ANTE UP (7-Stud Club Book 3) by Christie Ridgway

Author:Christie Ridgway [Ridgway, Christie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christie Ridgway
Published: 2020-06-09T07:00:00+00:00

Cooper hadn’t come up with a solution to his Willow problem at the moment when he left her at the lake, nor when he first saw her again at Fun & Games, and especially not when he’d surrendered to temptation and kissed her in the photo booth.

Basically, he figured he was sentenced to some period of misery. Given his lack of experience with the inconvenient feelings she’d provoked in him, he could only imagine it was like a bout of flu. Heat, chills, a need for hydration—several nightly beers—and then it would move on, to leave in its wake a lingering fatigue and a vague memory of wild dreams.

There really was nothing else to do but wait for recovery.

I heard what you wanted and what you didn’t want from me.

He’d told her those words and that night at the lake he’d willingly accepted what she’d offered. He hadn’t expected more…didn’t want more.

Right?

Right.

Hell, he wouldn’t know what to do with more.

So he went on with his life, his routines, smiling, pouring beers—drinking beers—and working out in his condo complex’s gym to sweat out the booze.

This morning, more routine, he’d walked to Harry’s for coffee and checked the community bulletin board for notices of nearby garage or estate sales. His eye caught on one a short distance away and he headed out, mood improving. Discovering an overlooked treasure would prove he was in luck again.

Halfway down Shorebird Road he spied a handwritten poster stapled to a telephone pole and felt that little itch between his shoulder blades, telling him some special booty was within his grasp. Picking up his pace, he made for a stucco bungalow and its tidy front yard. The vintage metal rocker on the postage-stamp front porch hinted at the items he might expect to find inside.

Classic examples of board games, poker gear from any bygone era, and old DVDs were high on Cooper’s wish list. About five years before, he’d found a stash of blockbuster posters that had come from an old movie theater. Though he still regretted not keeping a single one, he’d sold the entire collection at a tidy profit that he’d sunk into the winery.

Ten minutes passed as he perused the built-in bookshelves in the living room. He didn’t need dusty copies of John D. McDonald or Graham Greene paperbacks. But who could resist the chance to study someone else’s reading choices? On the lowest shelf sat stacks of old National Geographic magazines which would have titillated his gang when they were curious eight-year-olds.

Leaving the reading matter behind, he wandered through a dining room—crystal and old porcelain ashtrays—then the kitchen. Gelatin molds, cookie cutters, and three fondue pots. Huh. He lingered over those, wondering if Sophie might have a use for them in her catering business. Being a good brother, he took a photo and texted it along with the details.

Fellow browsers searched for their particular interests and he followed a dad and young boy on their way out the rear door. According to what

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