His Cinderella Next Door by Cara Colter

Author:Cara Colter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-04-11T21:00:20+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“REJECTED AGAIN,” OSCAR said casually, as if there was no sting at all to Molly’s words that she traveled alone and traveled light.

“Don’t say that.”

He lifted a shoulder.

“You may buy me one outfit,” she said, a little desperately, as if that could heal what she had hurt in him. That was one of the problems between them. It didn’t matter what words you said. There was a deeper meaning.

“One,” Molly said, holding up one finger, as if he might miss the point if she didn’t. “But I’m buying the shoes. Which dress?”

It was obvious to him which dress. The yellow with the roses had been spectacular on her. “You choose,” he said. “Surprise me.”

She tilted her head at him and nodded. “Okay.”

He tried to smile, but somehow he didn’t feel like it. Somehow, it felt like whatever dress she chose was going to have a secret message.

Complicated.

Because then he remembered she wasn’t buying the dress to surprise him. In fact, as he stood at the cash register paying for a dress that she wouldn’t show him, it occurred to him he had just bought her a dress to go to a party with James!

As the transaction completed, her phone rang. She fished it out of her pocket and glanced at it.

“Oh,” she said, “I’ve got to take this.”

Speak of the devil, he thought, as he watched her walk away, needing privacy, apparently, a little smile on her face that made Oscar achingly aware how little he now knew about her new world.

Whoever that was, she’d been pleased.

“And just for your information,” she said, when she came back, “I didn’t really lose the bet because the sizes of stuff you brought for me to try on were all over the map.”

Was she beaming like that because she hadn’t really lost the bet? He wanted to ask her who had been on the phone, but it seemed way too “teenage boy.”

“But the right size was in there.” Oscar made himself follow her conversational lead.

She tilted her head at him and tapped her lips thoughtfully with her finger. He really wished she wouldn’t do that.

“I guess we could call it a partial win for you,” she decided.

“What’s that mean?” he asked, his grumpiness not all pretend. “Partial lunch?”

“Lunch, but nothing fancy. Do you have a favorite food truck?”

Somehow, he had the feeling she would think he was a complete dud if he admitted he had never eaten at a food truck.

“Not really,” he said.

“After lunch, let’s do something.”

It seemed to Oscar they had been doing something, almost nonstop since her arrival. He suspected she wanted to put awkward conversations behind them. Who could blame her?

“I’m picking this afternoon’s activity,” Molly announced.

“And what can I look forward to?”

“A zip line, I hope.”

That should, indeed, be a conversation killer. “Molly, have mercy, you know I’m afraid of heights.”

She chortled happily. “We’ll call it pirate school.”

With her parcels wrapped up like she were carrying state secrets, they walked to a place where several food trucks congregated each day.

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