Greetings From Sugartown by Carmen Jenner

Author:Carmen Jenner [Jenner, Carmen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Goodreads: 20497027
Publisher: Carmen Jenner
Published: 2014-09-09T06:00:00+00:00

THE HOUSE is mostly dark when I enter. There’s a light on in the kitchen, and the glow from the TV illuminates the room enough for me to pick a path through the furniture towards it without falling over my feet.

I throw my keys on the hall table, and round the corner into the lounge room. Ana’s stretched out on the sofa, sound asleep with a blanket covering her, and Kick is dozing in my armchair. There are two glasses on the coffee table, and a half empty bottle of Blue Label sitting beside it.

“What the fuck?” I say and Kick jumps in his chair … my chair … Ana must have well and truly passed out, because she doesn’t move.

“Hey man, what time is it?”

“After one. What the fuck’s going on here?”

“Ah, she was a little pissed you were working late.”

“So you got her drunk?” I accuse.

“Dude, have you met your woman? Is it possible to make her do anything she doesn’t want to do?”

“Listen to me, you fuck-stick. You listen good and proper so I don’t have to castrate you in your sleep. If you so much as look at her the wrong way—”

“Whoa, hang on a God damn second, brother. I’m not idiot enough to try and ruin what you guys have, or bite the hand that feeds me. She was hurtin’, man. When she found out you were working on that chick’s car from the pizza place, she about went nuts. I just wanted to make sure she was okay. I didn’t touch her, I swear.”

I sigh and step closer to the couch, laying my hand on her shoulder. “Baby, wake up.” I shake her. She shifts away from my hands, but that’s about as much interaction as I get. I bend down, and scoop her up in my arms.

“Don’t eat that pie, it’s a bad pie. Slutty,” she mumbles in her sleep, and nuzzles into me.

“I won’t eat the pie, baby girl.”

She wakes and squints up at me. “You’re home.”

“Hi,” I say, and lay a kiss on her nose. “Sorry I had to work late. It won’t happen again.”

“S’okay. Kick and I played drinking games. He lost, and I won a hundred bucks.”

“Good. Then he can replace my Johnnie Walker.”

She gives me a sleepy little laugh and buries her head in my chest. “Take me to bed, Cade.”

“Already headed that way, baby girl,” I whisper, and press a kiss to her forehead. I turn with Ana in my arms and face Kick. “Lock up before bed.”

“Yes, Sir,” he says, and salutes me with the finger.

For a half second I’m reminded of how we used to be, when we were just two dumb kids following the club’s orders like overeager puppies. Before either one of us knew what we were getting into. But that was another life, and I can’t afford to let my guard down with him.

I shake my head and walk towards the bedroom, kicking the door shut behind us. I lay Ana down on our bed, and stretch out on top of her.

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