Primrose Lane by Debbie Mason

Author:Debbie Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2017-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Liv had been serious. If Finn agreed to marry her and stay with her for eighteen months—Stanley had stuck his legal-eagle nose in and added the extra six—she’d pay him one million dollars. One million dollars to do with as he pleased. Finn had walked out of Dr. Bishop’s office to see his patient with the promise that he’d think about it.

For the last five days, that was all he’d done. Think about Liv and George. Had he thought about the million dollars? No, because that just ticked him off. Liv had put him in a difficult position.

Whether she blamed him or not, she could foreseeably lose George because of him. And didn’t that just slay him. Most women would have rightly laid into him for the part he played, but not Liv. She was kind and sweet and understanding, and she couldn’t lose George. She’d already lost too much. And George? She was thriving now, happy and settled. He couldn’t handle the thought of her being taken from Liv. What it would do to the both of them.

So where did that leave him? Stuck in the middle of yes and a definite no. He didn’t want to stay in Harmony Harbor for more than a year. He wanted to go back and work in the Congo where what he did actually made a difference. Some of his patients at the clinic might argue that he was making a difference in their lives, but it wasn’t the same. He needed the adrenaline rush, the adventure, to test his skills, his boundaries. He needed to be a hero like his brothers.

What he didn’t need was to be married to a woman he admired and respected and lusted after…He released an irritated breath at the thought. It wasn’t like he lusted after her all the time. Just every once in a while. Like when she wore her classy, expensive clothes and her hair in the sleek knot and her lips were painted cherry red and…Fine, he pretty much lusted after her all the time. Now that he thought about it, that was way worse. Because as much as like could turn to love, so could lust. He both liked and lusted after Liv.

Then there was George. He couldn’t play the role of adoptive father to a little girl he could easily love. And there was his answer. He was avoiding Liv because he didn’t want to tell her he couldn’t do it. Whatever else she needed from him, he’d do. He’d lie on the stand. He’d give her what money he had. But he would not, could not, put himself in the position where he might fall in love with Olivia Davenport.

“Hey, son, glad you made it,” said his dad, who was leaning against Ladder Engine 1 when Finn walked up beside him on Main Street.

“I didn’t have a choice. Griff and Liam are whipped. They threatened to carry me in the parade if I didn’t come.” The parade was part of an annual festival in Harmony Harbor honoring the patron saint of fishermen, St.

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