Love Therapy (Stanton Falls #2) by Kaci Hart Page B

Nick was a nice guy.
 He was the nicest kind of guy that she knew.  But she’d seen enough
in her practice and in her life to know that they always start out sweet but in
the end, men are all the same.  She mumbled under her breath as she
grabbed the night’s frozen chicken dinner.

 
    “Looks like it’s going
to be me and you tonight again.  How about we follow up your gourmet flavorings
with an ice cream sandwich for dessert… or better yet, one of those ice cream
cones with the ice cream dipped in chocolates and nuts.  I don’t know what
they are called, but I’m gonna find them!  Mark my words chicken dinner,
mark my words.”

 
    When the lady next to
her looked at her rather strangely through the glass, she realized she might
have gone a little far playing with her food.  

 
    Oh well.  You are
probably going home to your husband while I’m going home to the Golden Girls so
I will talk to my food as I please.  

 
    Satisfied with her
selections, she walked towards the register to pay for her groceries and made
her way home to a Friday night packed with fun and excitement.  

 
 
    ***

 
 
    “Ok Donna…
 D-Donna?”

 
    She had already hung up
the phone on him.

 
    Now that was really
rude.  

 
    He didn’t know if he
pushed some kind of button or if she just didn’t want to deal with him anymore
but she hung up on him quicker than he thought possible.  Not only did she
shoot him down on his requested date, but she had run off the phone with him
like he was the plague.  He scratched his head.  That was a new thing
for him.

 
    He was not a playboy by
any means, but he had not found it difficult to get a date.  In all
honesty, he couldn’t remember a time when he had ever even been told no on a
request for a date, not counting the time he asked Emily out just to mess with
Aaron, but he already knew her answer was going to be no.  

 
    Nick walked back into
the house with his father and sat down.  

 
    “Everything good son?”

 
    “Yeah… yeah dad,
everything is fine.”

 
    “Good.  In that
case, these games are pretty much done.  I’m about to take myself a nap
before your mother gets home from her women’s meeting at church.  God
knows I love that woman but I need to rest in order to keep up with her after
one of them meetings.  A million things she’s learned that I just have to
know.”  

 
    Nick laughed.  

 
    His father complained
about the things she rambled about, but Nick knew that he actually looked
forward to those conversations with her.  Nick figured it had something to
do with being married for so long.  It was part of the routine that
defined them.  They had been married for over thirty years now and it was
like they were moving in the opposite direction as most relationships in
America.  Where most people seemed to drift apart the longer they were
married, they seemed to draw closer to one another.  It seemed like
any time that they had the chance to be together, his father and mother wanted
to.  Like the love they knew today only opened the door for greater love
tomorrow.  

 
    Sure, he knew that they
worked on it all the time but that was what made their love seem so attractive
to him.   That was the kind of relationship that he wanted for himself
but he hadn’t found the right person to share that with.  Most of the
women he knew just didn’t catch his attention like that.  That was why he
had stayed single for so long.  He wasn’t the type that had to have
someone in his life just for the sake of being with someone.  He didn’t
know if it was because they lived in such a small town or what but he was
starting to feel like that wasn’t going to be a part of his life.  Donna
was the exception to that.  

 
    Ever since he’d known
her, there was something there.  Just a spark, but enough to catch his
interest.  It was looking more and more each day like that was more his
imagination than anything