Everything You Need by Melissa Blue

Author:Melissa Blue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, beach, interracial romance, vacation, contemporary romance, melissa blue
Publisher: Melissa Blue

Chapter 7

Getting dressed this time was a little harder. The funeral dress, the red slutty one and the green one she’d worn the other night. Hazel listened for a knock at the door, but none came. She picked up the black dress, and slid it over her head. It would have to do, because she sure as hell wasn’t going to wear the red one to meet his family. How’d she got roped into going to Maria’s birthday party, anyway? Oh, right, The Don had made an offer she couldn’t refuse.

Hazel smoothed the material, though butterflies in her stomach continued to bounce around. Before she could sit down, someone knocked at the door, and she found Brice holding up a bouquet of roses.

“Where did you find these on the island?” she asked.

“My brother kindly brought them from the mainland for me.”

Back to him, she heard the strain in his voice, the tension making it taut like guitar strings. She started to open cabinets, not ready to face him. What they’d shared earlier wasn’t light, and she didn’t mean the kiss in the ocean. It was almost as though he’d known she needed to laugh. Like he’d known she needed the demons in her past to rest again.

She opened the cupboard under the sink and found a vase. Hazel couldn’t be sure, but she didn’t think it had been there the last time she looked. Her mouth held a frown when she faced him.

“So, what’s the game plan? I’m sure we don’t want them to think this is love and marriage, but at the same time I don’t want to be rude. How do you handle these situations?”

She was surprised he could date at all, from the way his family jumped on a possible wife. She would have run if her knees hadn’t been weak.

Brice shifted his feet. “I don’t.” He sucked in a breath. “The last time I brought someone home was a very, very long time ago. I’m sorry you got caught up in my family stuff. It’s the main reason why I avoid them when I can. They don’t understand the word ‘No.’ Nor do they know what the hell boundaries are.”

It was going to be much like the night before. From what she had gleaned he didn’t have a stable job, but he had enough saved up to renovate the beach house. She didn’t see how he was the loser they were trying to make him out to be. She also didn’t understand why he didn’t appreciate the family he had. She sucked in a breath at the road her brain was taking. “Well, I’m ready if you are.”

He tilted his head at her. “I know my family may be a little overbearing, but seriously, you don’t have to dress as if you are going to a funeral.”

“I have nothing else presentable to wear.”

“You’re not meeting the queen of Italy. You can wear jeans. Or Band-Aids. Anything but the funeral dress.”

“It’s that bad?” Hazel pulled at the slinky material.

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