The Troublemaker by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-08-31T18:45:12+00:00

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THIS HAD BEEN his purpose in coming here. Because he had realized with stunning clarity after their lips had met earlier today, that this was the right thing.

This was what he wanted. Charity was the woman that he wanted to marry. He couldn’t imagine spending the rest of his life with anyone else, partly because he couldn’t imagine rearranging his life so that she took a secondary role in it. He couldn’t imagine putting another woman in front of her. And the simple truth was he wanted her. He always had.

All it had taken was one moment to let that desire loose, to let it free, and it had been clear. Everything had been.

She was already his best friend. She made him feel soothed.

Yeah, there was...stuff about him, about his life, that he’d always tried to protect her from, but he could do that. She made him better.

She was what he wanted.

“This is why you want to marry me?” she asked.

“Yes.”

“Lachlan...we...”

“Why not? It makes perfect sense. Why were we going to marry people that we liked less than we like each other?”

As soon as he said it, it all seemed so ridiculous. Because really. Really. Why the hell had either of them been thinking of that? Why had they thought for one second that they would be happier with anyone else? She was his best friend, and wasn’t that the thing? You married your best friend?

“I...”

“I’m changed. I’m reformed. You saw to that,” he said.

“You did not go six months without sex,” she said, trying to sound reproving.

“No. But you went thirty years without it, so I figure that balances out the scales for both of us, doesn’t it?”

“It does not work like that,” she said, her tone frosty, her eyes looking evil all of a sudden.

“Charity,” he said. “I want you. You. Not anyone else.”

“You’ve known me an awfully long time, Lachlan, and you have wanted plenty of other women in between.”

“You got engaged to someone else. You went away to college, you left me and you got engaged to another man.”

“Were you about to get down on one knee back then?”

He huffed a laugh and settled back on the bed. Charity’s bed.

“We should marry each other because we don’t actually want other people. I don’t want to spend my life with another woman. And you don’t want to sleep with him.”

“How do you know that?”

“Because you’re passionate. That was why I came over here. I figured if I came over here and I kissed you, and you told me to leave...then I would let you marry him. I would back off. I would...”

“You would let me marry him?”

“Yes, Charity. I figured if you rejected my kiss I wouldn’t kidnap you, carry you out of whatever church you decided to say your vows in, sling you over my shoulders like a sack of potatoes, and spirit you off to a cabin up in the middle of the mountains where he couldn’t find us. I would’ve done that. I will do that.

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