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“Oh, you are!” I exclaimed happily. “If I could get a couple of licks of that, that would be amazing. Then I could get the lemon chiffon as well.” I paused as I realized what I was saying. “But obviously, you don’t have to let me have any of your mint choc chip. That’s weird. Sorry. You don’t even know me. You don’t even know if I have germs or—”
“It’s okay,” he laughed. “I’ve kissed you, remember?”
“Yes, I remember,” I blushed, looking away.
“So you can have more than one lick of my mint choc chip ice cream,” he grinned. “You can have more than one lick of something else as well.”
“Sorry, what did you say?”
“Nothing.” He winked at me.
My skin and my entire body felt hot. He was flirting with me. He was definitely flirting with me … and I liked it. His sparkling green eyes laughed at me as we stood there, and I wondered what I would have done if he had been the man I was here to marry. I would have been happy and angry at the same time. Happy because he was absolutely gorgeous, even more gorgeous than Beau, though I wouldn’t admit that to a soul other than Olivia. But angry because his personality was so jarring and he was so annoying and antagonistic.
I had a feeling he didn’t really like me much, and maybe that was my fault for lying to him in the beginning. But it wasn’t my fault that his mom had put an ad in the newspaper and I’d responded.
“So have you been listening to anything I’ve been saying, Lucy?” he said, and I looked up at him realizing I hadn’t heard a word he’d said.
“Uh, yeah, let’s do that,” I said.
“Let’s do what?” his brows furrowed as he gazed at me.
“Um, you get the mint choc chip and I get the lemon chiffon.”
“Okay. That wasn’t the question I’d asked you, though.”
“Oh, what was the question?”
“I asked you if you had clothes to go riding tomorrow.”
“Oh,” I said, feeling like an idiot yet again. “Um, I’m sure I can figure something out.”
“Are you a good rider? Do you like riding?”
“Oh, I absolutely love it. When I was younger, I used to participate in riding competitions,” I lied, remembering the horse books I’d read as a young girl.
“Really?” he looked at me in surprise. “I didn’t take you for a horsewoman.”
“Well, you know me, I’m one with nature and all that.”
“You’re one with nature.” He raised an eyebrow. “Really?”
“Yes, really. That’s why I’d be the perfect bride for Beau.”
His eyes narrowed. “You think you’d be the perfect bride for my brother?”
“Yes, I do,” I beamed at him. “I think he and I are a match made in heaven.”
“Really?” He took a step closer to me. “Because I kind of have a different opinion.”
“Oh?” I said softly, swallowing hard as his lips came towards mine.
“Yeah, I do.” He kissed my lips, gently at first and then a little bit more firmly before pulling away. I stared at him stunned, not believing that he’d done that right here in the ice cream shop in front of everyone.
“What do you think you’re doing?”
“What do you mean what am I doing? I’m doing what you like.”
“I never said I like it. I—”
