Tempted by the Billionaire: A Hometown Hero Series Novel

Author:Connelly, Clare [connelly, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-27T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Willow leaned back into the seat, feeling full of food, a little fuzzy around the edges after two beautiful glasses of French wine, and totally, resplendently happy. The sun bounced in through the windscreen, warming her legs, as Matt effortlessly drove them back towards the beach.

“Willow,” he said quietly, and something in his tone made her realise that he was about to say something serious.

She forced herself to look at him, though opening her eyes hurt after such a perfectly relaxing lunch. It was their third picnic lunch. Two weeks had passed in the blink of an eye, and Willow was finding it hard to keep quiet about their relationship. Every time she saw Anna, the confession bubbled on her lips.

Because it wasn’t just sex. And it wasn’t even just dating.

Willow was completely in love with Matt McCain, and she suspected she would be for the rest of her life. But how did he feel about her? It was obvious that he liked her a lot; and that he found her as irresistible as she did him. But what about the future?

He never talked about that. And whenever she made oblique references to events down the track, he was conspicuously silent. Willow, fiercely independent in a post-Ashton world, had begun to hope for a future that was less lonely. For a future with Matt.

And it was crazy! He wasn’t even divorced yet. He’d sure as hell not made any promises to her. And their best friends didn’t even know they were seeing one another.

“What is it?” She prompted, lifting her hand and putting it over his, on the gearstick of the car.

She was so happy. Her contentment hit him like a brick in the solar plexus, because it mirrored his own. What kind of fate had brought him together with a woman like this, at the worst time in his life? His divorce, and his commitment to McCain Industries… he’d had no business getting so tied up with another woman. Especially not someone as unique as Willow. His bright blue eyes seemed to spear through her, before he turned back to the road. “I’ve had a great few weeks with you.”

“Two,” she corrected, thinking of the first time they’d made love. “Two weeks.” They’d been so swept up in passion that they hadn’t even used protection. An incredibly stupid thing for either to have done; something they’d both taken care of subsequently. The way she’d felt that night – she still shuddered to recall the overpowering need that had moved within her.

“Right.”

Something in his tone sent a whisper of unease breezing across her body. “What is it, Matt?”

Two weeks of dinners, walks on the beach, laughing until his sides split. Teaching her to fish and not squirm at the wriggling live bait he used. Even reading her books had given him a whole new level of understanding of just what made that magnificent mind of hers tick. The idea of walking away not just from Willow, but from the whole of his life here with her in Haymarket Bay was unpalatable in the extreme.

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