Falling for her Brother's Best Friend (Tea for Two Book 1) by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-06T18:30:00+00:00

Seven

A week later, on Saturday morning, Emma was back in Tea for Two. Her friends spent most of their time here now, so she’d been hanging out here a lot in the last week too.

Ryan was present as well this morning, so they were sitting at the same table. Patrick was working in his office for a few hours, even though it was Saturday, and Noah hadn’t made an appearance.

She’d seen Noah a couple of times in the last week, and she’d assured herself she’d acted cool and unconcerned.

What happened had happened. It had really hurt. But she wasn’t going to be foolish and dwell on it, and she definitely wasn’t going to let anyone see how wounded she actually felt.

“You want one?” Ryan asked, gesturing toward his plate of beignets. He had sugar on his mouth, which he wiped off with a napkin.

Emma hesitated at the sight of the warm, brown pastries dusted with sugar.

Ryan picked one up and waved it at her. “They’re really good.”

“I know they’re good,” Emma said. “Everything Carol bakes is good. I’ve just already had a lot of sweets this week.”

She’d felt like she’d needed them for emotional purposes, but she didn’t want to go crazy. She wasn’t like Ginny—who could eat anything she wanted and still stay slim. Emma actually had to be careful.

But the beignet looked and smelled so good, and Ryan’s taunting her with it was so funny that she finally nodded and reached out for it.

When she took her first bite, she sighed in pleasure.

Ryan was licking the sugar off his fingers. He must have seen her watching him because he quirked his mouth up and said, “You’re thinking about where my hand has been recently, aren’t you? I promise I wash my hands all the time.”

She laughed. Ryan was a large animal vet. He worked for the Animal Science department at Virginia Tech, and she preferred not to think about what he did with his hands all day. “I really wasn’t. I was just thinking about how messy the sugar is.”

“It’s worth it.” His eyes roamed around the small shop with what looked like satisfaction. “Pretty good crowd here this morning.”

“It really is. It might still level off some more after a couple of weeks. New places always get more traffic. But it can level off a lot, and they’ll still be in decent shape financially.” Every time she came in, Emma automatically took account of the number of customers and what they were eating and did some quick math in her head. Every time, she was happy about the result of her calculations.

“I’m so relieved,” Ryan admitted. “I’ve been kind of worried about it. It’s such a risk to open a place like this.”

“I know. But they’ve done all their homework and are making smart decisions. Carol and Ginny are both pretty smart.”

“I know they are.”

Emma had finished her beignet, and she was trying not to eye the two remaining on Ryan’s plate too lustfully. She sighed and glanced at the front door when the bell jangled.

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