Someone to Love (Pride, Oregon #10) - Jill Sanders Page 0,1

what they wanted.

Chris hadn’t been like that. Well, not at first, anyway.

Robin had been so devoted to the man, she hadn’t seen anything like Carly coming. In her mind, Chris had been the one. Sure, there was the annoyance of his gaming and his absolute love of sports.

Not that Robin didn’t appreciate a good football game every now and then, but Chris had been the kind to strip down to boxer shorts and paint his entire body green and yellow.

Do you know what it does to a woman to be seen having dinner in a restaurant after a game with a man like that? Everyone they bumped into looked at her funny. They had almost all the time anyway, since she’d felt so out of place everywhere that he’d taken her.

It was as if there was a sign on her forehead saying, yes, I’m from the other side of the tracks. She’d been accused of dating him for his money so often that she had started questioning why she was still with him.

Getting over Chris hadn’t turned out to be that hard, after all. It helped that he’d dumped her only a few weeks before she’d graduated.

Then her sister had come up with a crazy idea to start their own wedding business. Robin had spent an entire week crunching numbers to see if the idea was sound.

She’d been happily surprised when, according to her calculations, the business would be a good investment for their inheritance. Less than a month after graduating, she and Kara had packed up and moved to Pride, Oregon, the small town where they had spent most of their childhood vacations.

The town where their parents had been snowed in one Christmas and ended up falling in love.

One of Robin’s favorite places on earth.

For the first year, Sunset Weddings did what she’d projected it would do. It grew. Made them enough money that she no longer had to fear.

Then Kara had started dating Conner Jordan.

Robin had been really happy for her sister. Honest. She liked Conner. Actually, she liked all the Jordans.

There were so many of them and sometimes she’d had a difficult time keeping track of who was who. Especially during the last big wedding they’d held for Suzie Jordan and Aiden Brogan.

Apparently, that’s when Kara and Conner had bumped into one another and had started dating. Shortly after, her sister moved into the apartment above the local grocery store with Conner.

That had left Robin alone in the small two-bedroom cottage they had purchased along with the massive barn that hosted their venue, which sat directly along the beach.

Robin didn’t mind living alone in the small place. She quickly turned the other bedroom into an office, since she needed the space to work.

But then Kara had been shot and it appeared that there was a land developer out to not only harm them but somehow take their land away.

She’d never been more afraid for her sister and her life before. She’d never imagined anything like this would happen in a small town.

Seeing Kara lying in the hospital bed, her left arm tucked close to her body, Robin had been so concerned for her little sister that she’d started questioning her choice to come to Pride in the first place. She grew angrier towards the man who had dared to harm Kara.

It was going to be a long road to recovery for her sister, but she could tell that Kara was completely happy and, shortly the incident, she’d become officially engaged to Conner.

Robin was happy for them. Really.

Now that their parents had retired and moved to Pride, and with her sister getting married soon, she tried to be as happy as she could. Her family was coming closer together and growing bigger.

Her parents had always talked about moving to Pride after her father’s retirement, when they no longer had to live in the city for jobs. She was excited that they had decided to build a new home in Hidden Cove, a new housing subdivision that the Jordan family owned, which sat just outside of Pride.

Conner and Kara were having a home built just down the street from her parents’ new place.

With Kara injured, Robin was left to run the business herself. They had more than half a dozen employees that helped them out during each event, but that left the everyday tasks that her sister usually handled to her.

Which meant that every moment of her time was consumed by work. So, when it was decided, without her