Meeting Mr. Wright
by Cassie Cross
Release Date: April 17th 2014
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
Callie Kirkpatrick promised herself she’d never fall in love again.
After catching her boyfriend Ethan cheating on her, Callie decides to retire from the dating game at the ripe old age of twenty-four. Unfortunately for Callie, she’s going to have to see Ethan at her best friend’s upcoming wedding. Stranded in the airport during a weather delay on her way to the nuptials, Callie meets Nate Wright. He’s sexy and uncomplicated, and a one-night stand is just what the doctor ordered for a girl with a broken heart. Callie thinks she’ll never see Nate again —until he shows up at the wedding.
Nate is hell-bent on making Callie forget about her ex, and he makes her question whether she was ever really in love with Ethan at all. As she begins to fall for Nate, Callie wonders if promises were meant to be broken…
Meeting Mr. Wright
by Cassie Cross
Gabby
looks at me with wide eyes as she grabs my arm and leads me to a bench a few
feet away where we can talk without worrying about anyone overhearing us.
“What.
Was. That?” she asks. “I was hoping you two would hit it off, but I never
thought…”
I’m
not really sure what to do now. I know I should tell her, because she’s my best
friend and I’ve never kept anything from her. I don’t think I could keep this from her, even if I
tried. It’s bound to come out at some point, and at least if I let her know now
I can be the one who’s in control of it. But once I tell her about my history
with Nate, I know she’ll start waxing philosophic about fate or something equally
ridiculous. Gabby’s such a hopeless romantic, bless her.
I
might as well get this over with.
“Nate’s
the guy,” I tell her. “The one from the airport.”
“Are
you kidding me?” She’s so excited that I’m a bit worried that she’s going to
hyperventilate. “What are the odds of that? Holy shit.”
“I
bet they’re pretty long,” I tell her. Seriously long. “But I know that look on
your face, and it’s not-”
“It’s
fate,” she says, clasping my hands in hers. “How can you think it’s anything
but fate, Callie?”
“I
can think it’s a coincidence, Gab. Because that’s what it is.” It’s a
delightful, scary coincidence.
“He
likes you.” She’s not going to give up very easily.
“Stop
it.”
“Maybe
one day-”
“No,”
I say firmly. I don’t want her getting any more ideas or thinking that she can
just bulldoze through my plans with her iron will. “You know I don’t want
that.”
She
rolls her eyes, but I shoot her a death glare that lets her know that I’m not
kidding.
“He’s
the best man and you’re the maid of honor. I paired the two of you up at the
bridal party’s table and everything.”
I
sigh. “As long as that’s all the pairing up you do, that’s fine.”
“It
might be out of my hands. He’s super charming,” she says slyly, looking at me
out of the corner of her eye. She’s always doubted my commitment to my new life
goal of never having my heart smashed again by someone I stupidly fall in love
with. I wonder what it’ll take to get her to believe that I’m serious.
“I
think I’m aware of how charming he is,” I tell her. I mean, the man charmed my
pants right off. “How come I haven’t met him before? I don’t even remember ever
hearing about him.”
“You
knew Ben had a brother,” she says in a not-so-subtle chastising tone.
“I
knew he had a brother, but I didn’t know he was hot.” I didn’t know he was Nate.
Gabby
rolls her eyes. “When was I supposed to tell you that? When you were dating
Ethan or when you were swearing off men?”
“Swearing
off love,” I correct her. She has a
point though, I don’t try to argue that.
“Oh,
excuse me,” she says, smiling. “He lives in Boulder and manages a chain of
sporting goods stores, in case you wanted to know.”
“I
didn’t,” I say, even though that’s a tiny white lie. I shouldn’t want to know,
that’s the real issue here.
“The
way he looked at you, Callie,” she says dreamily, and I can tell that I’m not
going to like where that train of thought is heading.
“Can
we please stop talking about this now?”
“If
we stop talking about this, I’m dragging you to the garage to help me make
centerpieces.”
Arts
and crafts time sounds like paradise compared to twenty questions. I stand and
brush off my pants.
“All
right, let’s go.”
Cassie Cross is a Maryland native and a romantic at heart, who lives outside of Baltimore with her two dogs and a closet full of shoes. Cassie's fondness for swoon-worthy men and strong women are the inspiration for most of her stories, and when she's not busy writing a book, you'll probably find her eating takeout and indulging in her love of 80′s sitcoms.
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