Have you met Alex: friends to lovers romance by Kenna Shaw Reed

Author:Kenna Shaw Reed [Shaw Reed, Kenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Alex

Waking with a beautiful woman to my right, and sounds of birds welcoming in the day while the surf crashed on the beach behind us.

Could my life be any more perfect in this minute?

Well, if my tent came with a coffee machine, that would work.

I gently extracted my limbs from Simone, rolling her onto her side. If we were going to do this again—what with the if I quickly chided—before we did this again, I’d go into town and grab a large throw. My single sleeping bag barely covered us and I’d spent half the night awake making sure I didn’t accidently take it all for myself.

Coffee.

Nectar of the gods.

Screw oil and gold, wars could easily be justified based on little black beans.

I kissed my sleeping princess who didn’t even grace me with a groan, before reclaiming my shorts from the edge of the tent and giving up on finding my second shoe. There had to be an old pair of flip flop style thongs in my ute.

With a momentary look of longing at my surfboard, I half jogged through the caravan park to the main street. Handfuls of people walking towards me with dogs, prams or hand in hand. A typical morning routine with one important common denominator—they all carried coffee cups. I might not be the smartest tool in the shed, but I followed the signs until finding the source of the happy smiles. Out of the three coffee shops, only one had a line out the door.

Wait for what the locals had proclaimed the winning coffee, or take a risk and delay my return?

I stood, filled with indecision. Life shouldn’t be this complicated.

“Hope it was worth the wait,” a young couple said as they brushed past me.

Okay, decision made.

The doorbell rang and the barista seemed surprised to see a customer. Shit.

“Hi, I’ll grab two coffees to go.”

“How do you want them? Cappuccino? Flat white?”

“Shit.” I grimaced, deciding honesty would be my greatest reward. “This is slightly awkward, but I don’t know how she has her coffee.”

“What if she hates the stuff?”

“Then we have no future, but on the off chance she likes coffee, can I work with you to make sure our one-night stand lasts longer than last night?”

“Sure.”

He looked at me as if I was a fool, but within ten minutes, I’d not only helped him adjust the grind so the pour was smooth and lacked the bitterness of his regular cup, but I walked out with my regular long black, plus a second long black for Simone and three cups of steamed milk for her to add as she wished.

“Seriously, is she worth this much trouble?”

“Actually, can I have two of your curry pies and two plain?” I knew she wasn’t a vegetarian, and the smell of freshly baked pies was too good to resist.

“Cup of frothed skim milk, cup of frothed full cream, cup of frothed almond milk, two long blacks and four pies. This is seriously the most wacked order I’ve had.”

“How much do I owe you?” I handed over the credit card, not flinching at the amount.

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