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New Milton, Tome 3 : Twice Shy



Description ajoutée par Aikawa 2019-12-01T21:22:33+01:00

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The last thing Joel Morgan wants is to fall in love again. Scarred by his failed marriage, Joel’s determined to keep his life emotionally stable—which means taking a job teaching fourth grade, fixing up his house on weekends, and avoiding absolutely all romantic entanglements. And he's doing great.

Until he meets sweet but struggling single dad, Ollie Snow.

Following the tragic death of his sister and her husband two years earlier, Ollie became the legal guardian of their two young sons—much to the horror of the boys’ conservative grandparents. They think Ollie’s too young and too unreliable to raise their grandsons. So to prove them wrong, Ollie’s determined to parent the boys without anyone’s help.

Until he meets reserved but caring teacher, Joel Morgan.

As the only two men in the school’s Parent-Teacher Association, Joel and Ollie are thrown together over a series of fundraising events, and somewhere between the Beach Fun Run and the Fall Festival they fall in love. But Ollie has another reason for moving to New Milton—a reason he’s keeping close to his chest—and Joel’s wounded heart won’t trust a man with secrets.

Dare they hope for a future together, or will their past pain keep them apart forever?

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Extrait ajouté par Aikawa 2019-12-06T21:48:31+01:00

“Mr. Morgan?”

Joel looked up from grading books to see Liz Benton poking her head around his classroom door. She had one of her kindergarteners in tow, a shy looking boy in red shorts and a rainbow tie-dye t-shirt. “Hey,” he said, smiling at the kid. “Who’s this?”

“This is Rory Palmer,” Liz said. “His carer’s running late and I have a parent consultation in five. Would you mind keeping an eye on him until he’s picked up?”

“Sure. I’m sticking around for the Welcome Cookout anyway.”

Liz raised her eyebrows. “Who volunteered you for that?”

“Me, actually.” He rolled his eyes at her expression. “What? I have the time.” And plenty of it. Time had been one of the key stipulations of his new low-stress life. Time and space: life on the evenest of keels. It’s what he’d needed after his old life imploded, exactly what the doctor had ordered in fact. And if it was a little lonely at times, then so be it. Better than the alternative.

He stood up from his desk. “Hey, Rory, come on in. It’s lucky you’re here, because I need some help tidying my classroom. You any good at tidying?”

“He’s great at it!” Liz said, smiling encouragingly. “Off you go, Rory. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

Joel got the kid scrambling around gathering pencils and erasers and putting them into the right pots, but he didn’t miss how often the boy’s anxious gaze flicked out the window to the parking lot. With his dark hair and wide eyes, he was a cute kid. But unusually serious as he carefully sorted the pencils into the correct colors.

When a car finally pulled into the lot, a beat-up old blue Honda, Rory jumped to his feet and the first smile Joel had seen broke out on his face. A young man climbed out of the car and—

Okay. It was him.

Joel had noticed the guy around school since the beginning of the semester. He was hard to miss among all the moms. For one thing, he was at least ten years younger than most of them. For another, he was out, proud, and leaving it in no doubt. In skinny jeans that showed off lean hips and legs, and a tight t-shirt that, today, read ‘Normal’ in rainbow letters, he looked like any one of the beautiful young men Joel had admired from a distance throughout his six-year marriage to Helen. Except that this guy’s brown hair, instead of being carefully styled, was a curly, unruly mess that suggested he’d missed a hairdresser’s appointment six months ago and never rebooked. Somehow it contradicted the rest of him—as if he was dressing up in somebody else’s clothes.

“That’s your daddy, huh?” Joel said, smiling as Rory pressed his nose to the window and started waving.

“No.” The kid didn’t turn around. “My daddy and mommy are in heaven. That’s Ollie.”

Shit. Joel grimaced. Thanks for the heads up, Liz. “I’m sad to hear about your daddy and mommy, Rory.”

“I’m sad too, sometimes,” Rory said. “But I’m not sad now.”

“Well, that’s good.” Joel smiled, his heart pinging. In the three years he’d been teaching, kids had never stopped surprising him. “You wanna grab your backpack and we’ll go find Ollie?”

By the time they reached the parking lot, Ollie had wrangled another kid out of the car—a sturdy looking toddler—and had the trunk open.

“Ollie!” Rory yelled as soon as they were outside, racing across the empty parking lot towards him.

Ollie grinned, crouching to catch the kid in his arms. “Hey buddy, sorry I’m late.”

It was a touching moment and Joel was moved by the sight of this young man and the boy he was apparently parenting. He felt a dangerous, unsettling pang of envy and swiftly set it aside. No point in going there; that boat had sailed. Or, rather, foundered on the rocks and sunk without trace.

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Commentaire ajouté par Aikawa 2019-12-06T21:41:22+01:00
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Un dernier tome super sympa :)

J'ai adoré Ollie qui est très touchant avec ses neveux et qui se bat pour les élever du mieux possible. Joel est aussi touchant de par son histoire avec son ex-femme, qui l'a menée à la dépression et à un manque de confiance.

Ce qui est cool, c'est qu'on recroise ici tous les personnages des tomes précédents : Finn et Josh, Alfie et Leo et Luca et Théo. Avec une petite "surprise" en prime ! Spoiler(cliquez pour révéler)Je ne m'attendais pas à ce que Luca soit le frère de Ollie !

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