Met Her Match by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2019-07-11T15:13:46+00:00

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The next morning, as soon as Terri opened her eyes, she knew that Nate was gone. The house had an emptiness that she felt in her bones. She pulled the covers over her head and wished she could go back a few days. Go back to when the smell of coffee woke her, to a time when she’d stumble into the kitchen, yawning, and Nate would be frying bacon.

But she’d known it was all temporary. Only on that first day had she had about an hour when she thought she and Nate could be... Could be more than friends. She’d bragged to her father that it was better to love and lose than...

“Oh hell!” she muttered, and got out of bed. She had to look to the future, not the past. Someday Nate would be married to Stacy Hartman and they’d all laugh in fond memory of these past weeks.

“Yeah, right,” she mumbled. She got dressed. It was early, the sun just rising. Today was the opening of the festival and she’d be inundated with work. Good. And where would Nate be? With Stacy? Laughing together as she told amusing stories about her adventures in Italy?

“One time I had a flat tire on the way to Richmond,” Terri said under her breath. Changing that on the side of the highway with seventy mile an hour traffic had been a real adventure.

As she walked into the kitchen, she saw that Nate had taped a piece of paper on the fridge. It was a drawing of the back of a muscular man wearing a towel and holding a rugby ball. Hank Bullnose, prop forward, says he’ll meet you in the dressing room at noon. Bring sausages.

Terri knew the cartoon was supposed to make her smile, but instead, it brought tears to her eyes. She ran across the room, threw the door open and went outside to fall into one of the chairs. Her chair. The one next to Nate’s. Where the two of them had sat in the evenings and on weekends. Where they’d shared meals and laughter and confidences.

The lake was beginning to come alive. She saw lights coming on, heard a couple of shouts and motors.

It was Widiwick, she thought. It was a festival that had been started by an eleven-year-old boy with a heart as big as the earth. A boy the town came to love to the point where he was their ideal of perfection. WWBD. What would Billy do? they asked one another. It became a motto. Something to achieve.

All through school Terri had been too busy to think about the things other girls did. She wasn’t interested in the dances—unless they were to be held at the lake. Then her concern was feeding people and getting them across the docks without falling in after they’d had too much spiked punch.

She’d heard the girls giggling over beautiful Billy Thorndyke. Who was he going to date when he ever did? He couldn’t spend his entire life

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