Forbidden Fling (Wildwood Book 1) by Skye Jordan

Author:Skye Jordan [Jordan, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503936775
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2016-07-25T21:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

Delaney sat at a corner table in Patterson’s, her elbows on the scarred wood, tired eyes scanning the screen of her laptop as she scrolled through countertop materials on a vendor’s website.

The bar was relatively quiet, with most of the customers watching the Giants game from their stools at the scarred length of wood. Someone with a love of classic rock kept pumping the vintage jukebox full of quarters, and Delaney was about ready to arm wrestle the oldies addict for a little Seether or Lifehouse or Buckcherry.

Instead she calculated finishes, prices, and square footage in her head. As she jotted numbers, watching the total amount rise, her anxiety mounted in tandem.

Under normal conditions, she’d already have everything picked, calculated, scheduled, and ready to order once the final go-ahead had been given. Only this go-ahead was all on her. All the cash supporting the go-ahead was on her, too. And she could easily see that keeping the costs contained to her every red cent was going to be more than just a little challenging. It was going to be impossible.

And wouldn’t that just give Jack Hayes all the arrogant satisfaction he craved?

God that ate at her.

She sighed, groaned, and rubbed her eyes. Sleep had been in short supply as she’d taken the necessary steps toward obtaining a building permit over the last week. Even though she wouldn’t make a final decision until all the facts and figures were in, Delaney knew exactly how much work went into the drawings and documents required in this process. And if there was one thing she’d become over the last decade, it was prepared. Prepared to pick up where her mother left off raising her sisters. Prepared to run the bar when her father was passed out drunk. Prepared to survive when she’d left Wildwood. Prepared to take opportunities as they arose in the years since.

And the moment Phoebe had twisted Delaney’s mind around to see the bar as an opportunity—whether she wanted to admit it or not—that innate survivor inside her wouldn’t allow her to simply throw it away out of spite. Especially not when her sisters still needed so much help. Or when her guilt over walking away while they’d been too young to do the same still gnawed at her conscience.

But shit . . . just thinking about the magnitude of the job and the emotional stress it was taking on her, on Ethan, on Ellen, on their whole family, kicked up her body heat, and she pulled at the buttons on her sundress, flapping the material at her chest for air as she lowered her gaze to her work again.

Delaney’s mind tugged back to her run-in with Ethan’s father on the street earlier in the day. The entire ten minutes fast-forwarded through her memory in seconds, and her gut knotted.

She’d anticipated lingering resentment and hard feelings among the Ryan and Hayes families, but Jack’s belligerence had been over the top. He wasn’t even Ian’s father. Jack and Wayne weren’t even brothers.

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