Runaway Groom by Sally Clements

Author:Sally Clements [Clements, Sally]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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ISBN: 9781489530325
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The foundations of April’s world were rocked to the core by Matthew’s story. She didn’t want to believe June had lied for years, but the emotion in his face hadn’t been faked. For the past week, she’d avoided him while she teased out the truth, running over past conversations with June and Amy in her head. Trying to reconcile this new reality.

She’d sewed all day and most of the night for the past week—the good news was her collection was finished, and she’d started working on June’s dress. The bad news? That from the moment he came into the house she wanted to go to him.

Somehow she’d stopped seeing Matthew as hot-fling-prospect, and connected deeper. He’s shown her a glimpse of his emotions, his past pain, and tangled her feelings for him in the process. She still wanted to jump his bones, but she also wanted to smooth the kinks from his brow.

She didn’t want to care, but she couldn’t avoid the emotions swirling inside.

She’d always seen life in black and white, but now, everything was dove grey, so for the past four nights April had eaten before he got home and had snuck back upstairs to avoid him, leaving his dinner in the oven. He’d followed a familiar routine since then, had come home then gone out running for an hour before eating.

He’d come home over an hour ago, changed, and gone out again. She’d seen him pounding the sidewalk from her garret window.

If he kept to his routine, he should be back soon from his run.

The phone rang.

“Hello?”

“Uh, hi. Is Matthew there?”

April recognized Amy’s voice instantly. “He’s out running.” She pulled in a deep breath. “That’s Amy isn’t it? It’s April.”

“April? April? I never expected to hear your voice at Matthew’s house.”

“I’m staying here. There was a fire at my apartment.”

“I-I’m confused. I thought you hated my brother.”

April bit her lip. She’d broken off all communication with her friend, had refused to consider any truth apart from the one June was selling. “I did.” She sucked in a deep breath. Amy had every right to hate her. Had every reason to tell her to go to hell, but she had to be brave. Had to try to make things right. “I don’t hate him anymore. He told me the truth about him and June. I’m sorry, Amy. I should have listened.”

She heard Amy’s puffed out breath. “I never thought I’d hear you say that.”

“June…”

“She never told you?”

April shook her head, even though Amy couldn’t see the action. “Even now, she’s sticking to her story.”

“I don’t blame you,” Amy’s voice was soft. “If it was just a case of believing my brother rather than June I would have believed him blindly too. But I heard June tell him…”

“I know. He told me.”

The blinkered love she’d always felt for her sister, her refusal to listen to Amy when she’d told her the break-up hadn’t been his fault, churned up feelings that burned deep inside. Just like every other resident of Brookbridge, she’d condemned Matthew without a trial.

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