you think?”
He climbed back in on his side and fired up the truck. “No, I really don’t think so. We’ve been getting along better than we ever had.” He pulled his eyebrows together. “Do you think something bad has happened?”
She didn’t want to alarm him, especially since he seemed genuinely disturbed, but that was exactly her fear. “I’ll help you find him. That way I can evaluate him when he shows up.”
Lee exhaled a relieved breath and squeezed her hand. “That would be so great.”
Perfect. Trapped with a gorgeous, unavailable ex-boyfriend in a confined space that smelled like warm man and warmer cotton. What could be better?
Good grief. She was going to have to cave to her mother’s harassment and start dating again. There was no way she could withstand the constant onslaught of pheromones from this man and stay sane. Thank God the construction was almost finished.
Chapter Ten
Four Years, eleven months and twenty-seven days ago
Candace found the overnight delivery envelope on the counter next to a coffee cup. Lee had scrawled a messy note on the top in pencil.
Julie asked me to give this to you. See you for dinner. XOXO
It was signed with the single letter
L
.
Her next door neighbor must have received it when Candace had been at the grocery store the day before. Inside was contact information and a welcome letter from the International Office. Key cards to her student residence were tucked in a smaller envelope. She plopped down on the couch and opened the twenty-eight page International Student Handbook for the University of Glasgow.
That stupid bar contest had made her dream come true and she still couldn’t believe it. She was going to finish her veterinary schooling at the same school where James Herriot had gone. It made her giddy.
She had read
All Creatures Great and Small
and the companion books in the series over and over until the spines of her paperbacks had quite literally disintegrated. She knew all Herriot’s stories by heart. Her entire life she’d dreamed of going to Glasgow for university, but it had been a pipe dream. Her father was a veterinarian and her oldest brother was finishing up his requirements to be one as well. There had never been any doubt that Candace would be a doctor, too. Her other brothers had different ambitions, but for Candace it was always the animals. She had been accepted into a great school for her undergraduate, and thanks to scholarships and grants she would be able to attend an excellent veterinary college, but Glasgow had always been out of reach. A veterinarian with six kids didn’t have extra money to pay for that kind of extravagance. It was a phenomenal school, one of the top one percent in the world. That also meant it was expensive.
Thanks to Black Sam Ale and good genetics, she’d been able to scrape up the last of the money, along with what her parents would give her, a savings bond from her grandmother, and several obscure scholarships, to get her there. Her dedication and good grades had gotten her one of the coveted one hundred and twenty international student admissions granted each year. It was going to be tight financially, but she’d figure it out.
She’d be leaving in a matter of days. All that was left was packing her apartment and moving everything to storage.
And there was the complication of Lee.
Who’d have ever expected that she’d fall in love now, of all times? It was absurd. She’d always been so driven, so determined to succeed, that she’d never really had time for men. There had been one or two boyfriends in high school for the usual dances and homecoming and a short-term relationship by its barest definition in college, but once she’d entered veterinary school, she’d had laser focus.
Lee had wormed his way into her life with his playful sense of humor and unfailingly good character. And great sex. The man had an amazing body and he found all the places on hers that proved she did as well.
He also
He climbed back in on his side and fired up the truck. “No, I really don’t think so. We’ve been getting along better than we ever had.” He pulled his eyebrows together. “Do you think something bad has happened?”
She didn’t want to alarm him, especially since he seemed genuinely disturbed, but that was exactly her fear. “I’ll help you find him. That way I can evaluate him when he shows up.”
Lee exhaled a relieved breath and squeezed her hand. “That would be so great.”
Perfect. Trapped with a gorgeous, unavailable ex-boyfriend in a confined space that smelled like warm man and warmer cotton. What could be better?
Good grief. She was going to have to cave to her mother’s harassment and start dating again. There was no way she could withstand the constant onslaught of pheromones from this man and stay sane. Thank God the construction was almost finished.
Chapter Ten
Four Years, eleven months and twenty-seven days ago
Candace found the overnight delivery envelope on the counter next to a coffee cup. Lee had scrawled a messy note on the top in pencil.
Julie asked me to give this to you. See you for dinner. XOXO
It was signed with the single letter
L
.
Her next door neighbor must have received it when Candace had been at the grocery store the day before. Inside was contact information and a welcome letter from the International Office. Key cards to her student residence were tucked in a smaller envelope. She plopped down on the couch and opened the twenty-eight page International Student Handbook for the University of Glasgow.
That stupid bar contest had made her dream come true and she still couldn’t believe it. She was going to finish her veterinary schooling at the same school where James Herriot had gone. It made her giddy.
She had read
All Creatures Great and Small
and the companion books in the series over and over until the spines of her paperbacks had quite literally disintegrated. She knew all Herriot’s stories by heart. Her entire life she’d dreamed of going to Glasgow for university, but it had been a pipe dream. Her father was a veterinarian and her oldest brother was finishing up his requirements to be one as well. There had never been any doubt that Candace would be a doctor, too. Her other brothers had different ambitions, but for Candace it was always the animals. She had been accepted into a great school for her undergraduate, and thanks to scholarships and grants she would be able to attend an excellent veterinary college, but Glasgow had always been out of reach. A veterinarian with six kids didn’t have extra money to pay for that kind of extravagance. It was a phenomenal school, one of the top one percent in the world. That also meant it was expensive.
Thanks to Black Sam Ale and good genetics, she’d been able to scrape up the last of the money, along with what her parents would give her, a savings bond from her grandmother, and several obscure scholarships, to get her there. Her dedication and good grades had gotten her one of the coveted one hundred and twenty international student admissions granted each year. It was going to be tight financially, but she’d figure it out.
She’d be leaving in a matter of days. All that was left was packing her apartment and moving everything to storage.
And there was the complication of Lee.
Who’d have ever expected that she’d fall in love now, of all times? It was absurd. She’d always been so driven, so determined to succeed, that she’d never really had time for men. There had been one or two boyfriends in high school for the usual dances and homecoming and a short-term relationship by its barest definition in college, but once she’d entered veterinary school, she’d had laser focus.
Lee had wormed his way into her life with his playful sense of humor and unfailingly good character. And great sex. The man had an amazing body and he found all the places on hers that proved she did as well.
He also
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