We kissed quickly, then Oliver leaned slightly toward the edge of the roof. “She said yes!” he shouted.
Immediately I heard cheers and applause from down below. Open-mouthed, I walked nearer to the edge and saw almost my entire family—and his—gathered below. My parents, April, Mack and Frannie and all three of the girls, Aunt Nell, Uncle Soapy, Gran, Hughie and Lisa and their boys. Even Charlotte was there with Guy and their brand new baby. I smiled and waved. “I said yes! It’s for real this time!”
“Come down for champagne!” April called.
“But take the ladder!” my mother yelled frantically. “No jumping!”
Oliver and I laughed and held hands as we carefully walked back toward the loft. Once we were safely off the roof and inside the barn, I couldn’t resist throwing my arms around him again. He wrapped me up in his embrace and spun me around, my heels in the air.
Laughing, I buried my face in his neck. “I never want my feet to touch the ground, Oliver.”
“Good,” he said. “Because this leap goes on forever.”
The End
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Acknowledgments
Much love and gratitude to the following people!
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About the Author
Melanie Harlow likes her heels high, her martini dry, and her history with the naughty bits left in. In addition to The Cloverleigh Farms Series, she’s the author of the One and Only Series, the After We Fall Series, the Happy Crazy Love Series, the Frenched Series, Hold You Close and Imperfect Match （co-authored with Corinne Michaels）， Strong Enough （a M/M romance co-authored with David Romanov）， and The Speak Easy Duet （a historical romance set in the 1920s）。 She writes from her home outside of Detroit, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. When she’s not writing, she’s probably got a cocktail in hand. And sometimes when she is.
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Undeniable
Melanie Harlow
MH Publishing
Copyright © 2019 by Melanie Harlow All rights reserved.
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Cover Photography: Regina Wamba Cover Design: Hang Le Editing: Nancy Smay, Evident Ink Formatting: Stacey Blake, Champagne Book Design
For all the incredible writers who attended the Gatlinburg Madcap Retreat.
You taught me, you encouraged me, you inspired me.
Loving someone requires a leap of faith, and a soft landing is never guaranteed.
Sarah Dessen
Contents
1. Chloe
2. Chloe
3. Oliver
4. Chloe
5. Oliver
6. Chloe
7. Chloe
8. Oliver
9. Chloe
10. Oliver
11. Chloe
12. Oliver
13. Chloe
14. Oliver
15. Chloe
16. Chloe
17. Oliver
18. Oliver
19. Chloe
20. Oliver
21. Chloe
22. Oliver
23. Chloe
24. Chloe
25. Oliver
26. Chloe
Epilogue
What to read next!
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Acknowledgments
About the Author
1
Chloe
THEN
“Are you sure?”
“Of course I’m sure,” Oliver scoffed. “I’ve jumped off way higher roofs than this.”
“Because it seems like a long way down.”
He shrugged. “Maybe to someone like you.”
“Like me how?”
Oliver gave me a side-eyed, shit-eating grin as he flapped his elbows and clucked like a chicken.
“Stop it!” I punched him in the arm. He knew I hated being called chicken or scaredy-cat or baby, or any of the other names he called me because I wasn’t a fan of heights. Or the dark. Or thunderstorms. Or snakes. He was exactly the type of kid who got you to tell him your secret fears and then used them against you. “I’m not a chicken.”
“So jump.”
“I’m going to.” I jerked my chin at him and stared down at the ground from the roof of the pole barn on my family’s small farm. It was late August, hotter than blazes at four in the afternoon, and the sun had baked the mud below into a crusted, chocolate-milk-colored pit. Oliver had dared me to jump, then bet me his Tamagotchi I wouldn’t.
I might have been able to resist the dare—although it’s iffy—but I really wanted that Tamagotchi. I’d asked for one last Christmas but had gotten a Barbie instead, which I’d given to my little sister Frannie almost immediately. （I did give her one fabulous night with Ken first. My Barbies were into sex.） “You’re really gonna give me your Tamagotchi?” I asked. I’d known Oliver practically since birth, and if I knew one thing about him, it was that he could not be trusted. All of his ideas got us into trouble.