Marked for Marriage by Jackie Merritt

Author:Jackie Merritt [Merritt, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373362295
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Changes were in the air when Maddie got up the next morning. Snow was still falling, but the wind had died down. Without that driving force, yesterday’s fierce blizzard was now a rather peaceful snowfall. There were horrendous drifts everywhere, of course, but Maddie knew that without the wind the plows would have a much better chance of clearing the roads today.

The house was silent, and walking from her bedroom, Maddie felt a peculiar pang. It was too quiet; Noah must have gone somewhere. He could be just outside, she thought, and hurried to the kitchen to check the driveway. It had been shoveled and was vacant! A chill walked Maddie’s spine, though she had no idea why Noah’s absence would affect her so adversely. She should be glad that he’d finally decided to resume his own life, instead of living in the middle of hers.

Turning away from the window with a stiff-upper-lip attitude—heavens, she certainly could survive without Noah Martin’s exasperating bossiness—she smelled coffee and saw the almost-full pot in the coffeemaker. She also saw a sheet of white paper in the middle of the kitchen table, held down on each of its four corners by a can of tomato soup. There were also two small packets that Maddie assumed contained pills, the new ones that Noah had given her yesterday and had worked so well.

Maddie eyed the note warily, strongly suspecting that Noah’s bossiness hadn’t vanished when he had. He’d left a note and made certain that she wouldn’t miss seeing it, as she had yesterday.

Accepting her fate, Maddie poured a cup of coffee, added milk and then brought it to the table and sat down. Moving the cans of soup off the paper, she slid it over to reside on the table just in front of her. Then she took a few swallows of coffee and began reading.

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