Free Calling Kupid (Kupid's Cove Book 1) by Katie Mettner Page B

understand you. Someday I want to know why you automatically asked if I was devout Mormon, in a tone of voice that told me you are anything but. I want to hear that story from your beautiful lips, when you’re ready to tell me. Maybe all of this will lead to friendship, but maybe we will find in each other what we’ve both been looking for from this world. I already know that kissing you gives me a far greater feeling of headiness than any fine bottle of wine ever could. It also gives me a feeling somewhere in my soul that I’ve never had before.”
    “So I’m not the only one feeling this way?”
    I smiled and shook my head. “No, not at all. I knew before I came to town that I had finally found you. That my prayers had been answered. It took me less than five seconds to find your picture on the website for the firm. My reaction in the beginning was disbelief. I gave Graham a very hard time about coming to Snowberry. I covered it with frustration of taking time I pretended I didn’t have, but the reality is, it was fear. I was afraid to face you and have you throw me out of your office. The day I saw your picture I was so busy that it wasn’t until the evening that I really let it sink in. I didn’t know what to do, so I simply prayed. I knew I had to turn myself over to Him in order to find the courage to come to Snowberry. I am weak alone, but with faith I am strong.”
    “ My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Is that what you meant?”
    I captured her hand again and held it, knowing when I went home tonight at least I would harbor her scent on me.
    “That’s exactly what I meant. I had a lot of time to ponder 2 Corinthians when mom was sick. It hasn’t been easy, but I’ve learned to incorporate some of those ideas into my everyday life.”
    “You know when I’m lying here with you like this it makes it hard to keep the disdain I had for you alive? It makes me want to stay here forever in the darkness and share kisses, not caring about the real truth.”
    “What is the real truth, Katie?” I asked, rubbing her belly gently as she spoke.
    “That you live in Chicago and I live in Snowberry. You’re a successful businessman and corporate lawyer. I’m a wet behind the ears family lawyer. You were ten when I was born, which means you’ve had a lot more life experience than I’ve had. You come from a very well respected family. I come from a family everyone wants to forget.”
    “You forgot one,” I whispered, my lips almost on hers.
    “What?” she asked, her eyes glued to mine.
    “We shouldn’t be laying here together stealing kisses in the dark, but we are.”

 
     

    Kate
     
     
    I held the door open for my Friday clients, Nick and Mandy Klaus, a couple who are near and dear to my heart.
    “Hi guys, how’s it going?” I asked, relocking the door behind them and ushering them towards my office.
    “Busy as always, so we’re thankful to have a Friday when school is out,” Nick said. “We’ve been waiting for your call to come sign the papers.”
    I motioned for them to sit as I went behind my desk. “I’m sorry it took so long to get the papers back from your ex, Mandy. He wasn’t, shall we say, cooperative.”
    Mandy grimaced and shook her head. “I’m not surprised. The man is like a faucet, hot then cold then hot. It wasn’t two years ago he was trying to sign away his rights. Now he wants to fight it.”
    I leaned over on my blotter and grinned at her. “I don’t think he was real keen on the idea that some other man was taking his children. All I had to do was remind him that you could still press charges for child endangerment and he signed on the dotted line.”
    Mandy’s ex was a real loser. He enjoyed toying with her about the children endlessly. A few years ago, their daughter, Esther, was injured because he was negligent while taking care of her. He moved to California right after that incident and hasn’t seen the kids in over two