Best of Three by Erin Nicholas

Author:Erin Nicholas [Nicholas, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00GEJPNVM
Goodreads: 18459328
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

The woman was shopping in Carl-Mart, for god’s sake, and she looked fantastic.

In fact, Nate was wondering which aisle the sleeping bags were in.

And she was here. Here when he was about to lose his cool and overhead page his son to the front of the store. Here when he was here—without a clue about what else to do.

He knew he was acting like a lunatic. But when Michael hadn’t come home Sunday night and hadn’t answered Nate’s phone calls, he’d panicked. Shane, thank god, took pity on Nate and checked all the police logs and hospitals, reassuring Nate that Michael wasn’t in jail or hospitalized. But that still left a lot of options. When he’d finally swallowed his pride and called Dena, and Shannon had confirmed that Michael was alive and well and staying with friends, Nate had nearly thrown his phone through a window. He was relieved, of course, but pissed. Michael would have known that Nate would have been worried sick. It was this rebellious, inconsiderate behavior that had Nate acting like an idiot. He was camping out in Carl-Mart just for a chance to talk to his son.

Yet somehow when he’d seen Emma coming down the main store aisle toward him, he’d felt better. Relieved. Like he could be a lunatic and she would roll her eyes at him, but she wouldn’t leave. Like he could confess all the things he was worried about and she’d give him that you’re-a-nut-job look but she’d stay and probably point out a bunch of stuff he hadn’t thought of. She might even convince him not to worry.

Now that she was holding his hand too, he wondered how he’d managed to avoid calling her the last three days.

It had been tough.

He’d had a crazy schedule at the hospital and clinic. He’d put in an extra workout. He’d hung out with the guys. But with the guys there was always talk about the girls. Ryan would mention Amanda, Shane would say something about Isabelle, Cody would tell a story he heard from Olivia, and Nate inevitably thought of Emma every time.

And then there was nighttime. When he was alone. Nothing to distract him, no way to avoid the thoughts of her and how badly he wanted her in the bed beside him.

Emma let go of his hand to reach into her bag of pretzels. And he missed her touch.

This was not good.

“There they are,” she said, grabbing his arm to pull him into an aisle in the electronics section.

Nate couldn’t help his smile. “Stalking isn’t okay, but spying is?”

“No, none of this is okay,” Emma said. “But this is better than sitting up front and scowling at everyone like they’ve all kicked your dog and pissed in your beer.”

He looked at her with the combination of exasperation and amusement that was becoming very familiar. “I don’t have a dog.”

“That’s one more thing that’s wrong with you.”

He shook his head. Why did he feel comforted having her with him again? He couldn’t

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