Harlequin Desire March 2016, Box Set 1 of 2 by Andrea Laurence

Author:Andrea Laurence
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460395035
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Five months later

His brother was married.

Sean was having a hard time getting his head around it, but facts were facts. Jenny Marshall was now Jenny Ryan—a new bride and pregnant with their first child. The baby had been a surprise and had really knocked Mike off his game for a while. But he’d come around, worked out his own issues and finally realized in time that Jenny was the only woman for him.

The Balboa Pavilion was the perfect spot for a summer wedding, too. He glanced around at the stately old Victorian, with its wide view of Newport Bay and the hundreds of pleasure crafts lining the docks. The dance floor was gleaming beneath thousands of tiny white lights and beyond the glass walls, a summer moon shone down on it all as if in celebration.

Sean’s gaze shifted back to where his brother and Jenny were dancing, holding each other as if they were the only two people in the world. Times change, Sean told himself as he leaned negligently against a wall. Not too long ago, Mike and Jenny had been at each other’s throats. Now they were pledging eternal love and about to be parents. Speaking of parents... Sean turned his head to look at his own folks. Jack and Peggy Ryan looked as happy as he’d ever seen them. He frowned thoughtfully and took a sip of the aged Scotch in his hand.

His parents’ marriage had always seemed pretty damn perfect to Sean. It was only recently that he’d learned what Mike had discovered at the tender age of thirteen—that parents were people who made mistakes. It still didn’t sit well with him that Mike had kept the secret of the trouble in their parents’ marriage to himself for so many years. But on the other hand, Sean mused as he watched his mom lean her head on his dad’s shoulder, Sean had secrets of his own.

He’d never actually lied to the family about anything, but he’d never told them everything, either. So he really wasn’t in a position to complain too loud or too long.

But this wasn’t the time to think about the past. This was about Mike and Jenny, who had somehow gone from antagonism to the kind of love most people never knew.

Naturally, thinking about antagonists brought him around to thoughts of Kate. But to be honest, his mind was always ready to dredge up Kate’s image. Five months and he could still smell her. Taste her. Her face swam in his mind every night when he tried to sleep. It wasn’t getting better. If anything, his brain seemed to be working overtime reminding him about Kate, as if to ensure he didn’t forget.

As if he could. Memories of their days and nights together kept his body at a slow burn constantly. Maybe, he told himself, it was time to go back to Wyoming. Check on the hotel’s progress in person rather than reading about it in faxed reports and sterile emails.

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