Harlequin Blaze May 2017 Box Set by Kira Sinclair Taryn Leigh Taylor Jennifer Snow & Katherine Garbera

Author:Kira Sinclair, Taryn Leigh Taylor, Jennifer Snow & Katherine Garbera
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488014741
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Published: 2017-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

“YOU HAVE MY TICKETS?”

Lainey stared at the man across from her. Allan Bashir was like a genie in a business suit, set to grant her wish with the stroke of his pen on the contract that sat on the desk between them. She held up the tickets in her hand.

The ones Cooper had given her, the ones that had represented so much more to him than a couple of seats in a packed arena. But she’d been too stupid to see it. Too scared to understand the meaning behind the gesture.

“Then I guess we have a deal, Ms. Harper.” He signed his name with fluid precision before he spun the contract on the desk and pushed it toward Lainey, holding the expensive pen in her direction.

What the hell was she doing?

She’d told Cooper she loved him, but as soon as things got uncomfortable, she’d started running away. Like he’d said, there was no room for him in the life she led, traveling around from hotel room to hotel room. But if she stayed…

The thought didn’t scare her anymore. Because somehow, over the last few months, it wasn’t her dad’s bar anymore. The Drunken Sportsman had become hers.

It had snuck into her being, and now it was hard to imagine her life without Aggie’s frank observations, or Darius’s snarky teasing or Brett’s sibling loyalty, or Cooper’s…everything.

She didn’t want to imagine her life without Cooper.

Jeannie elbowed her, but instead of taking the pen, Lainey jumped to her feet. “My bar’s not for sale.”

Twin looks of disbelief greeted her sudden announcement.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Bashir. Your offer is more than fair. But my situation has changed.”

“I’m afraid I don’t understand.”

Lainey shook her head, trying to figure out exactly what she meant. “I don’t understand, either. When Mar—when my father left me the Sportsman, all I wanted was to sell it and get back to my life.

“I never thought I’d come to care about the people who work there. Or that I’d reconcile with my little brother or meet the guy who makes me want to face my past and overcome my fears.”

Lainey shrugged. “But it happened. And now the bar kind of feels like…home.” Admitting it aloud brought a warmth to her chest, a sense of belonging that had been missing for a long time.

“Family matters are often complicated.”

Bashir’s words blindsided her, stung the back of her eyes.

Family.

It was something she’d thought she’d lost when her dad walked out, when the car crash stole her mom too soon. But now she’d been given a second chance, and she’d be damned if she was going to give it up without a fight. She had to act fast.

“I have to go. I’m so sorry I wasted your time.”

She hurried through the lobby of Mr. Bashir’s gleaming office building, not slowing down until she found herself outside in the warm Portland evening.

There was a cab waiting on the corner, so she abandoned her Uber plan and crawled into the waiting vehicle.

“Can you take me

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