Mad Enough to Marry by Christie Ridgway

Author:Christie Ridgway
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Man-woman relationships, Romance - Adult, Romance: Modern, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, California, Adult, Romance & Sagas, Romance - Contemporary, General, Roommates, Love stories, Fiction - Romance
ISBN: 9780373244812
Publisher: Silhouette Books
Published: 2002-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

Elena frowned, then leaned forward to lightly kiss his mouth. 'Then I'm even more glad for you that you're now doing what you want."

His gaze didn't leave hers. "Are you, Elena? Are you really glad?"

She nodded. "Of course."

"Then maybe you should think about being glad for Gabby too."

Elena's spine stiffened. "I thought you were going

to make me feel better. Talking about Gabby right now isn't going to do that.*'

'I'll talk about me, then."

Elena squirmed. *'Come on—"

'*I was miserable for more years than I care to count because I went along with what my family expected of me. Not just in the business, but in the women I dated. Danm it, Elena, don't do that to Gabby. Don't design her life for her and expect her to follow it to the letter."

She jumped to her feet. 'I'm not designing her life. Fm helping to direct her talents." Hearing herself, she shook her head. "No, no, that sounds as if she doesn't know her own mind."

Logan's eyebrows lifted. "So you concede that she has her own mind? That she knows exactly what she wants?"

"Of course she does!" Elena hissed at him. "She's got the brains and the tenacity to be a doctor."

"But does she have the will?"

"She has the will to be anything," Elena shot at him. "Anything."

"Maybe her will—and more importantly her heart—^tells her she should be an artist."

Elena found herself restless and edgy, so she started pacing the small room, as if she could walk off the feelings. "She wants to be an artist because she's infatuated with Tyler and he wants to be an artist. As soon as her interest in him dies, so will her interest in attending Acton."

"What if her interest in Tyler doesn't die?"

'*Then his will in her," Elena replied. Her jaw hurt from the way she was clenching it to control her voice from rising. *'The truth is, when Gabby's heart is broken she'll finally grow up and figure out what's important."

*'Ah, now we're getting to it. The Gospel According to Elena."

Oh, his voice was so deceptively, so sarcastically mild. She clenched her fists. *'Go ahead and scoff."

"I'm not scoffing. I want to know what's *impor-tant' to Elena O'Brien. What did growing up teach you?"

That was easy. '*To count on no one but myself. To trust no one and nothing other than my own strength and my own sweat."

Though he was silent, the atmosphere seemed to grow heavy, charged with a tension that was almost electric. **Don't you really mean men?" he said. **That a woman shouldn't count on, trust a man?"

Elena tried to ignore the stormy feel that continued to gather in the small room. **That too," she muttered.

He popped out of the chair with such force that it sUd back a foot. "Damn you. You really believe that, don't you?"

He stalked toward her, but she stood her ground and held her voice to a cool, methodical tone. "Why wouldn't I? Why wouldn't I think of my father and then every other male who

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