Until There Was You (Starlight Hill Series Book 3) by Heatherly Bell

Author:Heatherly Bell [Bell, Heatherly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heatherly Bell Books
Published: 2015-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Genevieve never opened the bakery on a Sunday, and this was a good thing because now that she wasn’t going to spend the day rolling around in bed with the single most handsome man on the face of the earth, she had plenty of time to go kick her brother’s ass.

A couple of hours later, Gen knocked on the door to her brother’s living quarters in the back of the small county airport where he both lived and worked.

She heard him rustling around inside and knocked again. Louder.

“For the love of God, stop the noise. I’m coming.” He opened the door, looking like a casualty of war. The Tequila Wars. “Are you trying to knock the door down?”

“Bite me, Joe,” she shouted.

He winced. “Yeah, I’m guessing this has something to do with you and Wallace. So come on in.”

“Rough night?” she asked. “Your face looks fine.”

“My face?” He walked to the refrigerator, and pulled out a carton of orange juice.

She jammed her hands on her hips. “Wallace had a shiner this morning. Black and blue.”

“I vaguely remember that and he deserved it.”

“He deserved it? You appointed yourself judge and jury, did you?”

Joe took a swig of juice directly from the carton and set it down. “I asked him to look after you, and he took liberties.”

“He told you that?”

Joe slowly shook his head. “He didn’t have to. I saw it in his eyes. I guessed. He’s my best friend, remember?”

“Did you maybe think I had a say in this?”

Joe pointed to her. “He shouldn’t have taken advantage of you. It wasn’t honorable.”

“Oh, please spare me all your honor crap. If anyone took advantage, it was me.”

Joe put his hands over his ears. “Shit! Stop!”

“Wallace and I are two consenting adults,” she shouted.

“If he wanted to date you, he should have cleared it with me first.” Joe put his hands down.

“No Joe, he didn’t need to do that. I’m a grown woman and you’re going to stop interfering in my life. Why do you think I had to leave the state to be married? Could it be because no one I ever dated was good enough for you?”

“Don’t put that on me! You married a guy you didn’t even know, because he looked like Wallace. Does that make a whole lot of sense to you?”

Leave it to Joe to hit her where it hurt. Buckets. “I made a mistake. But I learned my lesson. I’m never settling again.”

Joe slumped down on his couch. “You think you know Wallace, but you don’t. You have this dream in your head of this perfect guy. Do you think maybe you’ve idealized him a little? He’s not perfect, you know. Did you ever once to stop to think that’s not fair to him?”

“No, I—”

Joe held up a hand. “No one man can be everything for a woman. And you picked Wallace, the one guy who feels like he has the responsibility of the entire world on his shoulders. The one guy who would never want to let you down.

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