A Little Secret About Love (Silver Ridge Series Book 2) by Karice Bolton

Author:Karice Bolton [Bolton, Karice]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2018-03-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“I can’t get a read on her.” Sam sighed and glanced at Joel. “One minute, I think she’s interested, and the next, I think she can’t run away fast enough.”

“Maybe that’s why you’re so interested in her.” Joel grinned “Finally a woman who doesn’t fall down at your feet and worship you.”

Sam laughed and shook his head. “I’m not into that.”

“Really,” Joel said flatly.

Sam ignored his brother and glanced in his grandmother’s direction. She was dressed as a skeleton. Even though Sam knew it was Halloween, it was always startling to see people wandering around town with their costumes on, and Grandma Martha was no exception. She was busy training a new high school student how to run the cash register for the bakery and, thankfully, was plenty occupied.

“The worst part of this whole thing is that I swear to God every time I see Dina, she gets more beautiful than the last.”

“You’re falling for her harder than I thought.” Joel took a bite of pecan pie and made a satisfied grunt.

“I think I need a dog,” Sam grumbled. “One like Oscar.”

“Well, Oscar’s one of a kind so that might be kind of difficult.”

“That he is,” Sam agreed. “But I do need a companion like that who is loyal and puts up with me. I don’t think I’m going to find it anywhere else.”

“You always said you couldn’t get a dog because—”

Sam’s glare stopped his brother in his tracks. “I know what I said, but people change. I’m ready for that kind of responsibility.”

Joel let out a sigh and sat back in the chair. “Are you though? Are you really ready to get up several times in the middle of the night to teach your puppy to go potty outside?”

“Do I have to use the word potty?” Sam laughed.

“It’s better than tinkle.”

“Not by much.” Sam shook his head.

“What about when you want to take off on one of your weekend trips? Who’s going to watch your puppy then?”

“If you’ve noticed, I haven’t been taking them.”

“You’re in a phase right now.”

“A phase?”

“I think you got a taste of something you liked, and for the first time ever, you can’t have more.”

Sam thought back to the kiss last week with Dina. It was sweet, delicious, and drove him to want so much more.

Again.

But she pulled away, and he knew he couldn’t rush things with her. He had to prove that he could be what she wanted and that would take time.

Lots of it.

He also didn’t want his brother to be right.

“It’s true I want more, but it’s not because I can’t have her. It’s because I really like her, and the more I find out about her, the more I want to uncover. And I don’t see how getting a dog is going to change that one way or another.”

“That’s a step in the right direction.” Joel finished off his pie.

Sam understood why his brother was skeptical of his motives, but he didn’t think Joel would be quite this hard on him.

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