Navy SEAL's Match by Amber Leigh Williams

Author:Amber Leigh Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-31T20:03:08+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

“ARE YOU SURE we should be doing this?” Mavis asked as she and Gavin approached the farmhouse the following Sunday. Prometheus trotted ahead of them on the familiar path. A frisson of disquiet skated up her spine. Her family was inside, most likely with Harmony and Bea.

“Not getting cold feet, are you, Frexy?” Gavin wondered.

Mavis didn’t want Gavin knowing how close he was to the truth so she gave his hand a squeeze. He’d hung his ball cap on her head somewhere along the drive from the river. She was glad of its shadow right now.

She’d never introduced a guy to her family. Not because she feared the wide-reaching channels of information that branched from the Brackens to Gavin’s family back to the Leightons and others. And not just because her brother was a SEAL who would’ve intimidated any of her past romantic prospects on sight. She hadn’t introduced a man to her family because she’d made a vow not to do so after the painful incident with Aaron Quarters. Its solemnity had been restored after the affair with William Leighton.

So it was simple. She didn’t introduce a man to her parents unless he introduced her to his first.

Gavin had always been good at breaking barriers. The windows of the house loomed. Anybody could have been watching from inside yet Mavis kept her hand in his.

They were really doing this.

Honesty, he’d said. Putting everything on the table so they didn’t have to sneak around the people they respected and loved the most.

Kyle’s absence at the table would make the bombshell slightly less explosive, though repercussions would come swiftly from that department. Harmony’s inability to keep a secret was notorious.

But Mavis knew how to handle her brother. It was only by reminding him that he’d made a move on Gavin’s sister two months ago. Kyle and Harmony’s flirtation had even gone on in secret until Mavis inadvertently walked in on a make-out session.

Her parents... Mavis frowned at the windows. James and Adrian were more of a mystery. She didn’t know how either of them would react. They both liked Gavin. He’d been welcome at the table since their time at the farm began. Despite his bad reputation in school, Adrian had always given him the benefit of the doubt, and James had approached him from a position of understanding. He, too, had been the small-town rabble-rouser once.

Whether they trusted a rabble-rouser with their daughter, Mavis couldn’t be sure.

Plus, there was the important fact that Mavis just wasn’t willing to give away much about her and Gavin’s relationship. She wanted to guard what had grown between them and guard it fiercely.

Whatever was between her and Gavin remained undefined, fragile, and she feared that a hard enough wind—blown from the direction of James, Adrian or Kyle or some correlation of the three—might knock it over before it could gather strength.

She wasn’t ashamed. She was protective. She’d told Gavin her own truth—she wanted this. She wanted him. She wanted however much he could give before he felt he had to move on and find himself.

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