Montana Mornings (The Wildes of Birch Bay Book 3) by Kim Law

Author:Kim Law [Law, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503943117
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2017-02-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Gabe heard the heat in the rush of Erica’s words. “How do you figure?”

She tried to turn away again, but he didn’t let her. This was big for her. Therefore, this was too important to avoid.

“How?” he asked again.

“It doesn’t. Never mind. I just—”

“Answer the question.”

She glared at him, and he could see her wanting to ignore his demand. To tell him to go to hell. But he refused to back down. He wouldn’t let her ignore this, because there was no chance her husband’s cheating had been on her.

“How?” he asked more softy.

“I’m boring, okay?” she spat out. She stood to face him. “And I always have been.” Her quilt slipped to puddle at her feet, and she held her arms out to her sides. “I’m not glitz and glamour. There’s absolutely nothing special about me.”

“Bullshit.” He stood with her. “Nothing about you has ever been boring. Hell, I couldn’t take my eyes off you the night we met.”

“Yet, you—”

“I never once looked at another woman while we were dating. Not the way I looked at you. Not until—” He bit off his words and sent a silent plea for her to understand. For him to be able to explain it in a way that didn’t make things worse. “It’s hard to describe Michelle. She was so ‘Hollywood.’ I visited LA with Ben that spring, and everything about the place put stars in my eyes. Michelle came on to me”—he grimaced—“and I was an idiot. I know that. I was mesmerized. But it wasn’t her beauty that did it. It was more her presence.”

“You mean, she wasn’t boring.”

“Stop it. No.” He reached for her hands, but she jerked them away. “Not wanting a big-city life, not needing material things, that doesn’t make you boring.”

“I need things,” she protested.

“You need people,” he corrected. “You need a purpose. You don’t need cars and jewelry in order to have a rich life.”

She frowned at his words before grumbling, “Yet you still chose her.”

“I was an idiot. I told you that. Young and stupid.” He wracked his brain to go back to that time. He hadn’t been lying, he’d fallen in love with Erica. He’d known, even then, that they could be something special. But at the same time, it had almost seemed too easy. Their relationship had fit too well with his preplanned life of coming back home and settling down at the farm—minus the part where she refused to come home with him, of course.

And then there had been Michelle. She’d been excitement. Different.

She’d not been the plan.

He begged Erica with his eyes, not knowing how better to explain things.

“I was too boring,” she said again.

He gulped. He’d never once thought of Erica as boring.

“It’s okay, Gabe.”

“I swear I never looked at you that way,” he whispered. “Not once.”

“It really is okay. I know what I am. What I’ve always been. And you followed your heart back then. I have no problem with that.”

Before he could say anything else, she added, “I followed mine, too.

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