The Doctor's Fake Fiancee by Victoria James

Author:Victoria James
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub
Tags: category romance;clean romance;fake relationship;doctor;small town romance;fake engagement;boss-employee romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Bliss)
Published: 2014-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Evan squinted, tilting his glass so he could peer inside carefully. Dammit. Not an ounce of vodka left between the ice cubes. He let out a sigh, placing it back on the table with a thud a little too loud to be polite and looked around. No one had noticed. Then again, it was Eunice Jacobs’s wedding, not a black-tie event. Could anyone hear a thing above the sound of that wretched conga line anyway?

Family. They filled the entire circular table he was seated at. His brothers appeared ridiculously happy, bordering on the idiotic in his opinion. And their wives, lovely of course, but again, a little on the nauseatingly happy side. Not that he begrudged them their happiness. Hell, no one was more deserving than them. Even their kids were happy: little Michael was sound asleep in his stroller beside their table, and Ella and Chris were rounding the corner in the conga line.

“Evan, why do you look like you’re going to hurl?”

He scowled in the general direction of his brother, Jake.

“Everybody move back. Evan’s had five martinis in the last two hours—”

“I did not. I was just wondering how I end up attending a wedding with you people almost every year?” Actually, he was wondering where the hell Grace had disappeared to now. All night she’d been avoiding him. And he could bet it was because of their hot-as-hell kiss last night. He hadn’t been able to get enough of her. That was a problem. The only reason he’d broken off the kiss was because it had finally occurred to him they were on a public street, and the things he wanted to do with Grace weren’t exactly acceptable in public. But when he finally managed to pull away, the emotion in her eyes had rattled him. He had told himself that he only wanted to comfort her, but he was a lying bastard. Because comfort didn’t extend to spending the night in bed with Grace—which was exactly what he’d wanted to do.

But of course he’d pulled away, even though it had taken more self-control than he knew he possessed. Her lips had been swollen, her eyes filled with passion, and it had taken her a moment to regain her balance. She was sexy as hell. And off-limits.

He didn’t know what they were going to do about that problem.

“Maybe the next wedding we attend will be yours,” his sister-in-law Holly said with a wink.

He let out a choked cough. “Don’t think so, Holly.”

Dinner was winding down, and the newlyweds had already finished their first dance—a lively flamenco that had everyone on their feet clapping when it was over. He looked across the flower-and-candle-filled table at his brothers and their wives. It amazed him how perfect they seemed for one another. Like they fit together. The kind of stuff you saw in movies. The kind of relationships that he never really thought existed.

“You know, I think they make a sweet couple,” Claire said, and everyone at their table turned to stare at her.

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