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- Herausgeber: Lorhainne Eckhart, INC.
- Serie: The Friessens
- Sprache: Englisch
Cat & Xander return in a Friessen Family novella about hurdles in this young couple’s relationship
Cat and Xander have been living together for years and for Cat it’s everything she wants until an unexpected complication changes everything in this couple's relationship.
But for Xander having Cat means she comes with her very opinionated and interfering father Neil who is always sticking his nose into their relationship. Only this time it isn’t Xander Neil will be butting heads with when Cat refuses to marry Xander, but his very stubborn daughter whose somehow believes that marriage isn’t for her. How far will Xander have to go to convince Cat that marrying him isn’t the worst idea ever?
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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Anything For You COPYRIGHT © Lorhainne Ekelund, 2019 All Rights Reserved.
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This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Anything For You
A Friessen Family Novella
Lorhainne Eckhart
Contents
The Friessen Family Series Reading order:
The Friessen Family Tree
Anything For You
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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What’s coming next in The Friessens
Chapter 1, The Homecoming
Chapter 2, The Homecoming
A brand new series is now available
The Third Call
About the Author
Links to Lorhainne Eckhart’s Booklist
The Friessen Family Series Reading order:
Click here to download the complete Friessen Legacy Series checklist and series reading order
The Outsider Series
The Forgotten Child (Brad and Emily)
A Baby And A Wedding
Fallen Hero (Andy, Jed, and Diana)
The Search
The Awakening (Andy and Laura)
Secrets (Jed and Diana)
Runaway (Andy and Laura)
Overdue
The Unexpected Storm (Neil and Candy)
The Wedding (Neil and Candy)
The Friessens: A New Beginning
The Deadline (Andy and Laura)
The Price to Love (Neil and Candy)
A Different Kind of Love (Brad and Emily)
A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas
The Friessens
The Reunion
The Bloodline (Andy & Laura)
The Promise (Diana & Jed)
The Business Plan (Neil & Candy)
The Decision (Brad & Emily)
First Love (Katy)
Family First
Leave the Light On
In the Moment
In the Family: A Friessen Family Christmas
In the Silence
In the Stars
In the Charm
Unexpected Consequences
It Was Always You
The First Time I Saw You
Welcome to My Arms
Welcome to Boston
I’ll Always Love You
Ground Rules
A Reason to Breathe
You Are My Everything
Anything For You
The Homecoming includes FREE short story When They Were Young
Stay Away From My Daughter
The Bad Boy
A Place to Call Our Own
The Visitor
All About Devon
Long Past Dawn
How to Heal a Heart
Want to know how all the series are linked? Stop by my blog for all the details: http://www.lorhainneeckhart.com/what-is-the-reading-order-of-your-books/
Now Available at a specially reduced price, The Friessen Legacy Collections:
1) The Outsider Series: The Complete Omnibus Collection
2) The Friessens A New Beginning: The Collection
3) The Friessens Books 1 - 5 Box Set
4) The Friessens Books 6 -8
5) The Friessen Books 9 - 11
6) The Friessen Books 12 - 14
7) The Friessen Books 15 - 18
8) The Friessen Books 19 -21
9. The Friessen Books 22 - 25
10) The Friessens Books 26 - 28
The Friessen Family Tree
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Anything For You
Cat & Xander return in a Friessen Family novella about hurdles in this young couple’s relationship
Cat and Xander have been living together for years and for Cat it’s everything she wants until an unexpected complication changes everything in this couple's relationship.
But for Xander having Cat means she comes with her very opinionated and interfering father Neil who is always sticking his nose into their relationship. Only this time it isn’t Xander Neil will be butting heads with when Cat refuses to marry Xander, but his very stubborn daughter whose somehow believes that marriage isn’t for her. How far will Xander have to go to convince Cat that marrying him isn’t the worst idea ever?
Chapter 1
Cat had been unusually quiet as of late, Xander thought. She strode into the bedroom in a cotton tank and pajama shorts, and he was already in bed, waiting for her. Molly, her Labrador hearing dog, was at the foot of the bed, and Sadie, her rescued shepherd cross, was on the floor on a big dog bed. Flee, the speckled gray Great Dane she’d also rescued, was curled up with Sadie, and all the dogs were watching her.
She ran her hand over each of them and signed good night. It was just something she did, no matter how ridiculous it looked to him. They were her dogs, her support, her safety, her everything, and she depended on them as much as they did on her. The bond between them was both deep and strong, and unbreakable.
