A Lot Like Family by Kathryn Cantrell

Author:Kathryn Cantrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
Publisher: Brazoria House Books
Published: 2020-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

By Monday evening, Ember still hadn't worked out whether Hudson intended to show up for dinner or not.

Since Serenity owned the only kitchen in the hotel, Ember had talked her into a two-hour loan without having to cough up the real reason why. Her aunt had bought the excuse that Ember owed Hudson dinner for the work he'd done to get the bar set up.

Serenity didn't have to know that "dinner" also carried the label "experiment."

Because what else could she call it? It wasn't a date. She didn't date, and she had a feeling Hudson didn't do much of that either. It wasn't a casual dinner between friends. She'd drawn a line in the sand with absolutely no idea what was going to happen if he stepped over it.

Monday was her one night off, a luxury she'd never had in Austin, and normally she spent it with Judd. Nights off as a bartender meant gaps in income, but as a business owner, she had a set salary that Hudson had worked out in the business plan. It was a completely different mindset to not have to worry about variable income or a rainstorm that kept customers away. That was Hudson's concern as the keeper of the books.

Cassidy and Tristan had volunteered to babysit Judd, and he was thrilled to get an invite to spend the night at Tallhorse's farm, where he could run around the property to his heart's content. But that left Ember with nothing to focus on but dinner and Hudson. Assuming he didn't leave her hanging.

He didn't.

His brusque knock at the door nearly separated her skin from bone. But she collected herself long enough to cross Serenity's hodgepodge living room on watery knees without them giving out, so that was a plus.

But when she swung open the door, ending up on the floor became a very real possibility.

Hudson had dressed for the occasion. And how.

Her stomach fluttered in the oddest way as she drank him in. The man should wear a white button-down shirt twenty-four seven. Scratch that. Then everyone would get to experience the visual treat standing in the hallway, and she'd just gotten very greedy all at once.

Holy cow did he have a set of shoulders on him. She could spend the entire night counting the ways she appreciated his skill in picking out dinner clothes.

He hadn't spoken yet—par for the course—so she didn't bother to break the silence since he seemed likewise occupied with cataloging her in kind, his gaze sweeping down her emerald green dress and back up again to the messy knot at her crown.

If she'd known he was going to show up looking like the centerfold of Every Girl's Dream Man Magazine, she'd have done more than slap some cosmetics on her face and slide on a five-year-old Ralph Lauren dress she'd found at a thrift store.

Although the expression his face had taken on as he checked her out made her skin pebble with goosebumps. There was no mistaking that he appreciated what he saw.

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