CLASH: Gentry Generations by Brent Cora

Author:Brent, Cora
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Taylor

“You’re not working late tonight, are you?” I asked Kellan as I poured a cup of coffee. I’d grown to love this simple Mr. Coffee machine. It was as basic as could be and did nothing except brew coffee the old fashioned way. I didn’t even miss the high tech platinum model espresso machine with its pulse extraction process and fine foam technology that used to take up room on my kitchen counter. It was one of the first things I’d sold off.

Kellan looked up from his phone and the startling blueness of his eyes knocked me back a step. Sometimes I failed to remember how hot he was until he looked straight at me and then it was like someone hit me with a two by four. He wore a black polo with the Esposito’s logo and his hair was still damp from the shower.

“I’ll be off at six,” he confirmed. “Since it’s Sunday and all.”

“Any other plans?”

“None.” He raised an eyebrow, obviously wondering where this was going.

“Thomas is free tonight too. If it’s all right I’d like to make dinner.”

“Normally I require a formal application with a processing fee before I allow someone to cook a meal in my kitchen.”

“Kel.” I rolled my eyes.

“Of course it’s all right. I guess someone ought to cook in here once in a while.”

“Good. Because I already invited Paige and Derek.”

Derek’s girlfriend, along with her friend Samantha, had shown up at Closet Exchange one day to introduce themselves. Paige was a little shy at first but she was a doll and luckily I could do more than enough talking for everyone. We all ended up going out to lunch together. Paige opened up and was obviously very eager to get to know me. I’d already met Derek after he recovered my car and replaced the battery. My early impression of Derek was that he was a slightly gruffer, more serious version of Kellan. He had the Gentry genes, that was for sure; I could have picked him as Kellan’s brother out of a crowd of a thousand. Paige and Derek had been together for about a year and a half. She was very cute and very sweet and it was easy to make her laugh. I had no trouble imagining her and Derek together.

Paige’s friend Samantha lived here somewhere in The Palms and knew the Gentry brothers fairly well. She was in med school and by a quirk of coincidence, her boyfriend and I had gone to high school together. I vaguely remembered him as a quiet kid who ran with a different crowd and graduated near the top of our class. I got the feeling Sam was a little skeptical about me but then again if all she’d heard were high school stories then I couldn’t blame her. By the end of the lunch we were all laughing together so I took that as a sign that I’d successfully won her over.

Kellan seemed amused by my dinner plans. “So it’s a full scale dinner party? I didn’t even know you liked to cook.

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