The Undercover Groom: Bachelor Billionaire Romances by Taylor Hart

Author:Taylor Hart [Hart, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ArchStone Ink
Published: 2017-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Even though they didn’t do it again, Ava had to admit she felt pretty good as she and Nick sat on the back of the Jeep, eating their Subway sandwiches and drinking bottles of water, looking out over Jackson Hole Mountain.

“I will admit that I had this teeny-weeny bit of niggling fear that the parachute wouldn’t open.”

“Trust.” Ava enjoyed echoing the word he’d acted so superior about.

“True. We can trust each other. After all, we are engaged.”

She let out a light laugh. “Oh brother.” Leaning back, she wrapped up the rest of her sandwich and stuck it back in the bag. “Hey, you’re going to give me a complex that you really don’t want to marry me.” The way he said it so casually made her imagine what it would feel like to kiss him. He hadn’t shaved, and he had that perfect stubble going on.

“Aren’t you going to eat any more?” Nick asked quizzically, like her joke had gone right over his head.

“No,” she said. “I’m good.”

“You need the strength. Eat.”

“Hmm.”

“What?”

“Do you have to know everything that’s in my head?” she asked, knowing she wouldn’t tell him.

He grunted. “Sorry.”

“I haven’t felt like eating for, well, for a long time. It’s not that I didn’t want to sometimes, but my stomach hurt. A lot. Nerves, my therapist would say. She encouraged me to eat more, said it would help stabilize my moods if I could keep my blood sugar in check.”

They both sat for a second, and she watched him take a large bite of his meatball sub and shove it into his mouth.

With exaggerated slowness, she opened back up the bag and got her sandwich out, taking another bite.

He grinned at her.

“Shut it.”

They both enjoyed the sunset. It was gorgeous. Blues, oranges, pinks.

Giving her a tentative look, he turned back to the sunset. “Why did you like Hal?”

“What?”

“Initially.”

“Oh.” It felt like it had been so long since she’d thought of Hal in that way.

“You don’t have to tell me.”

“No,” she said, wanting to explain her old feelings. Maybe she needed to talk about them for herself. “Hal was a good pretender. Actually, he is really charismatic to people who don’t know him, or to people he wants to see him in a certain way. It’s pretty awful, but he said all the right things. He became what I wanted, I guess, and then I lost myself in his world and it felt like it was too late to come out. When my aunt passed away, it jolted me from my life. I just knew she wouldn’t want me to live that way. I … at her funeral, I swear I felt my parents there. Everything that the minister said about my aunt’s life, how good it was, how much she gave to others … I just wanted to be that, ya know?”

“That’s why you finished your nursing degree.”

“Yeah. I like the feeling of seeing someone come in with a lot of injuries and leave perfectly healthy. I mean, it’s

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