When I Fall in Love by Susan May Warren

Author:Susan May Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / Romance, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
ISBN: 9781414396170
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2014-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

OKAY. FINE. She could admit it.

Grace was in love with Maxwell Sharpe. She’d probably fallen for him on the airplane ride over the ocean, when he’d practically helped hold her barf bag. Definitely when he shoved his foot into her door and forced her to escape from her hotel room and raised her meager expectations of this trip. But it had only been cemented when he’d helped her believe she was capable of more than she’d ever dreamed.

Like snorkeling. Parasailing. Surfing.

Being a finalist in Honolulu Chop.

When Palani had uncovered the Twinkies’ plate during today’s main course round, leaving only the hippies and Max and Grace to compete in the dessert finale, Grace simply had no words.

No words except I love you, Max.

She wanted to grab his beautiful face with both hands, look him straight in those hypnotizing brown eyes, and blurt it out.

Maybe even kiss him. Oh, she’d thought about it—a lot, in fact. What it might feel like to be in his arms—really be there, not just by chance, but because he wanted her.

Sometimes she thought she saw it in his eyes too. A flicker of desire that broke free from wherever he tamped down his emotions. That was about when he turned away, cracked a joke, or announced they would do something adventurous.

It made her wonder if his words at Pearl Harbor weren’t hypothetical, but rather a sort of cryptic message. Which felt weird because what did he mean, if you knew someone was going to die? Max wasn’t dying—one look at the man shouted the contrary.

She leaned back on her hands on the cushion of her towel in the sand, watching as he paddled hard with a wave, caught it, and stood, riding the angle to the shore. Water glistened off his hard-packed body, the ripples in his stomach, his sculpted shoulders. He wore sky-blue trunks, and against the twilight blue of the sky and the ocean, he looked like a man made for the sea.

Hard to believe he spent nine months of the year on ice.

She couldn’t think about that—about leaving. Four days until her vacation was over, and how did anyone expect her to return to her mundane, pizza-tossing life after the exhilaration of Hawaii? Of Honolulu Chop? Of Max?

Maybe she didn’t have to. Maybe . . . maybe if she told him how she felt, it would unlock whatever trapped him, whatever kept him from unleashing his own feelings. After all, he carried the deep pain of losing his father. Maybe he was simply afraid of losing again.

If she let go of her heart, handed him a piece of it, maybe that would be enough for him to give her a piece back.

Then what? They continued their relationship in Minnesota?

She watched him tumble into the surf, emerge, grab his board, and paddle out again. She’d begged out of today’s surfing, wanting to give him time to surf on his own. Not that he’d complained, but after today’s competition, Keoni had come up to her

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