9781631050275TheirPerfectMatchMarshNC (17 page)

“Are you asking me to spend the night?”

“Would you be angry if I were?”

“No.” He continued to gaze into her eyes. “The truth is, I’m enjoying what I’m looking at right now. And yes, I want to spend the night with you…very much.”

“Guess what?” she teased as he drew her closer and stroked her cheek with one hand. “I never did return that lingerie to Antoinette’s store. Somehow, I had a feeling I might get some use out of it after all.”

“I’d say your instincts were right on target about that, too,” he marveled. “I really need to start listening to your intuition more closely in the future.”

“That makes two of us,” she agreed.

As his lips met hers, Molly realized, perhaps for the first time, that she really was capable of attracting and keeping a man—not with surface charm or even manufactured flirtatious behavior, but with the deeper qualities she had never valued enough in herself. Zane saw them in a way she doubted Todd ever had. Maybe he just hadn’t bothered to search for them.

Still, Todd was the past. Zane was her future. She’d known that all along, at some level—she just hadn’t wanted to admit it. Now it was time for a new beginning.

*The End*

About the Author

Alela Marsh is a longtime fan of romance novels who recently decided to take the plunge and start writing her own stories.
Their Perfect Match
is her first publication with Secret Cravings. She is currently hard at work on another book.

Secret Cravings Publishing

www.secretcravingspublishing.com