What would you do if you found out the
cheating ex that broke your heart, and who is still convinced you haven't
gotten over him, is going to be at your cousin's wedding? Well, you'd ask
your best girlfriend to find you a date really fast, wouldn't you? But
when every guy asked says no thanks, would you really be desperate enough
to take the geeky co-worker you can't stand as your date? Yes,
absolutely! Surely, having the company of a geeky misfit is better than
letting an ex think he's still got a hold on your heart.
At thirty-three, fashionable and career focused Laura Lee thought she'd
never find Mr. Right. She thought she'd found him once but, while she was
busy minding her career, a friend (now former friend) stole Robert away.
Finding the two of them together in bed was bad enough, but when Robert
told her making love with her can be compared to making love to a plank,
Laura was devastated. So, when Laura's mom told her Robert was going to
be at her cousin Joanna's wedding and he had told people she still hadn't
gotten over him after three years, Laura wasn't about to let Robert be
proven right. She needed to find a date for the wedding pronto!
It was totally unlike Laura to confess to a man she barely tolerated that
she'd been unable to find a date for the wedding at such short notice.
But when co-worker Adam Ford, with his shaggy hair, out-dated wire-framed
glasses, and ill-matched thrift store wardrobe offered to help Laura out,
she was just shocked enough to accept his escort. What Laura didn't expect
was that Adam, in a tux, with a stylish haircut, and minus the
wire-framed glasses, would clean up so nicely. Nor did Laura expect that
the man who was usually so silent at work could intrigue her with his
attentiveness and conversation, charm her parents and the other guests,
and rile Robert to a public display of pique and jealousy. Quite
suddenly, Adam was looking like he might be the answer to one woman's
secret dreams.
In a short 34 pages that are a bit reminiscent of the tone of Bridget
Jones' Diary, Joanne Rawson spins a delightfully cute story about a
British woman who finally looks beyond the everyday trappings of a male
co-worker to really see the man underneath. Once the proverbial scales
fall from Laura's eyes, she begins to see that Adam, a man she's always
found irritating, is not really the obnoxious, gawky, reserved man she's
always assumed him to be. Instead, Laura begins to realize that Adam is
everything she's been looking for but was too willfully blind to see.
But, alas, since she's read Adam wrong for so long and never looked
beyond the superficial, can she really read the signals she thinks Adam's
sending her way, or has Lara still got things all wrong? Give this little
gem a read and find out.
Warning: Contains one mildly described scene of a sexual nature.
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