Allison Leigh - Montana Passions - Stranded With the Groom / All He Ever Wanted / Prescription - Love

No. It wasn’t the food.

It was the wrongness of being here, of holding her, of touching her soft body, kissing her lips, of drinking her wine and letting her cook for him.

Yeah. It was all wrong, to steal these last perfect moments with her, when in the end he could do nothing but continue on the course he’d set two years ago, on the day of his mother’s death. In the end, his choice wouldn’t change. He would get his payback—for Ramona Lovett Caldwell’s sake, above all.

And that meant he had no right to sit here with Katie, in her house, at her table, pretending that there was some hope for the two of them.

There wasn’t.

There never could be.

Katie set down her fork with a bite of potato still on the end of it. Justin had been much too quiet for several minutes now—ever since that kiss, as a matter of fact, a kiss that had almost ended with the two of them rushing to the bedroom.

But he had stopped it.

And ever since then…

“Justin, what is it?” She forced a joking laugh. “The food can’t be that bad.”

He pushed his plate away. “It’s not the food.” He really didn’t look right.

Alarm skittered through her. His face was set. Kind of…closed against her. Why? “Was it something I said?” She tried to make the question light and playful, but didn’t fully succeed. There was an edge to her voice. She couldn’t help it.

She had the most powerful feeling that something had gone wrong.

Something major.

Something she had a sinking feeling she wasn’t going to be able to make right.

Which was crazy. What could have gone wrong in the space of a few minutes? Hardly anything had been said.

“Justin, was it that you kissed me? But no. I don’t see how it could be that.” She raised both hands, palms up. “Did I do something to upset you? I just don’t get it. I don’t underst—”

He grabbed her hand. “Listen.” He stood, pulling her up with him.

“Justin, I don’t—”

“No. Hear me out. It’s nothing you did.” His eyes gleamed at her with a strange, wild kind of light.

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