The Bachelor Takes a Wife by Jackie Merritt

Author:Jackie Merritt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2002-02-21T23:00:00+00:00

Eight

After dropping Andrea off, the drive home didn’t take long, nor was there much traffic. That was a relief, as Keith couldn’t keep his mind on the road no matter what he did. This night’s events were burned into his brain, all but blurring his vision, certainly making concentration on anything else particularly difficult. The physical effects he felt were surprising and confusing. After such incredible lovemaking he should be relaxed and serenely happy, and instead he felt tight as a drum.

After driving Andrea to her home from the park, he’d asked to go in with her. She had stammered out a few words, “No…please…not tonight,” and he’d experienced the strangest rush of relief. That was something to wonder about: Why in heaven’s name would he be relieved over Andrea’s haste to end an absolute dream of an evening?

Keith’s eyebrows nearly met in a troubled frown. There was something terribly wrong in his attitude at the moment, but what was it? Certainly he wasn’t afraid of serious involvement, was he? For days he’d done everything but stand on his head to capture Andrea’s notice, to regain her attention, to make her see him as she once had, and he’d succeeded, too, or they never would have made love. And now, when everything seemed to be going his way, he was fearful?

“Preposterous,” he muttered. Hitting the remote control that opened the iron gate securing his driveway, he drove in, pushed another button and opened one of the four doors on his garage. He walked into his house with a scowl on his face, for he didn’t like the direction of either his feelings or his thoughts.

His relationship with Andrea was different from any other. Vastly different from that he’d had with his ex and those he’d had with women he’d dated before and after his marriage. Actually, he hardly remembered them; they simply hadn’t been important. He respected women but…but he loved Andrea!

That was the crux of his startling misery, he realized in one fell, rather shocking swoop: he was totally, madly and almost painfully in love with Andrea. He’d suspected it before, but there were miles of variances, discrepancies and disparities between suspecting something and knowing it for fact. Doubts and what-ifs had flown the coop, completely deserting him. He was on his own now, a man who had fervently pursued one very special woman, had reached the finish line and was now in a sweat over what to do next.

He didn’t understand himself and it was a foreign, discomfiting sensation. What he needed was some time to sort through this whole thing, to figure out what was really going on in the pit of his stomach and to come up with some answers.

Instead of going to bed, Keith wrote a note for Gabriella, phoned Sebastian to tell him that he wouldn’t be at tomorrow morning’s meeting and where he’d be if he was truly needed, packed a bag with some changes of clothing, then carried it and his briefcase out to the garage.

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