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At least he didn’t look like Gene Wilder. I didn’t consider myself a shallow person, but maybe I was.
I knew for a fact Hawk Danielson was eye candy of the highest caliber. He was blond and tall with swagger. If that combination wasn’t enough to steam my blood, I didn’t know what was.
All the more reason to keep my distance.
Men who looked like that couldn’t be trusted. He had all the right things about him, which could only mean there was something else wrong with him, something I couldn’t see, and I didn’t want to find out what that was.
“Addie and I are driving,” I said, looking at my suitcase sitting near the TV as though it agreed with me.
“I’ve made that trip before,” Gabby said. “It’s a long one.”
“We’ll keep each other company. We’ll listento audiobooks and eat snacks. It’ll go by in no time. In fact, I’m all packed and ready to go as soon as Addie gets here.”
My cousin Adelie lived in a house across town with her sister. She was currently a nursing student at the University of Vermont.
When Gabby had first reached out to tell me we were related and asked if I was interested in getting to know her, it had taken me a few days before I decided to reply.
She had reached out to Addie as well, but as far as I knew, Addie hadn’t responded to Gabby at all until she and Adrian had flown out here to meet us five months ago.
From the prolonged pause on the other end of the line, I could tell Gabby was pouting.
“Why don’t you want to meet him? You’ve never told me. You should give Hawk a chance.”
Really? She was still trying to push this?
Strain pinched just beneath my temples. What could I say so she could understand?
I couldn’t explain that I wanted my own kind of bliss. I wanted a man who was better than any I’d ever known—and considering how even my own father wasn’t the most ideal standard, I doubted the kind of man I dreamed of existed at all.
Why get my hopes up, only to find out later what I already knew?
I didn’t want the disappointment. I didn’t want the heartache. I’d had enough of both.
“It’s a free flight,” Gabby said in a singsong voice. “He wouldn’t even charge you.”
“Is he that desperate to get a date?”
“What? No, he?—”
I narrowed my eyes. There had to be more to this insistence that he and I go out.
“Does he know you’ve been trying to push the two of us together?” I asked.
“I don’t think so. I’ve never said anything. I just suggested you ride with him because you live in the same town. He’s already flying here from Westville. I figured you and Adelie might as well catch a ride.”
That much made sense, at least.
“That’s sweet of you,” I said.
For a moment, I was tempted. I needed every penny I could keep my hands on.
I’d been looking into the Garson School of Fashion Design and had been gearing up for my move to New York City after the new year.
Saving money would be a perk.
The more I thought about it, the more the situation began to glimmer in a new light. Why couldn’t we catch a ride? Who said I had to interact with Mr. Eye Candy, anyway?
Small planes like the fancy one he had would have close quarters. I’d probablyhaveto talk to him.
