MARRYING MY MOTH LADY (MONSTER BRIDES ROMANCE) BY MARILYN BARR – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Marilyn Barr
- Language: English
- Genre: Paranormal / Sci-Fi
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Horus
I didn’t attend graduate school for ten years with student loans up to
my eyeballs to woo investors. I ran for the hills to escape the social scene of
Ohio State University…but I guess deep in the Appalachian Mountains
wasn’t far enough.
Half my audience is bored to death. The other half watch me with
hero-worship shining in their expressions. Unfortunately, the people rolling
their eyes and playing with the office supplies on their tables are the ones
with the money we need.
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“Wing-by-wing, I believe we can keep the Danaus plexippus off the
endangered species list. With the help of the Winged Wildlife and Abundant
Earth Foundation, the monarch butterfly migration path will withstand the
development of West Virginia’s population centers. Thank you for your time
and for listening to our proposal. Any questions?” I take my first deep
breath since I started my hour-long presentation. My glasses balance on the
tip of my nose, so I remove them to polish the lenses with the cuff of my
sleeve—an obvious sign that I’m done.
Baked. Over it. One foot out the door.
Ugh, public speaking. There’s a reason I study bugs and not people.
After a slight snafu when I dropped my notes, the ordeal is over…
and not a moment too soon. My anxiety kicked off a colitis flare, so the
sooner I can excuse myself to the restroom, the better. I hate that I’m the
face of this project. My personal connection to the main stockholder of the
Winged Wildlife and Abundant Earth Foundation is the only reason I’m
here. Any other potential investor and I’d be deep in the forest, pretending
my spam folder ate my invitation.
I wanted to pump my fists in the air at my triumphant finish, but I
sweated through my dress shirt on the drive to Lakin Wildlife Center. If the
investors buy into my plan, this center will double in size with a butterfly
conservation habitat built behind it. Maybe a few honeybee hives on the
edge of the property too. The other entomologists, ecologists, and
conservationists hold their breath while Mr. Eli Carter Jr. swishes his diet
cola around his mouth. After the locals voted down our tax levy, his
foundation is our last hope of saving the monarch butterfly. We can’t go
back to the ballot after such a disastrous defeat the first time.
“This butterfly park,” Eli says with a thick Appalachian accent.
“Can any bug use it?”
I’m sorry, what? It’s not like I can post a yellow jacket at the door as
a bouncer.
“Yes, sir,” I say, masking my annoyance with a toothy grin, “the
native wildflowers should attract any pollinator within a mile radius—
maybe further, depending on the species. There won’t be pesticides or
herbicides to detract from the colonization efforts.”
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