The Millionaire's Homecoming

The Millionaire's Homecoming
Cara Colter

They can’t throw away a second chance… Widow Kayla Jaffrey is hoping this summer she may just find the girl she was: one who believed love could conquer all! And literally falling in the path of childhood friend David Blaze, a man who once left a hole in her life, she tells herself it can’t be just fate…. Returning home to Blossom Valley was the last thing millionaire David wanted to do, but his family must come first. And seeing Kayla, as beautiful as ever, causes David to wonder if maybe they’re being given a chance to rewrite history…this time together….

“Do you miss it here? Ever?”

His silence was long. “No, Kayla. I don’t have time to miss it.”

“If you did have time, would you?”

Again the silence was long. And then, almost reluctantly, he said, “Yeah, I guess I would. Blossom Valley was the place of perfect summer, wasn’t it?”

The longing was poignant between them.

“I can’t remember the last time I looked at the stars like this,” she murmured. But she thought it was probably in those carefree days, those days before everything had changed.

“Me, either.”

It was one of those absolutely spontaneous perfect moments. With the pure scent of the dew on the grass and the night air and those flowers drooping under their own weight that had made the night so deliciously fragrant.

“Is that Orion above us?” he asked.

“Yes,” she said, “the Hunter.”

“I remember how you impressed me once by naming all the stars in that constellation.”

She laughed softly. “Zeta, Epsilon, Delta. That’s his belt.”

“Go on.”

So she did, naming the stars of the constellation one by one, and then they lay in silence, contemplating the night sky above them.

He didn’t answer. He just reached out and slid a hand through her hair, and looked at her with such longing it stole the breath from her lungs.

The air felt ripe with possibilities. Kayla, again, felt seen, somehow, in a way no one had seen her for years.

The Millionaire’s

Homecoming

Cara Colter

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

CARA COLTER lives in British Columbia with her partner, Rob, and eleven horses. She has three grown children and a grandson. She is a recent recipient of an RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award in the Love and Laughter category. Cara loves to hear from readers, and you can contact her or learn more about her on her Facebook page.

This story is for my sister, Anna, for my brother-in-law, Dale, and especially for Courtenay. You are my greatest teachers.

Contents

CHAPTER ONE (#u1b8e2e49-e870-56dc-8ac4-2225484ac798)

CHAPTER TWO (#uc3a5e2ff-d991-5801-886e-a5214bcf07bf)

CHAPTER THREE (#uc128f465-5741-5033-a02f-72fe27a9b63a)

CHAPTER FOUR (#u5f919096-da42-5d84-95ce-95a83b7a3ddd)

CHAPTER FIVE (#u0c920e68-b11f-5c96-9358-a2c4ee63749a)

CHAPTER SIX (#u13218b25-03cd-5201-be46-7c6a5608f33b)

CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SIXTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER NINETEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)

EXTRACT (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ONE

BLOSSOM VALLEY. IN A fast-paced world, David Blaze thought, a trifle sardonically, his hometown was a place unchanging.

Built on the edges of a large bay that meandered inland from Lake Ontario, it had always been a resort town, a summer escape from the oppressive July humidity and heat for the well-heeled, mostly from Canada’s largest city, Toronto.

The drive, two hours—with the top down on David’s mint 1957 two-seater pearl-gray ragtop convertible—followed a route that traveled pleasantly through rolling, lush hills dotted with contented cattle, faded red barns, weathered fruit stands and sleepy service stations that still sold ice-cold soda pop in thick, glass bottles.