When We Touch by Brenda Novak

Author:Brenda Novak
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781426875793
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2012-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Kyle felt as if the night would never end. He knew he was drinking too much, but he had to do something. Otherwise, he’d get into a public argument with his soon-to-be wife. Noelle was playing games, taunting Olivia wherever and whenever she could. She didn’t realize that it made her look jealous and inferior and foolish.

This was the woman he was marrying. But the sense of doom that acknowledgment brought him wasn’t the worst of what he was suffering. Not tonight. The worst was watching Brandon and Olivia together. The way they’d walked into the room, united against everyone else. The intimacy of the looks they exchanged across the table. The smiles. They were captivated with each other. He’d never seen his brother so attentive to a woman. He wanted to believe Brandon was just trying to get under his skin, but he knew better. Brandon had his faults. He was competitive and stubborn and determined to live life on his own terms, but he was honest, and he wasn’t petty.

Kyle had expected this wedding to be difficult, but it was proving to be almost impossible.

“So have you decided where you’ll live?” his future mother-in-law asked.

This had been a subject of much contention. He wanted to stay in the same house he’d been living in for five years, the one he’d had built near his manufacturing plant. It wasn’t big or ostentatious, but it was comfortable and convenient.

Noelle wanted him to buy her a mansion in town. She worked at a dress boutique, making minimum wage, and used the excuse that it was closer to her job.

“We’re going to knock down the old Foreman house right there on the turn as you leave town and build our dream home,” Noelle gushed.

Kyle gaped at her. Where had that come from? She’d been trying to talk him into that plan, but he’d never agreed. “No, we’re not,” he said. “Noelle will be moving in with me.”

“We can’t live in that cracker box!” she snapped. “Where will we put the baby?”

“There’s room.” He finished his champagne and searched for the waiter. “I can move the storage I have over to the plant.”

“But there’s no need to go to the trouble. If we build in town, we can have everything just the way we want.”

The way she wanted. That was all that ever mattered.

He could tell he was making his parents uncomfortable by not respecting her wishes, but the alcohol was interfering with his ability to control the negative thoughts and emotions rising to the surface. “I’m not ready to build in town.”

“That’s not what you said when we talked about it last,” Noelle pressed, despite the look he gave her, asking her to drop it. “You said you’d think about it.”

He shrugged. “I have. The answer’s no.”

“What I want doesn’t count?” Her voice grew shrill. “We’re going to stay in that dump just because you like it?”

His place was one of the nicest in the area. It wasn’t even close to being a “dump.

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