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“I had the open side of the house tarped and I promised Gertie that I’ll move into the sunroom downstairs and stay there so I can make sure there’s no looting—and no kids trying to use it as a party spot...”
Was he honestly telling her what it seemed like he was telling her?
“You and I are going to be housemates?” she said, her voice louder than she’d intended it to be.
“You’ll be upstairs, I’ll be down—in the sunroom that’s not really in the house. I’ll use the bathroom downstairs. You’ll have the one upstairs to yourself. I’ll never even climb the stairs...”
“And we know how you like to take that kind of situation and spin it for your own benefit,” she said, this time keeping none of her animosity toward him hidden.
That left a heavy silence for a moment before a much more subdued Micah said in a somber voice, “I can never tell you how sorry—”
“As if that matters!” Lexie snapped, cutting him off. She was in no mood to hear apologies or rehash the past with him.
Instead, as they approached the sign welcoming them to Merritt, she turned her head to glare at him again and added, “Don’t forget that I know you. And don’t think for one minute that I won’t be watching your every move.”
He nodded his head, accepting that with every indication of resignation.
Lexie went on glowering at him, furious with the situation but not seeing any way out. The one person on earth she didn’t even want to know existed was the person she was going to be cohabitating with. And worst of all, this was putting her in a position similar to the one he’d used to cause trouble for her fifteen years ago.
This was not what she’d wanted to come home to.
But, unlike the rental car, in this she didn’t have any choice.
She couldn’t afford a room at the bed-and-breakfast that was the only temporary option in town and she certainly couldn’t pay for an apartment of her own. And while she could insist on him leaving her to stay by herself, she didn’t like the idea of being alone in a house that anyone could walk into day or night. She had a feeling Gram wouldn’t like the idea of that, either, and Lexie didn’t feel as if she could add any more stress to her ailing grandmother by pitching a fit about it.
So she was going to have to put her own negative feelings about him on the back burner and make the best of a rotten situation.
But there would be no forgetting that even if Micah Camden had grown up to be as head-turningly handsome a man as she had ever seen, underneath that very impressive surface was nothing good.
Copyright © 2020 by Victoria Pade
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ISBN-13: 9781488075230
The Child Who Changed Them
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