Her Fake Date for Christmas: A Calico Cove Novella by Hailey Shore

Author:Hailey Shore [Shore, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

9

The Next Day

Bobby

Mari had texted me to meet her upstairs at her apartment instead of at the bakery. She had a slight hiccup for our date tonight. I wondered if she was getting cold feet about going out in public with me and having to lie about the fake engagement.

I wondered if she was getting nervous about the fact that we were basically now real life dating, nothing fake about it.

There was certainly nothing fake about the orgasm I’d given her.

The key to my whole plan was slow and steady. I needed to show Mari what being with me was like. Prove to her how good we could be as a couple and then before she knew it: BAM!

She’d be mine.

I wasn’t certain where this gut instinct came from, but I was trusting it, because it had gotten me to this point so far. Although I had to admit, it wasn’t the best look for the local sheriff to be lying to everyone in town. It could come back and bite me next election. But my plan, if I could be so bold, was to be actually engaged to her at that point.

It’s not a lie if it comes true.

Sure, we had some stuff to work through before we got there. Asshole Jake. This ‘fairy tales don’t come true’ nonsense she had in her head.

Mari and I weren’t a fairy tale. We were the closest thing to reality anyone could get.

I knew because when I texted her earlier to remind her of this date we’d planned, she’d sent me a heart eye emoji, and well… I was a living breathing heart eye emoji.

At the top of Mari’s stairs, I pulled from my back pocket a sprig of mistletoe I’d bought from the flower shop, and knocked on the door.

It opened but it wasn’t Mari standing there. It was Nora, Roy and Vanessa’s daughter, wearing a bright red coat, and a Santa hat.

“Babah!” she cried. Her language skills had been slightly delayed, everyone agreed because Roy only talked in caveman grunts, but once Vanessa showed up and just started talking to the girl, her word count climbed. Now she was a regular chatterbox.

“Nora?” I said. “Is that you?”

“Me!” she cried with her arms up, so I obliged and swung her up high. She laughed like it was the best thing ever.

“You’re good for my ego, kid. Are you the hiccup in the plan tonight?” I asked her. Because if so, it was a pretty delightful hiccup.

“Hey!” Mari came out of her bedroom, pulling on a bright green wool coat. She already wore her cap pulled down over her curls. “I hope this is all right?” she asked. “Vanessa has been so sick lately and when I vol-”

“It’s amazing!” I said, and tucked Nora against my side. “It’s perfect. We will get her hopped up on sugar and return her to her parents.”

“Great minds, Bobby Tanner. Great minds.”

She wore a bright red lipstick that made me think absolutely inappropriate things about what I’d like to do to that mouth.

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