Cajun Crazy by Sandra Hill

Author:Sandra Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-11-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Give me that old-time . . . seduction . . .

Adam was getting ready for his big date with Simone. And, man, did that make him seem old!

Most single people he knew either hooked up for sex or traveled in groups to parties or bars where they then hooked up for sex. Hardly anyone under the age of thirty dated anymore, or so he was told by TV and the news media, and some of his bachelor friends. Of course, he was thirty-five. Not that his age should make any difference. Or should it?

He didn’t mind giving dating a shot, though. He kind of liked the idea of an old-fashioned courtship. That has got to be a Tante Lulu word. Even Dad isn’t that behind the times. More like Little House on the Prairie–ish. Yeah, that’s me. A big ol’ Michael Landon. Not that this courtship with Simone was leading to anything serious, like marriage, God forbid. Yet. Never. Maybe never.

Oh, hell, he was overanalyzing everything.

He’d even had his hair cut . . . oh, not short short. But the little pony tail was gone. He was making some kind of half-baked declaration of new beginnings.

“Dad-dy!” Maisie had said when he came in from the barbershop. “Ya look jist lak Justin Bieber.”

What? That was not the look he was going for.

His father had said, “Nah. He looks more like Ryan Gosling in La La Land. Ya goin’ ta trip the light fantastic t’night, son?”

Also not the look he’d been going for. If there was any tripping to be done, it would probably be actual tripping, not some frou-frou dancing in the streets. Frou-frou? Oh, my God! Another Tante Lulu word! If anything, he’d prefer to be Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, but, no, his hair was too short for Adam’s taste. Whatever!

The house was a mess of game equipment being put together for the Fourth of July pool party to be held in a few weeks, like pool ping-pong paddles and a net. Thus far, thirty people had indicated they would come. He feared it would be lots more than that.

He was wearing a dark blue suit, pale blue shirt, and a blue striped tie when he picked up Simone at seven-thirty. He was taking her to a restaurant that featured fine dining and dancing. The last time he’d been on a date, it had been with Hannah, at Brennan’s in New Orleans, after which he went home to relieve the babysitter and she’d gone off to one of her other “dates.” Is it still a date if it involves more than one man?

He might have been a little embarrassed over the extra care he’d taken with his appearance, but he soon saw after knocking on Simone’s door that she had done the same. Wearing a red dress with thin straps (She must not be wearing a bra.) that molded her body right down to her upper knees and black strappy high heels, she was dressed for a night on the town.

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