Say You’re MineAll I Ask of YouMake Me YoursHold Me CloseOopsie DaisyHe Loves Me, He Loves Me NotPetal PluckerWar of the RosesincludingThen Came YouTaking a Chance on LoveAll I Want Is YouMy One and OnlyThe Nearness of YouThe Very Thought of YouIf I Can’t Have YouDream a Little Dream of MeSomeone to Watch Over MeTill There Was YouI’ll Be Home for Christmas
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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This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be constructed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.The Very Thought of You (The Thorntons Book 2)Published by Blue Violet Press LLCSeattle, WashingtonCopyright © 2017 by Iris MorlandCover design by Resplendent MediaAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.Quotes from Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss, Random House LLC, New York City. Copyright © 1960 by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P.
“You gonna do something with that loaf of bread, or are you just going to stare at it until it bursts into flames?”Megan Flannigan looked up from the burnt loaf of banana bread currently sitting on her bakery’s counter to gaze into the green eyes of her greatest nemesis, Caleb Thornton. Her heart fluttered into her throat, which annoyed her beyond anything.“I was just thinking,” she retorted. “Until you interrupted me.”“Now I’m curious what you were thinking about with that frown on your face.”She opened her mouth, but closed it just as quickly. Her injured hand—cut a week prior on one of the many kitchen knives in her bakery—tingled. Or maybe it merely ached. She wasn’t sure how to parse her feelings about much of anything anymore.Caleb Thornton never failed to rouse both her irritation and her desire in equal measures. With his careless good looks, green eyes, and angelic grin, he could get the devil himself to do what he wanted with his charm. Couple that with his police u
When Caleb had gotten the call from dispatch that there’d been a robbery at The Rise and Shine, he didn’t consider why he’d driven like a madman to get there, or why the thought of Megan hurt and scared—had she been there when the robbery had occurred?—sent his thoughts into a tailspin.He’d had to force his thoughts into the neat box of a police officer, not a concerned citizen. He had to exude calm and capability, even if everyone around him panicked.It was easier said than done when he walked up to the bakery to see Megan sitting on a bench outside, looking as lost as when he’d arrested her.“Megan, are you all right?”He squatted down in front of her. He almost took her hands, but he wasn’t Caleb Thornton right now: he was Officer Thornton, and he needed to keep a professional distance from this woman. No matter how much it tore him up inside to do so.She glanced up. Her eyes were wide, bright blue, and he was surprised to see that she wasn’t crying. She just looked shocked.
After they’d cleaned up the bakery as much as possible, Harrison slapped a hand on Caleb’s shoulder and said he was going to take him for a drink. “You look like you need it,” he said.Caleb wasn’t sure he was the person who needed a drink the most—Megan probably was the number one candidate—but he wasn’t going to turn down free booze. His shift now over until morning, he let his older brother buy the first round of drinks at the Fainting Goat, a watering hole opened a few years ago in Fair Haven’s small downtown.Owned by Trent Younger, a family friend of the Thorntons, the Fainting Goat had been successful the moment it had opened its doors. Trent now owned a number of restaurants in the area, and last Caleb had heard, he was looking to open a location in Seattle. Trent also had a history with Lizzie Thornton, about which Caleb had always wondered but had never tried to pry. His younger sister, a musician traveling the country at the moment, tended to be tight-lipped about her pers
“Is he seriously going to stand out there all day?” Megan asked in irritation as she wiped down the counter.Jubilee glanced at her before smiling at the customer in front of her. Once she gave the older woman her cinnamon roll and coffee, she replied, “He’s doing his job, you know.”Megan made a face. If doing his job meant being a giant pain in the ass, then Caleb was doing a great job.She watched as he leaned against a light post, his hands in his pockets. He looked deceptively nonchalant, but she knew he was capable of moving at lightning speed if necessary. When she’d come to the bakery that morning, he’d already been outside, sitting in his car and watching over the bakery and the neighborhood overall. She didn’t really understand how this was going to help them uncover the perpetrator, but then again, if it kept her bakery safe from another robbery, she wouldn’t complain. At least not too much.“I heard about what happened,” the next customer said, a young woman with bouncy