The Bridal Path: Danielle by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods [Woods, Sherryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460345436
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1995-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Maybe. Truthfully, it was more than Dani had had any reason to hope for. Slade hadn’t laughed in her face. He hadn’t flat-out said no, though he’d looked for one interminable minute as if he might.

He’d said maybe. And if she knew almost nothing else about him, she knew that Slade Watkins always meant what he said. He was a man of few words, but he made each and every one count.

She clung to that knowledge all through the night as she cradled the pillow that still carried his wonderfully intriguing, purely masculine scent. She, Dani Wilde, had actually popped the most important question of her life and Slade Watkins had said maybe. It was enough to keep her downright giddy for a month.

But she didn’t have a minute, much less a month to waste. She couldn’t sit back now and hope nature took its course.

No, if Slade was going to be considering her marriage proposal, then she was going to have to do everything in her power to weave some sort of spell he wouldn’t be able to resist. She would have to keep him so off balance, so fascinated with her that marriage would eventually seem as inevitable to him as it did to her.

The trouble was she’d never been much good with playing provocative games or flirting. The stakes had always seemed too high. She was too self-conscious, too vulnerable to risk being rebuffed. Her brazen marriage proposal to Slade had been her first foray into a more daring pattern for her life, and it had scared her practically spitless.

But she’d survived. She’d faced her fear of rejection and overcome it. Now it was on to step two, whatever the heck that was. She hadn’t entirely expected to ever need a step two. She’d been counting on a quick yes or no. Now that she needed a more detailed plan of action, she was at a loss.

Fortunately, she had two sisters who’d never been the least bit shy around men or at a loss about much of anything. Sara had won her husband with that outrageous all-or-nothing bet. Ashley had mistakenly bopped Dillon with a lamp and managed to win his heart anyway. Surely they would be good for some sisterly advice. An easy-to-follow, impossible-to-screw-up list–Five Steps To Catching The Man Of Your Dreams–would be nice, especially if step two was an awe-inspiring, spectacular doozy that would practically eliminate the need for steps three, four and five. She vowed to speak to them on Sunday.

* * *

Of course, getting her two sisters alone during the traditional Sunday family dinner at Three-Stars was almost as complicated as the logistics for staging a military maneuver. Dillon was so disgustingly besotted with his wife that he rarely let her out of his sight for long. Sara had just discovered a more domestic side to her nature. She tended to fuss over the dinner preparations, much to the dismay of their longtime housekeeper, who considered the kitchen to be her domain.

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