Hard Hart by Whitley Cox

Author:Whitley Cox [WHITLEY COX]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whitley Cox
Published: 2023-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

“So are you guys getting married then?” Chase asked gruffly as they all sat around the dining room table a little while later, playing Risk and eating pizza. As was tradition, each brother had their own large pizza sitting in front of them. Obviously, Krista was free to have her own as well, but she chose to split one with Brock’s mother. Seemed both women liked the idea of chicken, mushroom and spinach. Brock had shaken his head at their order. He went with meat and plenty of it. Always.

“I’ve asked,” Brock grumbled, tipping back his drink and draining it. “She said no.”

Krista rolled her eyes at him, and he snorted. “It’s complicated.”

Chase picked up the dice from the board and started shaking them in his meaty palm. “I don’t see the complication. You’re having a baby together. You have sex. Makes sense to be married.”

Brock’s mother joined Krista in another eye roll. “It’s the twenty-first century, you big buffoon.” She snorted. “Family styles are always changing. Would I like for my grandchild’s parents to be married and in love? Of course. But let’s let Brock and Krista figure out how they want to raise their family, okay?”

God, Brock loved his mother. A family therapist, she’d had nothing but patience for her sons as they grew up. When Brock’s dad had died, Brock had been only twelve, and his mother was in the middle of getting her master’s degree. She had planned on quitting to get a full-time job and just raise the boys, but Brock wouldn’t allow it. Instead he took odd jobs on the weekends and after school to help make ends meet, and his mother alternated between part-time school and a night-shift job on a cleaning crew. It had taken her a little longer to complete school, but she’d never just quit. And eventually, she’d gone on to get her PhD as well and was now Dr. Joy Hart. There wasn’t a woman in the world he was prouder of or admired more. And the way she had embraced Krista and her and Brock’s unorthodox relationship just proved his mother was one hell of a woman.

“You asked her to marry you?” Heath asked, shaking his head in disbelief.

Brock lifted his shoulder. “It’s the right thing to do.”

His mother scoffed. “The right thing to do is be in that child’s life. Whatever becomes of the two of you,” she pointed her finger between Brock and Krista, “would just be a bonus.”

Truth be told, though, he was beginning to have feelings for Krista. He was just total shit at showing it. Then she’d ask questions, and the fear would settle in and he’d clam right up. He’d never lived with a woman, never let a woman get this close, and for some reason, it scared the living shit out of him. But Krista, despite how much they butted heads and both seemed to be control freaks, made him want to open up. He just didn’t know how.

“Are you going to find out what it is?” Rex asked, diving into another slice of pizza.

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