The City Girl's Homecoming by Kathy Douglass

Author:Kathy Douglass
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-06T19:24:42+00:00

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Megan didn’t say much as they fed the animals and that was fine with Cade. With all the noise and confusion suddenly filling his head he wouldn’t have been able to form a coherent thought much less carry on an intelligent conversation. Sometimes it was best to be quiet rather than risk saying the wrong thing. In this case the wrong thing would be to ask Megan to come with him into town for dinner and a movie. Or maybe for a walk around the farm. He wanted her company for a few more hours. Or maybe for the night. Thoughts like that would lead him down a path he shouldn’t travel, so it was best to keep his mouth shut.

Megan was a city girl. And not just any city girl. She was a lawyer from New York City. That was two strikes against any relationship he and Megan could ever have. His former fiancée had ended their engagement a few weeks before the wedding day, then run away to Chicago with her lawyer boyfriend. Cade knew that some people might believe he was being irrational to group all city girls into the same category, or to feel a grudge against lawyers, but he knew he was just being practical.

Life on a farm could be lonely and isolated. His former fiancée, Deadra, had sworn she’d be happy living on his piece of land. She’d claimed that she could be happy anywhere as long as they were together. That all she’d needed was him. He’d believed her. Once the reality of living in his house had set in, she’d dumped him and returned to big city life where she’d been happy.

He’d grown up here and liked his life on the farm. The quiet solitude didn’t bother him. Though she seemed content now, Cade believed in his heart that that Megan wouldn’t be able to adjust to life here any better than Deadra had. It would be foolhardy to think otherwise.

Megan had been in the area for a couple of months. The time she’d spent in Spring Forest could be likened to a long vacation. People visited places that were different from their normal lives in order to have new experiences. A small North Carolina town was definitely a novelty for her. No doubt she enjoyed spending time in such a charming town. But eventually she would get tired of the slower pace and crave the activity of New York once more. When that happened she’d be gone and Cade would be left behind. He would be a fool to open himself up to someone who was so wrong for him—especially a woman like Megan who made his heart skip a beat every time he saw her. It would be way too easy to get in over his head with her, if he let himself. But he wouldn’t. He’d been a fool once. He wasn’t going to make that mistake again.

That’s why he needed to keep her at a distance.

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