One Kind Heart by Christine DePetrillo

Author:Christine DePetrillo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vermont, small town contemporary romance, nature, happily ever after, humor, woods
Publisher: Christine DePetrillo
Published: 2019-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The drive to the restaurant was hell. Of course Dena had all the getting-to-know-you questions ready to ask Carter and Leah, making Leah hold her breath each time she fired one off. Without Dena and Dakota knowing the true history between Carter and herself, real answers couldn’t be provided. She almost told Dakota to pull his truck over to the side of the road so she could unload the story.

But that was no way to begin a date night. It wasn’t the way to end one either. She was fairly certain that after she told Dakota about Chase, it would totally kill any romantic buzz they managed to generate during dinner.

And despite her worry over what Dena was asking them and thinking of ways to evade her inquiries, a romantic buzz still vibrated through Leah as she sat beside Dakota in the front seat of his truck. Why did the console between them have to be a mile wide? She was having a hard time not crawling over the medley of cup holders to position herself in his lap. Being in his lap was strangely comforting. It shouldn’t have been, but she felt as if she belonged there. His thighs provided solid ground beneath her and it’d been a long time since she’d been on solid ground. Each step had always felt as if she were about to fall into a deep, dark hole with no hope of escape. That feeling was fading the longer she stayed in Maplehaven.

The longer she hung around Dakota.

“You just have to give video games a chance,” Carter said.

“She has,” Dakota said. “She sucks at them.”

Dena’s hand hit the back of Dakota’s head. “Shut up. I’m good at plenty of other things.”

“Note how she does not deny that she sucks at video games.” Dakota ducked his sister’s next slap.

“Maybe you haven’t had the right coach,” Carter said. “Someone who knows the inner workings of the games. Intimately.”

Leah had to stifle her laugh. She’d seen Carter work it with the ladies before, but for some reason, he had never seemed so clichéd in the past. She shot a quick glance to Dakota, his strong profile illuminated intermittently by the headlights of passing cars. She never felt as if he were feeding her a premeditated line. Every attempt he’d made at asking her out and flirting had appeared to come from his... well, his heart.

What was I saying about clichés?

“Hey.” Dakota’s elbow gently nudged hers on the console. “You okay?”

“Yeah. Why?”

“You’re quiet.”

“Is that your way of saying that usually I talk too much?” She poked him in the bicep. A bicep covered in a dark green button-down shirt that made those sea-glass eyes a deeper, more enchanting shade. When he’d appeared at her front door in that shirt—the sleeves pulled up a bit again to tease her with that damn tattoo—a pair of black dress pants and black dress shoes, she nearly groaned aloud. She’d loved his outdoorsy adventure-guy look, but spiffy Dakota was quite the sight as well.

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