Her Amish Holiday Suitor by Carrie Lighte

Author:Carrie Lighte
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-07-10T15:21:42+00:00

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Nick could hardly wait to take Lucy to the soup kitchen. It felt like forever since he’d seen her. Since he’d kissed her. If only someone else needed convincing they were really a couple... He shook his head. Was he really that pathetic he’d daydream about excuses to steal another fake kiss from Lucy instead of being brave enough to ask if she’d ever allow him an authentic one? The answer, sadly, was yes. His courtship—and his kiss—with Lucy might have been contrived, but they were better than nothing. Which was exactly what he’d be left with if Lucy turned down his proposal to become her suitor for real.

“I heard you were really putting on a show with Lucy at the singing last night,” Kevin remarked on Monday as they stacked bags of deicing material in a bin by the door before the store opened. Supposedly, snow was on its way, and their customers would need to treat their driveways and sidewalks.

Regardless of the public nature of his kiss with Lucy, Nick resented his brother’s intrusive remark so he ignored it entirely.

“It can’t be easy, pretending to like her. I just want you to know how much I appreciate what you’re doing for me,” Kevin added in a rare display of gratitude.

“It’s not a problem. I like spending time with Lucy,” Nick said, suddenly defensive. “She’s...she’s different than most women I’ve courted.”

“You can say that again,” Kevin said.

Now Nick was even more irked. “What exactly does that mean anyway?”

“Well, Lucy’s sort of plain. She’d kind of, you know, dull.”

“That just goes to show how little you know her,” Nick said. “And how little you know about the other women I’ve courted. All that external facade, the animated conversations, the flirty gestures, the exaggerated giggling—that gets boring pretty quickly.” Nick was articulating feelings he hadn’t fully realized he had.

Kevin cocked his head. “All right, fess up. Are you and Lucy really a couple now or what?”

“Of course not. What makes you say that?”

“From the way you’re talking about her. And from what Melinda described—”

“Melinda has big mouth and so do you, so you’d better shut it before you stick your foot in it.”

“Okay, okay,” Kevin said, holding his hands up. “How long until you’re done with the cabin anyway?”

If Nick wanted to, he could finish up in about three more nights. But he didn’t want to. “I’ve got a little sanding left to do. A couple more pieces of paneling to get right before I hang them. And of course there’s the cleanup. I accidentally scuffed up the floor in a few places when I was moving furniture around, so I’ll want to buff that, too.”

“I know how to do those things. I could take over and you could tend the store at night.”

Nick panicked. It was true; Kevin could handle those tasks on his own. “Neh, I started the project, I’ll finish it.”

“Because you want to spend more time with Lucy?”

“Because I don’t trust you to get the job done.

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