Watch Over Me
Selene Grace Silver
1938
Boring means routine, peaceful. Driven by professional goals, pragmatic Benjamin Carver does not have time for a protected—far too young for him—society Miss intent on annoying him with pointless philosophical arguments, especially when she’s the daughter of a man he needs to impress. His work has been significantly more manageable since she left for Europe. Also, more boring. Which he prefers. But now she has returned, disrupting his organized, controlled life forever with more forbidden kisses.
Boring means dull, colorless. All Maria Galtero wants to do is create. She prefers art to business, philosophy to politics. But she’s drawn to the seemingly heartless engineer who stays with her family while he completes government work on their land. She even went abroad to avoid the stiff suit, only to discover he was the one she thought about most while she was away. Something about his cool reserve makes her want to light him on fire. Will a year of banked attraction and a few months apart combust when they reunite during a storm of the century?
Watch Over Me originally appeared in the 2024 Orange County Romance Writers' anthology Romancing Orange County. This version is slightly updated with an added brief epilogue.
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