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A high-pitched shriek finally pulled his attention from his research. Stretching his arms overhead, he rolled his shoulders to release several hours’ worth of accumulated tension as he moved closer to the window.
His brothers were engaged in a spirited game of football along with their women. Although after watching for just a few seconds it was clear the game was less about competition and more about giving his brothers ample opportunity to tackle the girls.
A strange sensation rose in his chest as he watched his younger brother Nick grab his wife around the waist and lift her off her feet. Raina squealed but laughed heartily as they both fell to the ground. The football tumbled to the side, forgotten, as she threw her arms around his brother’s shoulders and kissed him. A second later, his brother Elliott appeared and grabbed the football off the ground and ran to the other side of the yard, holding his arms above his head in victory. His fiancée Kaylee cheered while his youngest brother Jackson and his wife, Ridley, watched them indulgently.
Bennett turned from the window, swallowing down the tickle of longing he felt. For years he’d accepted the fact that while he was extraordinarily gifted in many areas, there was one subject where he would never excel.
Flirting.
The strange rituals of courtship between men and women were the one subject that he had never been able to master. He was awkward and always had been. He’d long accepted that he was one of the people that functioned better solo and it was illogical to focus on an area he had no aptitude for. If he hadn’t figured it out after thirty-two years, then it wasn’t going to happen. It was better to spend his time on the things that he understood, like his research.
He walked back over to his worktable. The gloriously perfect soil sample on the slide was the culmination of months of experimentation and testing. His family’s farming co-op was constantly looking for ways to increase yield without sacrificing the quality of their crops. His parents had given him complete leeway to develop soil, fertilizer and innovative farming techniques to make it happen.
Some people hated the tedium of testing but he found it soothing. Everything about science was calm. Logical. Why couldn’t life be like an experiment?Things would be so much easier.
If you do this, then you will get a certain result.
Observe and note the results and adjust how you proceed accordingly. No one expected to have perfect results in the lab.
His gaze fell to the square piece of paper on the center island. It was heavy cardstock with that curly, metallic lettering that was really hard to read. But even his terrible eyesight couldn’t miss it. He’d been nominated for an award. Which meant he would have to attend the awards ceremony.
He sighed.
Since he’d been ignoring his mail for the past month, his mother must have put it there so he’d see it. Ignoring things that he found uncomfortable was his usual way of navigating a world that was often baffling and many times humiliating. But his mother had already seen the invitation and if he knew anything about Julia Alexander it was that she wanted her children to be happy. She couldn’t understand that he was happy here, just as he was.
Alone with his work.
Alone with his thoughts.
Alone.
It was how he’d always been, even in the midst of a large extended family. But she wouldn’t understand that. His eyes strayed over to the window again where he could still hear the faint sounds of shrieking and laughter.
He was starting to understand it less and less himself.
Frustrated, his hand shot out and knocked the invitation to the floor. It made him feel ridiculous to have this sense of dissatisfaction with his life when he had achieved so much. He had a PhD in Molecular Biology, spoke several languages fluently and was in the process of filing for his tenth patent.
He didn’t need anything else.
Series Information
The Alexanders and Friends
1 - One More Day
2 - The Things I Do for You
3 - All I Want - prequel
4 - All I Need is You
5 - Just One Thing
6 - One More Chance
7 - With This Ring - short stories
8 - Birthday Cake (The Simmons)
9 - He's the Man (The Simmons)
10 - Say You Will (The Simmons)
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The New York Times bestselling author of One More Day returns with a heartwarming romantic comedy about two complete opposites on a quest to discover the formula for dating success.
Bennett Alexander is a scientist, an inventor and speaks four languages but the intricacies of the social contract are something he’s never mastered. His childhood friend, Olivia, is the only one who understands him but he has no idea how to go from friends to lovers. If only love could be like one of his lab experiments; start with a hypothesis, control the variables and then test until you find a solution.
Katie Mason is everything he is not. Warm, funny and beloved by his entire family, she’s also a single mother desperate for a job after a painful divorce. With her help, Bennett decides to run the most important experiment of his life. Katie will be the control and with her help, he will test how to modify his behavior. Once he finds the formula for attraction, he might have a shot at being the kind of guy a woman could fall for.
With Katie as his teacher, they embark on a series of unorthodox dating lessons. Soon she has him doing the craziest things from going on fake dinner dates to reading fantasy novels to having…fun.
From what he can tell, there’s just one thing wrong with his experiment – the fact that Katie seems to like him exactly the way he is.
What’s a brilliant scientist to do when he suspects that he’s falling in love?
