Embracing Her Ever After: A Sweet Romantic Comedy (ABCs of Love Book 5) by Brenna Jacobs

Author:Brenna Jacobs [Jacobs, Brenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Four Petal Press
Published: 2019-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“I want to offer to help tonight, but I don’t want you to kill me,” Ethan said to Tessa as they packed up Calvin and all his stuff for home.

She didn’t say anything as she wrangled the swing closed.

“So how about if I take a shift? Call me when you’re ready to go to bed.” Her eyes flew to his, scandalized, and he winced. “That came out very, very wrong. I meant I could come over then and crash on your couch until his middle of the night feeding or crying, and you can finally get a true full night of sleep.”

She shook her head before he even finished. “Thanks, but no thanks.”

He dropped the offer in favor of helping her pack up and they made the trip to her car with baby and gear. He loaded the trunk and shut it as she straightened from buckling Calvin in. “What if I promise not to bring up the kiss? Would you let me help then?”

“Ethan,” she said. That was it. She followed it with a tired-sounding sigh and an attempt to shove her fingers through her hair, one of her thinking habits he remembered well, but her braid stymied her and she let her hand drift down to her side.

“I’m not trying to get anything from you,” he said. “You’re doing a hard thing. You’re my friend. I want to help.”

“Until I recruited you for this job, we hadn’t spoken in six years. Were we friends and I missed it?”

A distinct edge of anger ran through the words, and it surprised him. “Was I supposed to reach out?” he asked, genuinely confused. “You made it pretty clear during senior seminar that you wanted nothing to do with me outside of the project.”

A few different expressions flickered across her face, and he wasn’t sure what to make of them other than it looked as if she was having an argument with herself.

“You’re right,” she said. “I wanted to keep things strictly about work then, and I want to do that now. I need you to back up, give me some space, and quit reading so much into things. I need your whole brain for work, but I don’t need anything for this.” She nodded toward Calvin.

“Reading so much into things,” he repeated. She at least had the decency to look away. “Must have been someone else who climbed into my lap and wrapped herself around me this morning.”

Her mouth tightened and she shut Calvin’s door softly, but every line of her body screamed how much she wanted to slam it. She went around to her side and started the car as regret washed over him. That hadn’t been fair of him to say. Or maybe it had. But it had been the wrong moment, and the last thing Tessa needed was to deal with anything between them on top of trying to take care of Calvin.

He hurried to her window and knocked. She ignored him and put the car into gear.

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