Harlequin Medical Romance October 2015, Box Set 1 of 2 by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459290822
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THAT EVENING, TREVOR insisted he and Julie have dinner together before he took her home, and they stopped at the Sweet Pea Diner on Main Street in Cattleman Bluff. Having lived in California for so long, seeing the main street in town often reminded Julie of a movie set. But she loved how her hometown worked to keep history alive instead of bulldozing everything down and starting over. She remembered coming to Sweat Pea Diner with her parents for fried chicken sometimes on Saturday nights when she was a child, and that made her smile as they walked inside.

“Wow, it smells great,” she said as a rush of buttermilk biscuits and frying chicken hit her head-on. “Must have been hungrier than I thought. My mouth is watering.”

“You hardly ate lunch, I noticed,” Trevor said as they followed a waitress who seated them in a black vinyl booth with a speckled beige Formica table top. It was by the window, which was covered in lacy valances and half curtains. The lady in the pink apron with Sweet Pea Diner in bold black print across her chest handed them menus and left.

“I was too nervous to eat. I kept wondering what James would think about your being there.”

“If anyone should have been nervous, it was me.”

“Were you?”

“Very, but it didn’t turn out so bad, did it?”

“No. The day was pretty darn good.” She smiled and studied Trevor’s face; his brows nearly met as he looked over the menu. The choices didn’t seem that perplexing, and she wondered what he might really be thinking so hard about.

Once they ordered, they got their sodas right away along with a basket of those delicious-smelling biscuits. Julie dug right in and buttered one, spread some of the homemade Sweet Pea honey on top, and took a big bite, the crazy sweetness melting in her mouth. Wow, she’d forgotten how great the local orange-clover honey was while out in California.

“So I guess you’ll have to ride out with me next weekend to sign out James for the day,” Trevor said.

“I sure will. I’m going to be jealous to share him with you, but I want him to get to know you.”

“Why don’t you plan on having supper with us at the Circle M, then we can drive him back to school together?”

It sounded like a lot of togetherness to her, but since she wanted what was best for James, and she was pretty sure that meant bringing his father into his life, she’d go along with Trevor’s plans. For now.

She took another bite of biscuit, this one not quite as sweet as the first, then looked at Trevor. He’d broken her heart so thoroughly when she’d been seventeen that she didn’t think it was possible to ever pick up the pieces again. If it hadn’t been for the pregnancy back then, she’d sworn she couldn’t have gone on living. Ah, the overdramatic days of being a teenager. Thank goodness they were over! She’d never put herself in a position again to let a man make or break her life.

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