Meeting His Match (A Match Me Novel) (Entangled Lovestruck) by Katee Robert Read Free Book Online Page A

petted the white fur. “It’s okay, girl. I’m just being melodramatic.”
    Because the truth was that helping other people find their soul mates didn’t fulfill her like it used to. She used to be able to almost— almost —feel what they felt as they went through the first steps of falling in love. But she hadn’t had that fluttering feeling in her stomach for a long time now.
    Until Caine.
    The problem was he gave her the fluttery feeling. The last person who affected her so completely was Aiden . It didn’t make any sense. People only got one chance at their soul mate. One try and if it ended early, at least they were blessed enough to have felt that all-encompassing love for even a short time.
    There were no second chances.
    Hadn’t Grandmother told her that over and over again as she was growing up? Her grandparents had had a love story for the ages—meeting on the cusp of World War II when her grandmother was a nurse and her grandfather was a pilot. After a whirlwind courtship and quick marriage, they spent years apart exchanging some of the most romantic letters Addison had ever read. And when the war was done, they had ten years together full of joy and children before her grandfather passed away of a heart attack, leaving Grandmother as a widow and mother of three at thirty-five.
    She could still remember sitting on her grandmother’s knee and listening to the story, the smell of cookies baking in the oven and the chimes softly ringing on the front porch. Plenty of people thought I should remarry and give a father to your mother and uncles, but I told them the same thing I’m telling you—John was my soul mate. He was the love of my life, and you only get one of those. To marry someone else would be a betrayal to that and to the poor man who put a ring on my finger .
    Grandmother had turned ninety this year and she still got that sad smile on her face when she talked about her soul mate.
    “God, I am a downer today.” She nudged Gollum’s head off her thigh and pulled her computer into her lap. She already had the eight profiles up, so it was a matter of setting them side-by-side. As promised, all were beautiful and all were successful in their own right. They ranged from blond to brunette to redhead, so there should be something to his taste no matter what it was.
    Her skin heated as his voice coursed through her memory. I seem to have developed a keen fascination with redheads. He’d been trying to make her uncomfortable. She had to keep that in the front of her mind, because she wasn’t reacting to him like she usually would with a pushy alpha male. Normally, it’d be easy to put on the cold front and shove him back to where he belonged. She’d never had to worry about her losing control before.
    It wasn’t a comforting thought.
    Giving up work for the time being, she kicked off her shoes and went to sit on the floor in the midst of Gollum’s pups. They each had very a distinct personality and she’d privately dubbed them after the Ninja Turtles after she found them digging a pizza out of Caine’s trash can yesterday morning. It was silly, but the names fit in their own way. Mikey was a goofball who could barely walk without tripping over his wide little paws, Leo always seemed to be leading them into mischief, and Donnie was already too smart for his own good. Raph… She leaned over and tapped the floor. As usual, he was sitting back and watching his siblings play rough-and-tumble. “Come here, fella.”
    He reluctantly made his way over and sniffed her fingers, which the other three took as an invitation to play. They piled into her lap, wiggling and yipping and generally being so cute she wanted to take them all home with her when she left. Addison laughed and played with them, letting her stress melt away. There wasn’t much that could worry her in the face of so much puppy love.
    “Is puppy the new black?”
    She screamed, scaring the pups so badly they all started barking. Gollum