Motorcycle Man had extra-dark Hershey-brown hair that raked across his brows and set off eyes the color of a twilight sky. The rider pulled off his helmet and swung a denim-clad leg over the bike. She bit her lip and steeled herself for another onslaught of pubescent humor. She straightened the sign advertising their sale on fruit baskets, then noticed a motorcycle, gleaming in chrome and black, roar down the street toward her and slip into one of the front spaces. The last thing she wanted was anyone finding out it was her under the peel. Thank God the foam head covered most of her face. Sales or no sales, the costume was humiliating. The four-tone Ford with the teens came swerving back around the corner. She was desperate to make a go of the store-desperate enough to wear the fruit suit. If there was some way to get people to notice the store, maybe Katie wouldn’t feel like such a failure-both personally and business-wise. Plenty of weddings, bar mitzvahs, showers and funerals happened around here, but hardly anyone was buying from A Pair of Posies.
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Katie and Sarah had yet to find a way to crack the hold their competition, Flowers and More, a shop in the nearby city of Lawford, had on Mercy.
The rent was due in two weeks, and unfortunately, their bank account didn’t have a big enough balance to cover it. Sales had been low when they’d opened a year ago and kept dropping. What kind of suicidal tendencies had made her mention the idea of doing something unique to boost sales to Sarah, soon-to-be-ex-best friend and business partner? Apparently, a five-foot-three, twenty-four-year-old woman in a banana suit was the funniest thing in the tiny town of Mercy, Indiana, today.
She might as well have been the Soak-the-Bloke clown for all the respect she’d received. “Hey Chiquita! Can you peel for me?” A carload of teenagers screamed past her. She’d checked hers the minute Sarah had talked her into masquerading as a piece of fruit, all to increase sales. Standing on a street corner in a banana suit was not the most humiliating thing to happen in Katie’s life, but it came in at a close second.ĭressed from head to toe in yellow felt, she barely remembered what the word dignity meant. But remembering the kisses they shared were supposed to be pretend became more difficult, when all Matt wanted to do was to make love to the appealing Katie! Was the virgin's proposal turning into something…real?Ĭhapter One (#uc1ceb5aa-a9a2-5a42-b4bd-c55557a3d1fa)Ĭhapter Two (#ucb3ce79d-69cc-5195-aa4d-7b51d198ae6c)Ĭhapter Three (#ud3f6438f-124e-527b-9dbe-62f348f9b551) But he'd never thought that to appear "respectable," he'd become the pretend fiancé of a banana-wearing storeowner! Yet how could he refuse spunky Katie Dole, the woman under the costume, when she kissed him so sweetly– and so thoroughly–in the spaghetti aisle of the supermarket?Her blue-green gaze implored him to play the role of lover to show up her ex-fiancé. HOW COULD HE TURN DOWN A BANANA IN DISTRESS?Successful rebel Matt Webster came to make peace with his past and his family.
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