Road Trip With the Best Man by Pembroke Sophie

Author:Pembroke, Sophie [Pembroke, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adult, Harlequin - Romance, Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9781335135186
Amazon: 1335135189
Goodreads: 37581681
Publisher: Harlequin Romance Larger Print
Published: 2018-06-01T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

THERE WAS SOMETHING up with Dawn and, whatever it was, Cooper didn’t like it.

She’d been quiet when she’d come back from the time capsule, and hadn’t even objected to grabbing lunch from a drive-through to eat on the way to Des Moines. After they’d found a hotel that evening—which he’d put on his card without even thinking about it—he’d suggested dinner, but she’d declined, saying she needed some time to herself.

In Cooper’s experience, that never boded well.

He’d spent the evening eating room service, avoiding the mini-bar and watching bad sci-fi movies, all while obsessing over exactly which part of what he’d said by that stupid pyramid had upset her. And, more pertinently, why he cared.

The thing was, he’d lashed out when it wasn’t even her fault. He knew himself well enough to admit that talking about his ex-wife, and his abject failure of a marriage, put him in a lousy mood.

But what he couldn’t tell was whether she’d been more upset at the suggestion that Justin jilting her at the altar was a good thing, or her realisation that he might be right.

Because he was right. He’d seen it in her eyes, however fast she’d tried to look away, and as much as she’d been avoiding meeting his gaze ever since.

Justin needed a wife who could play the part, like their mother had all these years. But Dawn wasn’t interested in any of that.

Which led him back to his initial question—why did Justin think Dawn had been after their money? Because, as far as Cooper could tell, she wanted the perfect, romantic, true-love marriage her parents had, whether it meant being poor for life or richer than she could imagine.

And that thought just made his head hurt even more than yesterday’s hangover had.

He’d hoped that the weirdness of the time capsule, and their conversations the day before, would have passed by the morning. But when Dawn met him in the hotel lobby she was still quiet, and didn’t even question his suggestion of doughnuts for breakfast again.

Yeah, he really didn’t like this.

‘I thought we’d stop for lunch around Walcott, Iowa,’ he said, once they’d finished off the doughnuts. It was strange, he realised suddenly, how much of their day revolved around meals on this trip. Usually, he’d forget to eat at least one meal a day unless he was meeting with clients at a restaurant, or his assistant brought him something. Even then, he rarely really tasted them, distracted as he was by whatever he was working on while he ate. But on the road with Dawn he’d savoured pancakes, doughnuts, burgers, milkshakes, steaks and all sorts, and had enjoyed every mouthful.

Maybe it was the company.

No, he wasn’t thinking that way. Even if he’d stayed up half the night, after the last movie had finished, with a sudden urge to put together a list of bizarre roadside attractions for them to stop off at during the rest of their journey. He’d told himself he was just being practical,

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