Infatuate by K.C. Ale

Author:K.C. Ale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: infatuation, romantic comedy, workplace romance, shy guy, shy heroine
Publisher: K.C. Ale

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Flipping the visor down, Ma smears red lipstick from a tube, turning this way and that while she studies herself. At fifty-three, Ma is gorgeous. She stopped coloring her hair after her stylist told her silver was the latest rage. Women more than half her age were paying top dollars to achieve her natural hair color. Now she sports it proudly in a stylish bob. She’s put extra curls in it for tonight. In a pretty deep blue cocktail dress, Ma is positively glowing.

“I think they should have a destination wedding,” Ma suggests of Hawkes and Gemma’s nuptials while recapping the makeup. “Perhaps France. Or Italy.”

I grunt.

“Maybe they can do France. Italy will be yours. In a cute little villa.”

“Ma, they haven’t even picked a date yet.”

“Pff.” She waves that off. “I’ve seen the way Bradley looks at Gemma. Trust me, it’s not going to be a long engagement. It’s you I’m worried about.”

My restless fingers fidget with the snake choke around my neck. Ma likes me to dress up when I take her out, and considering all that she’s put up with during my younger days, it’s the least I can do… but a tie! Who the hell came up with this outrageous notion? Put a noose around a man’s collar and call it fashion. If heels were invented by a man so the woman wouldn’t run off as Suzy proclaimed, then ties were created by a woman to easily keep the man in her grasp. I suppose ties sound better than shackles.

A fleeting image of Suzette shackling me with the tie while she straddles me gets my dick happily jolting. I slide a self-conscious glance at Ma, but she’s preoccupied with blotting her lips with a tissue.

Since the day Hawkes brought Gemma to meet Ma, she’s been harping on me incessantly about my love life. Or lack of one. And grandbabies. A minivan. With a grand-dog thrown in. I’ve never brought a woman home, never even mentioned a woman’s name to her other than casually. When I was seventeen and fresh out of juvie, she caught me sneaking a half-dressed girl out of my room, so she knows I’m not gay, yet she’s been patient, blasé even, about not pushing me on the matter.

Until Hawkes and Gemma.

It wasn’t a competition, she assured me, but she wasn’t getting any younger… and neither was I, she candidly pointed out. She wanted grandbabies, from Hawkes and from me.

“Doesn’t Gemma have any friends she can introduce you?” She’s asked me – and Gemma – that question a hundred times. Suddenly excited, she lurches up in her seat. “Maybe there’ll be someone at the party tonight. You look so handsome, I’m sure you’ll meet someone nice.”

Fuck.

If she gets wind of Suzette and whatever the hell is going on between us, she’ll be all over that shit like only a well-meaning, grandbaby-desperate mother can.

“It’s not really a party,” I remind her. “Just a small group of friends. Let’s just have fun tonight, okay?”

It’s hard enough trying to talk Suzette into brewing us up again now that I officially work at HC.

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