The Boyfriend Contract by Victoria James

Author:Victoria James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: City Life Fiction; Romantic Comedy; General Humorous Fiction; Contemporary Women's Fiction; Contemporary Romance Fiction; Clean & Wholesome Romance; American Humorous Fiction; Women's Literary Fiction; Women's Short Stories; RomCom; Small town Romance; Sweet Romance; Heartfelt Romance; Closed Door; New York Times bestselling author; Victoria James; Single Title Romance; Second Chances; Starting Over; Opposites Attract; Sweet; Emotional; Fall; North America; Coming of Age; Grumpy Hero; Girl Next door; Humorous; Uplifting; Rules; Entangled Publishing; Amara; Family;
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Amara)
Published: 2019-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Cooper shifted from one foot to the other as he waited for Emily to answer the door. He wasn’t going to concentrate on the fact that this was the first date he’d been on in over a decade, since that was just pretty damn sad.

But he didn’t have to worry about any of that, because Emily opened the door a moment later, looking like a woman he didn’t deserve to have. Her brown hair fell in loose waves around her shoulders and the deep wine-colored sweater dress hugged her curves. But when his eyes met hers, his gut clenched, and he cursed his family. She knew. Sympathy and pity were shining in those green eyes, and he wanted to smash his fist against the brick. He didn’t want Emily’s sympathy. He wanted to be Cooper and not the poor widower that everyone felt sorry for.

“Hi, you look beautiful,” he said, manners forcing him to be polite.

“Thank you,” she said, tossing him a smile.

He held the door for her while she gathered her purse and some kind of pale-pink wrap. After she locked up, they walked to his truck in silence, and he held the passenger side door open for her. As he rounded his side of the truck, he knew he was going to have to say something and get it over with, because if he didn’t, the whole damn night was going to be ruined. He climbed into the driver’s seat beside her and pulled out of the driveway.

“Is everything okay?” she said when they’d been driving a few minutes.

He glanced at her and cursed himself for being distant. “I don’t know. Why don’t you tell me why you were looking at me like you wanted to cry?”

She let out a little moan. “It’s… I’m sorry. Callie is going to kill me.”

He gave a short laugh. “Callie. I should have guessed.”

“She meant well, she really did. She didn’t tell me much, and she emphasized it was your story to tell. She just said that you’d been married before…and that your wife had died.” Her sentence ended on a whisper.

He glanced at his rearview mirror and then he pulled the truck over onto the shoulder. It was a quiet country road, but he put his hazard lights on to be safe. There was no way he was having this conversation while he was driving. He was just going to get it out there and done. “I met Catherine in high school. Her family had just moved here from Vancouver. We became friends right away. She was into sports and a lot of the girls’ and boys’ teams hung out after games and practices. We had a lot in common. We were friends for a long time. We went to senior prom together and…were together ever since. Everything with Catherine was easy. We were so similar. We hardly argued. We jogged together. We played co-ed sports together. We were inseparable. Everyone loved Catherine, she was everyone’s favorite. Just so easygoing and happy.

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