The Wanted Bride (A Contemporary Romance) by Sylvia McDaniel

Author:Sylvia McDaniel [McDaniel, Sylvia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Virtual Bookseller
Published: 2014-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

A week later, Matt drove the Jeep, his brain on autopilot as he mulled over the dilemma with Valerie. Frustration gripped him like a fist about his throat. How many women would settle for just a hookup?

Today while Valerie worked at the café, he would visit McKenzie and get her opinion on the bizarre way Valerie had responded. In the past week he had avoided his own office and the café. He had even taken a trip to Denver to put some distance between him and the blonde who had gotten under his skin. Anywhere, while his anger simmered and cooled.

It disturbed him that he’d finally found someone who intrigued him, someone he wanted to explore a relationship with, and every time he made a move, she threw up a roadblock. If the attraction wasn’t mutual, he would have walked away, but she responded to him. Whenever he touched her, passion reflected from her blue eyes, and she quivered in his arms. Clearly she was caught off guard by the attraction, yet she refused to acknowledge the magnetism simmering between them.

And frankly, that pissed him off.

The Jeep came to a halt in front of his sister’s log home. He watched McKenzie and the twins playing outside in the cold sunshine. Bundled in their winter jumpers, the kids waddled around like fat little penguins.

McKenzie chased the toddlers through the snow, tossing a snowball at them. Ashley and Austin squealed with laughter, and Matt felt sad that his brother-in-law was not here to witness his children’s giggles.

John’s death had been tough on his sister, yet Matt envied her life. Not the death of her husband, but the love he’d witnessed between them and now the twins.

Clearly John’s death had shown Matt that life was short, and he wanted to experience a lasting love with a family of his own.

Not the marriage of his parents, in which deception, lies, and hate permeated the relationship like a cancer until its death.

The single lifestyle had left him with enough cell numbers to fill a phone book, more boring dates than he cared to remember, and an ever-present loneliness. He didn’t want his bed to be a revolving door of meaningless hookups. He longed for a woman who’d stay through the good times and the bad. A best friend and a lover. A love that lasted beyond the next morning. And it all began with Valerie giving them the opportunity to explore this attraction.

All he wanted was a chance to see if this fascination was something they could build on.

He jumped out of the Jeep, and his sister turned around and waved. “Hey you, come in and have some hot chocolate.”

“Sure,” he said as he ran through the snow toward the twins.

“Uncle Matt!” Ashley cried, hurrying toward him, her short little legs stumbling in the deep snow.

He picked her up and twirled her in the air. She screamed with delight.

“Me too, Uncle Matt. Me too,” Austin cried, wrapping his arms around Matt’s leg.

He set Ashley down, picked-up Austin and twirled him.

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