A Camden Family Wedding by Victoria Pade

Author:Victoria Pade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

On Monday night after Vonni and Dane had both worked late, Vonni found a way to kill two birds with one stone. The bartender she was recommending to Dane was working at a restaurant across from the Larimer Square lounge where the quartet they were checking out was playing.

This time Vonni insisted that she buy Dane dinner, which they ate at the bar while the bartender made samples of his specialty drinks for them to taste.

A sip here, a sip there, no more than a sip, but by the time the meal was finished Vonni was very relaxed. So relaxed that when they stepped out of the restaurant as darkness was just falling, she lost sight of the fact that she wasn’t on a date and grabbed Dane’s arm to stop him so they could watch the canopy of white streetlights coming on overhead.

The lights set the historic street apart from other Denver streets, but all she could really think about in the moment was her hold on Dane. She was grasping his bare forearm—thick and warm and strong—and she knew she had no business making this kind of contact, let alone liking the feel of it as much as she did.

She forced herself to let go and watched as the rest of the lights went on. Then she commanded herself to get back to business and only business.

But as they started to cross the street, Dane placed a hand to her back. And while more alarms went off in her head, she still couldn’t help enjoying that sensation of physical contact.

Or moving a little closer to his side.

The Larimer Lounge was down a flight of stairs bordered by a wrought iron railing. Dane kept his hand on her back as they went from the sidewalk into the stairwell. At the foot of the stairs he opened the single door to the place and urged her in ahead of him.

That was when he broke contact, and Vonni fought a pang of disappointment even as she told herself to quit it.

Inside they were faced with a small bar in a square pit. A hostess greeted them and took them around the bar to one of the tables that surrounded the dance floor.

The basement establishment was dimly lit, with scant light over the bar, over the dance floor and only slightly brighter light over the bandstand where the Fisher Quartet had already begun to play.

The place wasn’t overly crowded and the clientele tended to be older. But Dane didn’t seem to mind as he held out her chair for her and then took the one next to it for himself so that they were both facing the stage.

“The singer has a good voice,” he observed after the waitress had brought them their order of two iced teas and they’d listened to a song. “He has that old crooner sound. GiGi likes that. I’m going to have her listen....”

He placed the call and after getting his grandmother on the line, held his cell phone in the direction of the singer for a few minutes.

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