James, Sandy - All the Right Reasons [Damaged Heroes 3] (BookStrand Publishing Romance) Free E-Book by Sandy James

Author:Sandy James [James, Sandy]
Format: epub
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-27T09:00:00+00:00

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Joy could tell something was wrong the instant she saw Lucas walk inside the dining room. His stoic mask was firmly back in place, and she wanted to cry when she saw he wore a long-sleeved shirt, hiding his scars. What happened, Szivem?

Before Joy had a chance to go to him, Seth and Katie Remington walked in with their son, and the noise rose to an almost unbearable din. Realizing she needed to attend to the customers, she went back to work, plotting how quickly she could gain enough time to talk to Lucas. Dropping the big pan of noodles into the steam table, she checked the temperature and then went to retrieve another item for the buffet.

Lucas had to fight the urge to run after Joy when he saw her duck into the kitchen. Everything inside him screamed at him to go to her, to take her hand and drag her upstairs to that tiny apartment and tell her everything. Maybe she would forgive him for the stupid mistakes he’d made in life. But how could anyone, even Jozsa, forgive him for what he’d done to Brad?

Dragging a chair to the table where Sam had pulled up a high chair for Chelsea, Lucas tried to lose his plaguing thoughts by playing with his niece. Then he realized he should have chosen somewhere else to sit because Sam started in on him immediately.

“Are you ever gonna tell me what’s wrong?”

“Butt out, Sam,” he replied, hoping the tone in his voice told his sister-in-law he meant business.

She rolled her eyes. “Yeah, that’s gonna happen. Why don’t you go find Joy? Maybe she can talk to you when you’re in this mood.” Sam’s overbearing tone almost made Lucas yell at her in response. But he realized she was just trying to help, so he let her bossiness pass. “Maybe you’ll open up to her since you won’t talk to me or Brian.”

“I’m gonna go see Seth,” Lucas said, groping for some way to get away from Samantha’s scrutiny. There was only one person he knew he could talk to, and Joy was far too busy for the type of discussion he wanted to have with her. Lucas got up and made his way through the throng of well-wishers to finally reach Seth and Katie.

“Hey, Lucas,” Seth said, slapping Lucas on the shoulder. “Glad you could make it. Where’s your little gypsy?”

Lucas just shrugged. “Happy anniversary,” he said before turning to Katie. “I don’t know why you’ve put up with Seth’s worthless ass for a whole year, but... Congratulations.”

Katie laughed as she shifted Reed to her other hip. Lucas smiled down at the little boy and tousled his curly red hair. The poor kid probably got sick of people doing that, but that hair... Reed smiled back at Lucas, revealing four tiny white teeth.

“Yeah, well, where else can I get a driver who actually listens to me?” she finally replied.

“How about Brian?” Lucas countered.

Seth snorted. “I’m way better than Brian.”

“The hell you are!” Lucas heard his brother shout as he approached them.

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