Hero Next Door (A Sweet Small-Town Romance) (Southern Heroes Book 3) by Quinn Marlowe

Author:Quinn Marlowe [Marlowe, Quinn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spitfire Press
Published: 2022-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Dev

I went to her house bright and early the next morning and found the kitchen totally unfunctional still, but also full of the scent of coffee and eggs.

“I may not be able to cook them as well as you, but they’re edible, at least,” Parker said, sliding a plate in front of me.

I took a bite and closed my eyes in pure bliss. She’d only been in charge of the hash browns last night, but I should have put her in charge of the eggs. They were heaven. Full of butter and fluffier than anything I’d ever managed to create.

She’d been lying last night about not being able to cook.

I wondered why. And I immediately decided not to ask. It was none of my business, and it didn’t matter to my life. I was only here to help her finish the house.

“I guess I’ll survive,” I muttered, my mouth full of another bite.

She tipped her head back and forth as she chewed, like it didn’t really matter much to her whether I survived or not, and I went back to my eggs wondering if that meant she’d decided the same thing I had last night.

Namely, that we’d gotten entirely too comfortable with each other yesterday and we had to be a whole lot more careful if we were going to come out of this thing whole.

Probably not. She was a big-city girl, full of business experience and hanging out with country western stars all day. She’d seen the city lights, whatever that meant.

She’d progressed so far beyond this town and the people who lived here that it was a wonder she was even bothering to speak to us.

At least that was what I’d told myself last night, hours after going to bed and failing at falling asleep because my brain was too busy remembering the feeling of her skin under my fingers and her body next to mine as we struggled in the water yesterday. I’d laid there remembering every moment of the day, reliving it like my life somehow depended on it and going through every single emotion I’d felt.

And then I’d balanced that by continuing not to sleep so I could give myself all the reasons it didn’t work. Big city girl, going home soon, never once bothered to talk to me in high school, etc. In short, not a good match.

Not that I was interested, anyhow.

I had far too much going on in my own life to bother trying to fix hers. Or fit her into mine—which she probably wouldn’t want in the first place. And was I really willing to let someone else into my life?

Someone who would end up leaving me like everyone else had?

“Why do you look like you’re planning the next attack in some world war?” a voice suddenly asked.

I yanked myself out of my thoughts and saw Parker staring at me from across the table, tools and a jug of orange juice sitting between us. She was looking at me expectantly, like she knew I’d been thinking and was now expecting me to share everything with her.

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