Game Changer by Stewart Sylvie

Author:Stewart, Sylvie [Stewart, Sylvie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781947853133
Publisher: Rolling Hearts Press
Published: 2019-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

“Patience is a virtue. Unless you’re dealing with a truly stupid man.”

– Cookie Rutledge

I consider inviting somebody I know to act as a buffer at dinner until I realize I hardly know anybody. Kate and Naveed aren’t options because Bobby Lee will surely use the opportunity to do reconnaissance on Mac and neither one of them know about our thing. So I’m left to fend for myself. One of these days, I need to fix my life.

I take Bobby Lee for Thai since it’s easy to find a place, and his mood picks up. Maybe he was just hungry. A girl can hope, right? We chat about the business and his parents and he tells me about Cookie’s latest run-in with the tourist board over Violette Inn’s listing in the new brochure. Before I know it, I’m laughing and having a great time, just like the old days. I remind him of the time he and my cousin got their hands on a batch of moonshine and Iris and I had to drag their drunk asses into the garage at the back of his parents’ property so they didn’t get a whoopin’ come morning. He has the decency to look sheepish at that one and assures me he hasn’t been able to even look at moonshine since.

The one thing we don’t talk about is his reason for being here, and I thank my lucky stars he’s letting it rest.

By the time we pay our bill—dutch, much to Bobby Lee’s consternation—I’ve almost forgotten why I’m mad at him. Until he reminds me.

“I don’t suppose you’d let me sleep on your sofa, would you?”

I turn to look at him as we walk side-by-side down the sidewalk.

He throws a hand up. “I have a hotel reservation, don’t worry. I just think I’ll feel better knowing you’re safe in the next room.”

If I thought for one minute this actually had anything to do with my personal safety—a notion that’s preposterous in itself—I might not respond how I do.

“I’ve been here a month and I’m doing just fine on my own, thank you very much.”

“Don’t get so bent out of shape. I’m just looking out for you.”

Looking out for me, my ass. He’s just trying to make sure I’m not sleeping with Mac!

I stop in my tracks and he has to back up a few steps. “You never felt the need to stay at my place when I was living in Savannah,” I throw back at him.

His hands come to his hips. “Back in Savannah, you didn’t need protecting.”

According to him, I apparently didn’t need orgasms either—not that this is the time to bring up his antiquated wait-until-marriage sex policy. But with the way he’s acting, maybe it’ll do us some good if I clear the air by declaring to all the citizens of New York that I’m no virgin and my maidenhood doesn’t require protecting. But perhaps that’s a bit off topic.

“And I still don’t. Nobody is breaking into my apartment, Bobby Lee. You watch too much TV.

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