Blitzed (Rules of Possession Book 3) by S.E. Harmon

Author:S.E. Harmon [Harmon, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-31T18:30:00+00:00

18

ANDREW

My brother’s wife really needed to get a hobby. Kim was obsessed with setting me up. I dropped in for lunch with my brother at the Grill and she made sure we were seated in Quinn’s section, who had a huge crush on me that was equal parts sweet and embarrassing. The second time she spilled juice on the table, I glared at Grant.

To his credit, he looked a little sheepish. He waited for Quinn to bustle off before he murmured, “She means well. You know how Kim can be.”

I sighed because yeah the fuck I did. I glanced over at the kitchen window across the busy bar and only caught a glimpse of a shadow and a fluff of brown ponytail as she disappeared from view.

Quinn was a nice girl. Pretty. Sweet. But she wasn’t the person occupying the majority of my thoughts. No, that dubious honor belonged to a certain person who shall remain nameless—cough, Jesse—that decided to answer my amazing hey text with a simple hey of his own. I huffed. We were about two degrees away from s’up, bro, and that was unacceptable.

As if she hadn’t been watching her handiwork through the pass-through, Kim swept out of the kitchen with two brunch specials. “Waffles, anyone?”

“Always,” I said, leaning my head toward her as she bussed me on the cheek. She went to Grant’s side of the table and dropped a kiss on his lips. When she tried to move away, he tugged on her apron and pulled her back. She giggled and slapped his hand.

I watched them fondly for a few seconds before my attention was diverted to the mountain of food she’d placed on the table. Buttery waffles, crisp bacon, sausage, and scrambled eggs. I gave my stomach the heads up for the crime that was about to happen.

“Everything okay out here?” She gave a red-faced Quinn, who was waiting on a table nearby, an anxious look.

“It’s not going to happen, honey,” Grant answered for us both, mostly because I was doing my level best to cram half a waffle in my mouth. “I have a feeling AJ here is stuck on someone else.”

I wasn’t about to stop chewing to respond to such nonsense. Besides, the only rejoinder I had on deck was, “how the fuck can you tell?” Was I emanating I’m stuck on Jesse rays from my body?

“Is that what you two were talking about?” She wanted to know.

“No, I was just telling AJ here that he has the table manners of a water buffalo.”

Now that was worth swallowing quickly for—a good comeback waits for no man. “And I was just telling Grant that even though the sight of his face ruins my appetite, I’m going to persevere.”

She rolled her eyes skyward and muttered, “Why do I even bother?”

“Because you love us,” we singsonged as she marched back to the kitchen.

We talked as we ate, getting caught up on each other’s lives. Weather, work, and sports also made the cut. Eventually, we made our way back around to our mother and her secret relationship.

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