isn’t a real proposal.

So why does it feel like a big fucking deal?

I should leave. Except that the front door is opening. Apparently, Mallory is home. She stands in front of me wearing a pale blue tank top that shows off bronzed skin that has no right to look that soft. My eyes trail down from her collarbones to the top's contours, making it clear she’s not wearing a bra. Curves all day long.

Good day for me to show up unexpectedly.

Because instead of standing here imagining what her breasts might look like under a filmy swatch of cotton, I have a complete picture. Her perky nipples bite through the fabric, and I can’t stop staring. Maybe I really am just a guy who ogles women for sport. At the moment, I’m an Olympic athlete at ogling, and I don’t feel one bit apologetic about it.

Until she clears her throat.

My eyes shoot back to her face, which has a decidedly confused and perturbed expression. Her pretty mouth turns down in a frown, and she squints at me as though I’m too bright to handle.

“Hi.” She crosses her arms over her chest like any sane person would when faced with a panting lapdog ready to lick her from head to toe.

“Hi.” I’m safer to start with that than blurt out inappropriate things about how good her long, bare legs look in the cutoff denim shorts she’s wearing.

“What are you doing here?” The confusion hasn’t left her face, and I realize she has a legitimate right to look at me that way, given that I showed up at her doorstep unannounced in the middle of a weekend when we didn’t plan to see each other.

“Right. That.” I had the entire drive up from San Francisco to come up with some idea of what to say to her, and right now, none of those thoughts occupy my brain. I feel like an awkward preteen boy standing before the prom queen on a dare.

Sometimes, when I look at Mallory, I feel like the geeky freshman I never actually was, thanks mostly to a deep voice and muscles that developed early. Now, I have sympathy for every one of my pale, skinny friends who struck out with girls on the regular.

Mallory clears her throat, making me realize I’m staring at her without explanation.

“I, um, figured we should make it official.”

Driving up here under a bluebird sky framed by wispy white clouds in the distance, I imagined what Cyrano would tell dopey Christian. I tried to come up with my own silver-tongued magic to get the girl.

But then I stopped myself, remembering I’m not a lovestruck suitor. I’m just a guy who made a deal he wants to honor.

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