Love, Valentine Style by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pink Pixel Publishing
Published: 2013-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

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Ian Anders watched his assistant dust an Elizabethan-style chair. Holly’s chestnut hair fell over her shoulders, shining like satin in the morning sun. Everything about her reminded him of Miranda, from her hair, to her long, shapely legs, to her size-seven feet. But that wasn’t why he hired her. He needed help. Business had picked up over Christmas and had stayed steady ever since. However, that was why he’d dated her. After a couple of weeks, though, he’d known she was a rebound. It wouldn’t have been right if he kept seeing her. She was a sweet girl and deserved someone who was open to falling in love. And that wasn’t him.

Holly had appreciated his honesty, and their relationship shifted gears to good friends. The problem was every time he looked at her, he saw Miranda, and that left him with a dull ache in his chest that never went away. It had gotten worse too since Beatrice Kane had come into the shop a few days ago looking to buy a music box for her daughter.

Ian had always had a great relationship with Beatrice. Three years ago when he moved to Pleasant View, he didn’t know a soul. Trying to get Yesterday’s Treasures off the ground took all his time, so when one of his customers suggested he see a matchmaker, Ian didn’t take much convincing. What did he have to lose? He’d been lonely and miserable for months.

Right off the bat, Beatrice had put him at ease during her matchmaking interview. When it was over, she’d handed him a photograph from the console behind her desk of a gorgeous young woman, then announced that she was fixing him up with her daughter. Miranda and he hit it off immediately and wound up moving in together a month later. Everything had been perfect. Or so he’d thought until she’d brought his world crumbling down around him when she announced she was moving to Texas.

She’d come home from work on a beautiful September afternoon. The sky had been a perfect robin’s egg blue, not a cloud in the sky, and the leaves had just begun to change color. So when she’d suggested they take a drive, he’d thought nothing of it. Even when she’d told him they needed to talk, he hadn’t been worried. Like a fool, he thought she was going to tell him they should set a date to get married. They’d talked about it a number of times, and she was well aware he was ready whenever she was. How could he have known that instead of becoming his bride, she wanted to move across the country.

And now she was back in town.

It hadn’t taken Beatrice longer than, “Hello, Ian. It’s nice to see you again,” to inform him that Miranda’s job in Texas hadn’t worked out and she was living in a little condo on the west side of town. Now with Beatrice being a matchmaker and her having fixed them up

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