Unstoppable (A Country Roads Novel) by Richard Shannon

Author:Richard, Shannon [Richard, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2013-12-02T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Dinner with the Family

Mel wasn’t sure why she was so damn nervous. She’d brought home guys to meet her parents before—not a lot, but there’d been a few. And she’d never felt as antsy or anxious as she did right at that moment.

“You okay?” Bennett asked.

“Yeah,” she said.

He was watching the road, but he glanced at her for a second. “I can hear your mind turning all the way over here.”

“I’m worried about my mother,” Mel told him.

“Why?”

“Because she tends to say what’s on her mind. And I have more than a small feeling she isn’t going to filter herself around you.”

“So what’s in store for me tonight?”

Our wedding plans, probably. “Uhhh,” Mel said, completely unsure of what to say.

“Oh, come on. Just tell me. Wouldn’t you rather me be prepared than surprised?”

“My mother thinks a lot of you—” Mel began.

“Naturally.”

Mel rolled her eyes at him. “She tends to make things into something before they become something. Or makes them bigger than they are. And this is new, and I’m really worried she’s going to say something to scare you off.”

“Melanie,” he said seriously. He reached across the console to take her hand, lacing his fingers with hers. “There is nothing your mother is going to say that will scare me off.”

“You say that now.”

“I’m serious.” He brought her hand to his mouth and kissed the back of it. “I don’t scare of that easily.”

“Really? Because I remember a certain teddy bear that freaked you out to the point of fleeing my house.”

“Hey, that was different,” he said, sounding mildly offended, as he rested their still-joined hands on the console.

“How?”

“That was me freaking out about something that you’d done, not something that somebody else had done. But I’m cool as a cucumber these days—something you should be, as well.”

“After tonight I’ll be fine.”

Bennett cleared his throat. “About that. I stopped by my parents’ house today, and when I told my mom I was eating over here, she pretty much demanded we have dinner at their place sometime this week. So you free on Thursday?”

“To have dinner with your parents?” she asked, surprised. “Um, yeah.”

Why was that even more terrifying than dinner with her parents?

Bennett let go of her hand as he pulled into her parents’ driveway and put his truck in Park. He turned it off and moved to look at her. It took him about a second to correctly read the plethora of emotions on her face.

“Wasn’t one of the things on your list to not dwell?” he asked her.

“It was to not dwell on things I can’t change.”

“All right, well, we can’t change dinner tonight, and we can’t change dinner on Thursday, so stop overthinking it.”

“I overthink everything.”

“Not always.” He leaned across the console and came in very close to her face. “If I remember correctly, you were a little impulsive on Saturday.”

“Saturday I was very impulsive.”

“Well, just keep calm and think of Saturday,” he told her before he pressed his lips to hers.

She might’ve moaned just a little bit when he nibbled on her lower lip.

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