The Reading by M.E. Clayton

Author:M.E. Clayton [Clayton, M.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1

Chanel~

It was cute how things were so simple for children. It was adults that made life more complicated than it needed to be.

“That’s a good question, Donnie,” Wyatt said, trying not to laugh at his innocence.

“You know, Ms. Ainsley doesn’t have a husband,” Roger Hartman said, and that caused me to choke a bit. “And she’s really pretty, don’t you think?”

Now, while I was a five-foot-three brunette with amber-colored eyes, Wyatt Valinsky was six-foot-three of pure athletic muscle. The man had black hair, royal blue eyes, and a face that reminded me of Mike Vogel a bit. When he smiled and those dimples of his popped out, that really had the power to make a woman’s panties wet, and I had no doubt that being a professional hockey player had made him very familiar with women’s panties.

No, I wasn’t unattractive, but I was not in Wyatt Valinsky’s league. The man could have any woman that he wanted, and he’d probably had. Now, I wasn’t judging or anything, because that wasn’t my style, and being a single man, Wyatt had every right to live his life the way that he’d wanted. I was just realistic. I was a six on the average, a seven if I dolled myself up, and I was okay with that. I was perfectly happy with my petite frame. I was so petite that it was easy to see that my brother was legally my stepbrother, but we didn’t pay any attention to that crap.

Jansen Ainsley had come into my life when I’d been only two-years-old, and Jansen had been three. Dad had adopted Jansen when he had turned five, after a very violent, heated, telling argument between Dad and Jansen’s biological father. In the end, it had all worked out, and Jansen was my brother, though we looked nothing alike and didn’t share the same DNA. However, in my opinion, loyalty was a greater bond than DNA. Away in the military, Jansen was a marine that was changing the world, and we were all so very proud of him.

Now, back to my current humiliating reality…

“Roger, I don’t think that-”

“Yes, she’s very pretty,” Wyatt agreed. “Did you guys know that me and Ms. Ainsley went to school together when we were kids?” His question got a whole bunch of oohs and aahs. “Yep, we’ve known each other since we were young.”

“Then why isn’t she your wife?” Lilly March asked, and I just wanted the ground to swallow me whole.

“Well, she had to go to college to become a teacher, and I had to go to college to become a hockey player,” he explained kindly. “We kind of…had our own dreams to chase.”

“But you’re here now,” Donnie pointed out, and when I looked over, my doctor, police officer, firefighter, and veterinarian had all their heads hung low, trying not to laugh.

Could this be any more embarrassing?

“Yeah, why can’t she be your wife now?” Roger added.

“She’s nice, too,” Trevor Edmonton said, joining in on the quest to get me married off.

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