Start Me Up by Nicole Michaels

Author:Nicole Michaels [Michaels, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9781466862227
Amazon: B00MLNBIAA
Barnesnoble: B00MLNBIAA
Goodreads: 22892311
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

The rest of the weekend had come and gone, it was now Monday and Anne hadn’t heard from Mike. It was killing her. For something that she’d wanted to keep easy, it was taking over all her thoughts. This was far from no-strings-attached because all of her strings were pulled tight and begging for Mike.

She’d spent the morning sitting on the couch with her laptop loading some photos from Pie Days, typing up a blog post about the small town and the crafts she’d seen there and the cute little pub that carried bottled beer from local towns. Her followers loved stuff like this; within five minutes she had thirty-two comments. She smiled and closed her laptop, only to stare out the front window. Thinking. More thinking. Wasn’t that exactly what she’d told him she needed to do? Maybe he was waiting for her to contact him.

Clearly she was far from ready for a relationship; she was a mess. I want to know you. His words kept repeating in her head. Why did she feel the need to keep things surface with him? She should share her passion for the blog and her work, let him know how successful they were. It wasn’t something to be ashamed of. It was on a public medium, yet … it felt like revealing something personal and private. It felt like he would know everything about her, have any reason at his disposal to find her lacking, judge her, and end things altogether. And now telling him could be weird because she hadn’t been entirely up front about it from the beginning. She almost just wished he already knew, but it was no surprise that a hot young guy didn’t peruse the Home and Hobby section of the Sunday newspaper or read lifestyle blogs online.

She knew what people typed into a search engine that landed them on her blog. Things like “DIY princess party,” “how to make paper flowers,” or “easy desserts.” Men didn’t read her blog, well, at least not men like Mike Everett.

“Grandma Ree’s here.” Claire came bounding down the stairs. “I saw her from my window.”

“What?” Anne stood up and glanced out to the driveway. Sure enough, her mother’s sedan was sitting there. Anne went to the front door and met her mother on the porch.

“Hey, Mom, I didn’t know you were planning on stopping by. You should have called. I could have had lunch prepared.”

“Oh no, honey, I hadn’t planned it, just thought I’d swing by after my doctor appointment.”

“Well we’re glad you did.”

Claire ran to her grandmother and wrapped her arms around her thighs. “Hi, Grandma Ree.”

Anne went to the kitchen to get her mother a glass of tea while she and Claire hugged on the couch. Anne loved how close the two were, and she was grateful that she could give her own daughter the kind of early childhood she’d never had. Those early years were important, they stuck with you even if you couldn’t remember the details you remembered the feeling of being loved.

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