Taming the Mountain Man by Jeanette Lewis

Author:Jeanette Lewis [Lewis, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

“Who knew Jack Hale was so handsome?” Astrid crowed later when they were in the car on the way home. “I didn’t see it with the grandpa beard, but now … yowza.”

Jennica flashed warm, then cold. The makeover had gone better than she’d ever expected, and Jack had emerged from all that hair to become a certified hottie.

“I hope your cousin doesn’t have any single friends,” Astrid said. She tipped her head to one side and began working her blue hair into a thick twist. “People get sentimental at weddings. Someone might try and steal him from you.”

Jennica bit her lip. “It’s only a fake date,” she said, forcing a note a casualness to her voice that she didn’t feel. “Besides, Jack is too much of a gentleman to ditch me for another girl.”

But then, she’d believed Josh was too much of a gentleman to dump her in the middle of a fancy restaurant. What did she know?

No. Her mind went back to the week she’d had with Jack. He’d given her his jacket and opened doors for her. There was genuine kindness in his eyes when he’d spoken to her grandmother. Plus, he’d spent all day trimming the trees even when he could have had the press merely for the cost of the fake date. Jack wouldn’t ditch her at the wedding.

She dropped Astrid off at home and took her time driving home to Grandma’s. Scenes from the night spun through her mind, like a movie on fast-forward. Jack’s eyes, boring into hers. His shop, so much a part of him. The way he’d put all his trust in Astrid and, by proxy, in her, letting her decide how far to take the makeover. She hadn’t expected him to be so compliant, so willing. Maybe he liked the attention. His house bore an air of loneliness, almost wistfulness, that had made her heart ache.

Or maybe she was reading too much into things and getting melodramatic, the way she always did. It was just a haircut, nothing life-changing.

Yet, as she pulled into the driveway and shut off the engine, Jennica couldn’t shake the feeling that something had shifted and their date for the wedding would be a “make it or break it” moment. Which did she want? She wasn’t sure.

Her mind flashed back to last year when she’d been in Paris. Even at three in the morning, Le Marais had been packed with people, with music, with life. And yet, as much as she enjoyed the adventure, she always loved coming home to the quiet peacefulness of Tamarack Ridge. A place where, like the TV show Cheers, everyone really did know your name—and not only that, they probably knew a whole lot more.

Paris was the City of Love, but she’d been there alone. It wasn’t the first time she’d traveled by herself, and usually it didn’t bother her. She took reasonable precautions and had found there was great fun in the solo exploration of a new city. She’d visited all the tourist locations—the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame Cathedral.

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