Rodeo Dad by Cassidy Carla

Author:Cassidy, Carla [Cassidy, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-24T01:37:42+00:00

“Frank Lambino.”

Marissa gripped the phone receiver more tightly against her ear. “Pardon me?”

“Frank Lambino. He’s a good friend of Derek’s, and he’s your date for the night,” Lucy explained. “Derek says he’s a good-looking Italian who is looking for Ms. Right.”

Nerves fluttered in Marissa’s stomach. The thought of a real date was frightening...the idea of a blind date was terrifying. “Maybe you should call Derek and—”

“Don’t even say it,” Lucy jumped in before Marissa could finish the sentence. “I’m not about to cancel for you. You asked me to find you a date, and I did. You told me there’s no way you and Johnny have anything going on, Benjamin isn’t a baby anymore and it’s high time you enjoyed an adult evening in the company of a handsome male.”

“Okay, you’re right.” Marissa drew a deep breath, hoping to still her fluttering tummy.

“Of course I’m right. We’ll be there to pick you up around six-thirty, okay?”

“Okay,” Marissa agreed, feeling as if she’d just conceded to oral surgery.

“And, Marissa..try to work up some enthusiasm between now and then.” With those words Lucy hung up.

Enthusiasm. It was difficult to fit any in around the dread that coursed through Marissa’s mind. It wasn’t until late in the afternoon, as she took a long, liberating bubble bath, that the dread began to ebb and a hint of anticipation appeared.

She lay back in soothingly warm water, the scent of exotic flowers drifting upward from the bubbles that surrounded her. Lucy was right. It was high time she indulged herself in an evening where her male companion didn’t call her “mom.”

She was almost twenty-nine years old, and there were nights she ached to be held in strong arms, days when she wanted a man who would share her laughter, dry her tears.

It was time she admitted she was a healthy, normal woman who was lonely, a woman who had put her own personal needs on hold for too long.

Closing her eyes, she tried to conjure up a picture of what Frank Lambino might look like. Lucy had said he was a handsome Italian. He’d probably have dark, almost black hair and skin a deep, rich hue And his eyes would be the intense blue of a gas flame. She frowned, realizing that her mental picture was not of a man she might meet, but rather one of a man she knew intimately. Johnny.

Dammit, why couldn’t she get him out of her head? Why did it seem that he invaded all parts of her? He found his way into her dreams, crept into her fantasies at unguarded moments, and stole into her thoughts no matter how she tried to keep him out.

It was time to cast him away. She knew there was no way he would ever really belong to her. It was time for her to put the memories of her first love aside, to make room for a lasting love in her heart.

Tonight was a perfect time to begin looking for what so many other women her age had found.

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