Perfect Match: Enemies to Lovers Romance by Leia Stone

Author:Leia Stone [Stone, Leia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

Ashton

I never should have brought Millie here. What was I thinking? Now she was going to sleep in the guest house, the same place I’d snuck countless girls into during my senior year of high school. It was weird and I wanted her to leave. Mostly because she was getting along so well with my family and it made me uncomfortable. It reminded me of when Jenna was alive. Having a female, having someone who called me on my shit … Jenna did that.

After feeding the chickens, I sucked down another cigarette, but halfway through I kept replaying what Millie had said when she asked me to stop smoking. The passion and care in her voice. No one had cared about me like that in a long time. I didn’t like it. I didn’t want it. Getting too close to someone meant I could get hurt, and I literally wasn’t sure I could handle another heartbreak.

Tossing the cigarette on the ground, I smashed it with my boot just as my phone alarm went off.

Fuck.

My anti-rejection meds were in the truck, which was in the shop. Oh well, one day wouldn’t matter. I’d missed a day before. The fact that I was so casual about smoking and missing my meds scared me a little. Did I want to die? If I was being honest with myself…

“Cake is ready,” Millie’s voice called behind me and I jumped. When I turned and saw her standing in the doorway, hair fallen over one shoulder, short sundress blowing in the wind, it was like someone punched me in the gut.

I fucking liked her. Somewhere along the way, even with all the insults and annoying behavior, she’d grown on me. She was a stubborn-ass persistent woman and knowing she had gone through loss like I did … it made us the same, and that scared me the most.

I nodded and she turned to leave before catching herself. “Look, I don’t want to stay when you clearly don’t want me here, so after cake I’m gonna sneak out and call a cab. Your Gran will understand, right?”

Damn, I’d made her feel so unwelcome she was willing to take a two hour cab. That would be over a hundred dollars. What was I doing? I was raised better than this.

“No, she won’t. You promised her breakfast, and I’m looking forward to whatever you cook up.” I rubbed my belly and a small smile graced her lips.

“You sure?”

I nodded. “I’d like you to stay … I just, I’m not used to people…” Fuck, what was I trying to say?

“It’s fine.” She saved me before I could mumble random shit.

With that we walked in silence across the farm and into the kitchen. We sang for Gran, we ate cake, we told stories. Slowly but surely, I was getting to know this woman, and I liked what I saw. She was kind, respectful to her elders, but there was a fire in her, and God help you if you crossed her. She was passionate about what she believed in, and that’s what I liked the most about her.

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