Settling Back

By: Lainey Bancroft | Other books by Lainey Bancroft
Categories: Mainstream Romance, Contemporary
Word Count: 91,110
Heat Level: SENSUAL
Published By: The Wild Rose Press

 

Angelina Jordan has lived up to her late mother’s wish that she never settle for an ordinary life and it’s left her feeling—unsettled. When the grandmother who raised her breaks a hip, she returns to the tiny northern Ontario town she couldn’t wait to escape and is surprised to discover it feels like home for the first time in years. She is also amazed to discover she still shares an incredible connection with Billy, her high school sweetheart. It’s just too bad he’s the same carefree and utterly lacking in ambition man she left behind. How can she be so attracted to who he is, when she finds what he is distasteful?







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Settling Back
Settling Back

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Excerpt

"Do you remember that red string bikini you used to have? There was so much more of you than there was material. I loved that bathing suit," he chuckled.

"Billy, it's getting cold in here, and I'm not wearing anything."

He continued to chuckle. "Now, if I were a decent city gentleman, I suppose I would decorously turn my back." She immediately noticed he'd adopted a hillbilly twang to his deep tones. "But being the country bumpkin that I am, your admission of nudity only makes me want to pull up a chair and make sure I'm front and center when you rise up outta' that water all wet and glistening in the moonlight."

"You're behaving like a teenaged pervert!" She was beyond embarrassed at being caught skinny-dipping, and peeved by his unreasonable attitude.

"Come on, Angel, isn't it bad enough you lost all your hair and your butt in that city of yours? Don't tell me you lost your sense of humor as well?"

"You're making me uncomfortable," she admitted softly. "Just go up to the house and wait for me there. Please, Bill."

Oh, Bill is it? Billy felt an unexpected stab of sadness. Angel had never called him simply Bill. It sounded wrong in her husky tones, which he could distinctly remember whispering please, oh please, Billy in a very different way. How far apart they had grown, he and this girl he had known forever and loved for as long.