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The Nearness of You: The Thorntons Book 1 About the Author
A coffee addict and cat lover, Iris Morland writes sexy and funny contemporary romances. If she's not reading or writing, she enjoys binging on Netflix shows and cooking something delicious.Stay in touch!irismorland.comIris Morland’s MermaidsNewsletter Facebook Twitter BookBub Goodreads Instagram
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“I hope you like sushi,” Caleb said after he and Megan were seated at a booth in the corner, “because otherwise tonight won’t be much fun for you.”Megan wrinkled her nose. “Lucky for you that I do like sushi. Although what would’ve happened if I’d said I hated it? Would you go somewhere else with me?”He heaved a deep sigh. “I guess. Although I would’ve judged you for it for the entire evening.”Laughing, Megan felt her nerves calm for the first time that evening. Ever since Caleb had come into The Rise and Shine and insisted that she go to dinner with him, she’d been a mess. Actually, she’d been a mess over him for what felt like an eternity. Now that she was sitting across from him, his dark hair tousled and his face showing the shadow of his beard already, she had to stop herself from practically crawling into his lap and eating him up. It didn’t help that he was wearing a button-up that brought out the green in his eyes, or that he looked at her like he could eat her up, too, i
The Nearness of You: The Thorntons Book 1 Epilogue
Sara smiled as she looked outside her kitchen window. “Look at this grasshopper,” Harrison was saying with all the seriousness of a true insect collector, “It’s huge.”She watched as James narrowed his eyes. “I’ve seen bigger,” he said in confident tones.Harrison seemed nonplussed, but with a devious smile, he placed the grasshopper on James’s shoulder. James squealed, especially when the grasshopper hopped into his hair. This resulted in Harrison plucking the offending bug from James’s hair, but not before both had collapsed to the grass in laughter.It was the beginning of summer, and with that came three months off for Sara and James. It also meant that Harrison was at their house as often as his schedule permitted. He’d hinted to her about moving in with him, but she didn’t want to uproot James after they’d just moved to this house, not to mention that she had Ruth to consider as well.“They look good together,” Ruth commented as she came to stand by the window. “You’d think h
The Nearness of You: The Thorntons Book 1 Chapter 19
When Harrison saw that Sara was calling him, his heart leapt into his throat and he almost dropped his phone on the hardwood floor of his bedroom. He swore, rustling around underneath the bed to grab his still ringing phone. He managed to pick it up a second before the call would’ve gone to voicemail.“Sara? How are you?” he answered in a rush.Silence. Then: “Harrison?”That was definitely not Sara’s voice. If he didn’t know better, it sounded like a little boy’s.“James?”“Yeah, it’s me. How did you know it was me?”Harrison sat down on his bed. “Call it a lucky guess. Why are you calling me? Are you okay? Is your mom okay?”James made a noise. Harrison couldn’t tell if it was a grunt, a laugh, or maybe just a six-year-old boy’s sound of frustration at stupid adults. “She’s fine. She doesn’t know I’m using her phone, though. So you can’t tell her. She gets mad if I use it without permission.”Harrison was tempted to ask how James knew her passcode, but then again, kids were s
The Nearness of You: The Thorntons Book 1 Chapter 18
“Mom, did you hear me? I said that I scored a goal today in PE.”Sara looked up from the cutting board where she was chopping carrots. James sat at the kitchen table, his chin in his hands as he watched her. “I’m sorry, what did you say?”“I said that I scored a goal today.”“That’s great, honey. Playing basketball?”He rolled his eyes. “You don’t score goals in basketball. It was soccer.”“Don’t sass your mother,” Ruth said as she entered the small kitchen. Wearing a purple blouse with matching purple pants, she looked like a veritable rainbow with her red hair.“Sorry. But, Mom, you’ve barely been listening to me since we got home today. Every day you look sad. Why do you look so sad? Is it because Harrison hasn’t come by and given you flowers?”Sara returned to her carrots, shaking her head. She hadn’t spoken to Harrison since that fateful night when she’d told him things were over between them. He’d called a handful of times afterward, but she’d ignored them. Soon, the calls