When she sat, he tapped her shoulder even though she still had her component attached behind her ear. She flicked her eyes his way, the odd shade of blue that was always filled with such mystery.
“You need to do something about Molly,” he said. “She can join her sisters on the floor.”
She just smiled as she shook her head and then patted the bed, a gesture for Molly to come closer, which she did, scooting up to sit with her paws forward, wagging her tail, which flicked against Xander’s leg.
“She been sleeping with me since you got her for me, and I like having her here,” Cat said, nuzzling Molly’s face with hers. She kissed her head. “You’re such a good girl,” she said in that baby-talk way. Yeah, she loved her dogs—and so did he, considering they were her ears and kept her safe from everything, the streets, the people. Only now Molly was between him and her on their bed.
“She’s a dog,” Xander said. “She can go to our feet, or better yet, the floor.” He gestured to Molly, snapping his finger and pointing, but she was having none of it from him, as she merely looked from him to Cat. He couldn’t remember when it was that she’d started listening to Cat over him. “Traitor,” he added.
He took in Cat’s smirk, but she nonetheless clapped her hands and gestured to the foot of the bed. Molly moved, and Cat slid into bed beside him and pulled the clip from her honey-gold hair, letting it fall to her shoulders. She leaned in and pressed a kiss to his lips, then went to reach around to take her component off from behind her ear, but he reached out and slid his hand over her wrist to stop her.
“Hey,” he said. “You haven’t said anything about your brother and Angie. Michael invited us up to one of his games, to stay for the weekend, but you didn’t say anything. I told him today we’d get back to him. I think he wants you to meet Angie.”
Cat hadn’t said a word to him about the invite since Michael had called that afternoon. When he’d asked, she’d only pulled in a breath as if considering something and then walked away. It had been the same since she’d learned what Michael had done, having a drunken birthday celebration in Vegas and waking up married.
“I didn’t think you liked Michael,” she said, “but now you’re conversing with him like you two are best buds or something.”
Okay, maybe he’d been a little too vocal on his opinion of her brother, who had always given him the impression of someone who’d had things way too easy: his privileged childhood with a family of means, his career in the pros, and now his carefree lifestyle in the league.
“I helped him out because he’s family,” Xander said, “but I never said I didn’t like Michael. He’s your brother. I just think he expects to have everything handed to him and hasn’t had to work as hard as everyone else out there. He gets himself in trouble, and…”
“And you think he deserved what happened to him, his drunken marriage.” Cat cut him off.
He wasn’t sure what to make of her remark or the way she was staring at him now. The Michael and Cat relationship was a minefield that he wasn’t sure how to traverse. It was tricky and filled with far too many unexpected triggers.
“Well, he’s still married to her, and you’ve yet to meet her. I didn’t say he deserved it. I said that he screwed up big time, and he did. The drinking, the parties, the girls… He’s far from a saint, and yeah, in my opinion, he was irresponsible. But then, your dad has always made it too easy for him, done so much. Even with you, he still hovers.”
Neil Friessen was always sticking his nose in their relationship, and even after all these years he and Cat had been together, it was a source of contention between them.
“My mom and dad love us, and my dad just wants us to be happy,” she said. It wasn’t lost on him that she still hadn’t answered him about going to Vancouver, visiting her brother and meeting Angie, his wife.
“You’re blowing me off again about Michael. Is that a yes or a no? Doesn’t matter to me one way or the other, but he is your brother. I’m trying to be supportive here, Cat.”
He knew he’d been a bit of a dick, trashing her brother and pointing out all his flaws over and over, but Cat was doing what she did when she was conflicted: She said nothing and busied her hands in folding the sheet over the blanket. Her face gave nothing away, either, so he rolled on his side, propped up on his elbow, allowing his hand to skim over her bare legs, her thighs.
Her hand rested over his, and she flicked her gaze over to him. Ah, there it was in the complexity of her expression. Something was going on.
“Not sure now is the time,” she said, “but sometime…yeah, sure.”
Boy, that was noncommittal. She shrugged, and he had a feeling this wasn’t about Michael—but then, he could be wrong.
“Well, that was really cryptic. You haven’t said two words about his situation or about Angie. Are you pissed, not interested, ready to write him off? Like, what? Seriously, come on, Cat.”
