Kingston Lewis is the one for me. I know it… he knows it… and if he wasn’t so stubborn, the entire world would know it by now. I should be Cabella Lewis, a renowned artist instead of Cabella Abbott, a struggling college student. The artist thing is doable, but marrying Kingston? This is proving to be harder than expected.
He insists on saying that we can’t be together. That it wouldn’t be appropriate or some nonsense like that. The list of reasons he gives is short and frustrating; he’s the dean at my college, almost double my age, and lastly… he just so happens to be my dad’s best friend.
But if Kingston thinks his weak arguments will keep me from loving him, he is sorely mistaken. I plan on making that man mine, no matter what. After all, I am my father’s daughter; he didn’t make a name for himself by taking no for an answer. And I won’t find my happily ever after by accepting excuses.
Loving Cabella is part of the Dad’s Best Friend series, featuring deliciously forbidden steamy age gap instalove romances.
It was supposed to be a stress-free weekend. My twin sister, Lily, and I trading in the craziness of the city for the calm, serene atmosphere of Coldwater Mountain. The goal was for us to take long walks in the woods, embrace the peacefulness, and reconnect. Instead, we ended up caught in a summer storm. One minute, it was clear and bright; the next, it was raining so hard I swore we would drown.
Soon, Lily and I found ourselves not just battling the elements, but also each other. Then, after a sequence of events involving lightning and a not-so-sturdy tree, I lost track of Lily. Once my panic subsided, I sought refuge in a decommissioned firewatch tower, hoping to find help. Little did I know, I was about to run headfirst into a rugged, axe-wielding mountain man whose very presence ignited a fire within me–a fire I didn’t have time to deal with because my sister needed me.
So I tried to leave because this man makes it easy for me to forget why I had to come here in the first place, but he insisted I stay, citing the danger outside. True to his word, he reaches out for help, ensuring my sister is safe.
The problem now is that I'm the one in danger, trapped, with no way out unless I go through him. I may be curvy, but I definitely can’t take on a hard-bodied giant. Or maybe I can.
No longer worried or scared, my silly hormones have gone into overdrive, deciding that this mountain man needs a reward for his kindness–and that reward is me. What happens next will either go down in history as the greatest love story ever, in my opinion, or be my biggest regret yet.
He may have me trapped until the storm passes, but little does he know…I have no intention of ever leaving.
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