Curl It Up by Cee Bowerman

Author:Cee Bowerman [Bowerman, Cee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

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JOLIE

I stretched my arms above my head and winced at the tenderness between my legs. Dante and I had explored each other in the shower after our adventures in bed and then christened my bathroom vanity when we should have been sleeping. Now reality was knocking, and I knew I needed to get out of bed and try to function like an adult instead of a lovestruck teenager with her head in the clouds.

Just as I reached out to touch Dante where he had collapsed beside me after we changed the sheets, I heard my niece Colbie’s laughter from the living room.

“Oh shit!” I whispered as I sat straight up and stared at the bedroom door. I scrambled out of bed and yanked on the shirt I’d borrowed from Mike for Dante to wear. I yanked on a pair of yoga pants that were folded in the basket beside my bed as I hopped toward the door.

I opened the door and found Nica and my oldest nieces in the kitchen with Dante while Resa sat in her high chair with yogurt and blueberries all over her face.

“Good morning, pretty girl,” Dante said with a grin from the other side of the bar.

“You’re not supposed to be awake yet!” Quinlee wailed. “We were going to make you breakfast in bed!”

“Breakfast?” I repeated as I walked across the living room, my eyes on the shirtless man standing between my nieces.

Nica was perched on the counter behind them. She scrolled through Dante’s phone before she put it up to her ear and said, “Hi! Are you awake yet?”

“Nica’s calling her uncle so he can give us the recipe for his pancakes,” Colbie explained.

“Her uncle?” I asked, realizing I was starting to sound like a parrot repeating everything. I was confused since I knew Dante’s brothers were in prison.

“I promise we won’t tell anyone your secret recipe,” Nica pleaded with the man on the phone. She bounced up and down with excitement and then pulled the phone away from her face and touched the screen. “He’s going to show us on video chat!”

Dante walked around the counter and pulled me into his arms when I stopped in front of him. “It’s a friend I met when I got out of prison. He lived next door to me for a while, and we’ve kept in touch. He’s one hell of a cook.”

“Ohmygodohmygodohmygod!” Colbie squealed as Quinlee stood next to her with her eyes wide in absolute shock.

“He’s a little bit famous for it.” I raised my eyebrows and watched my nieces giggle as the man on the phone introduced himself. “He hosts a TV show.”

I slowly turned and stared at Dante. “You know Gordon Ramsey?”

Dante laughed. “Okay, he’s not that popular, but he’s pretty well-known.” Quinlee sprinted across the apartment squealing the entire way. My guess was she was going to get Kyla to tell her she’d just met someone famous. “I can’t imagine how they’re going to freak when they meet the woman who’s trying to teach Nica how to do her makeup so she doesn’t look like Mimi from The Drew Carey Show.

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