Wedding Survivor by Julia London

Author:Julia London [London, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Sixteen

ELI kicked himself all the way home. That kiss was definitely not supposed to have happened, but dammit, she'd looked so mad and cute and oddly vulnerable during her speech that he'd supped.

Okay, all right. He was having a little more trouble than he'd bargained for in keeping his distance from her. Well, sure—she was a very appealing woman. But she wasn't the first appealing woman he'd ever known, and he usually had a little more self-control. Tonight, he'd proven his deepest fears—that he was a complete putz of a man who could be easily sucked in by cute.

Jesus.

Trish never did cute, he had to admit. She used tears to get her way, and it always felt like a sucker punch, because Eli was not the sort of man who dealt very well with a woman's tears. They always made him feel frantic to do something to stop them.

He usually didn't have any trouble when a woman was arguing with him, either, but Marnie, hell—there she was, talking a mile a minute, the fire in her eyes getting brighter and brighter as she tried to cover her disappointment, and he had felt that panic to make her stop. Frantic enough to kiss her. For a really long time.

Long enough to make him ache to be with her again.

Goddammit!

He drove recklessly, screeched to a halt in his drive, walked into his house, and threw his keys at the Mayan bowl where he usually kept them, missing the bowl and hitting the wall instead. He stalked into the kitchen, flung open the fridge, grabbed a beer, and kicked the fridge shut. And then he went out onto the terrace to sit under his trellis and stare glumly at the lights of the valley.

The best thing to do was lay low. He had a little less than two weeks before he and Vince and Olivia and Cooper took off to do the canyoning in the San Juan Mountains. After that, the wedding, and directly after that, thank God, the Amazon trip with the Japanese. He needed the Amazon trip to clear his head and get it on straight.

So three weeks max, and then it was over. Just like that, she'd be history. He could go on with his life, she could go on with hers, and they'd both be a whole lot happier doing it.

Three weeks. He could do three weeks standing on his head. Well… unless she argued. Or cried. Or smiled that big moon smile at him. No, no, he could handle it, he could do this. He was not ready for a relationship, and he really wasn't ready for Marnie, no matter how appealing she was.

Seriously. He wasn't.

He took a swig of beer and absolutely refused to listen to the little voice inside his head telling him he was a big fat coward and a really bad liar.

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