Mail Order Bride for the Scrooge by Ember Davis

Author:Ember Davis [Davis, Ember]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

LAKE

Christmas is two days away and once the holiday comes and goes, I’m going to need to decide what is going to happen next. I’m either going to start the New Year with a husband or I’m going to move on.

Do I have any clue where I’m going to go now that I’ve fallen in love with Jasper Ridge and Gannon? Nope. I don’t have the first fucking clue.

Not only is the stress and anxiety of wanting to talk to Gannon about what is going on between us weighing on me, but I’ve been giving Nico the bare minimum to keep him off my back. I hate not being completely honest with my brother. This is the first time in my life that I haven’t been, and it feels like I’m fighting against quicksand with how emotional it makes me.

I know Nico would tell me to go home to Seattle, but the more days I’ve spent in Jasper Ridge, the less Seattle feels like home. I know I can’t go back. I don’t want to.

I want to stay here, but I don’t know if it’s possible.

Don’t get me wrong, being with Gannon blows my mind every time. Not just the sex either, but the small ways he takes care of me. The way he listens to me like he’s really hearing me. The possessive look in his eye whenever I catch him staring at me.

And I catch him doing it a lot.

It all adds up to a man that I think wants me, but we haven’t talked about what happens next.

I’m afraid to bring it up. What if the thought of marriage freaks him out and he tells me to go? It would break my heart.

What if all the things he’s said about knocking me up or about me being his have been said in the heat of the moment? If that’s the case, I’ll need to find my own mountain to isolate myself on because I won’t be able to face the world as I know it.

But none of the things he’s said to me felt like just words. They felt very real.

I just don’t know what to do with it all. How do I find a way forward if we keep dancing around the conversation? That elephant in the corner is fucking huge at this point and I can’t ignore him anymore.

My time in Jasper Ridge has changed my life, but if this is only a glimpse at a future and not one that I can hold onto, I want to know it sooner rather than later. I’m already gone for the man; that ship has sailed and almost circumnavigated the globe at this point. It would kill me to find out the rug is going to be pulled from underneath me and I’m only going to fall deeper if I’m not careful.

I might be able to recover at this point. I’ll have to go into hiding and lick my wounds, but I could do it. If

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