Letting Go: A Contemporary Romance of Snark and Feels by Abbie Zanders

Author:Abbie Zanders [Zanders, Abbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abbie Zanders
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Ethan

Hannah was just hanging up the phone when I walked into the kitchen. She was in those baggy jeans again, wearing an old, faded T sporting the name of a rock band and tour dates from a few years back.

“You like DarkWing?” Somehow I just couldn’t see it.

She shrugged, neither in confirmation nor denial. Her hair was damp, curlier and wilder than usual. I liked it. A lot. She caught me staring and the next thing I knew, she was pulling a hair tie from her wrist and taming it at the base of her neck. My fingers itched to rip it right back out and tangle themselves in that mass of chestnut silk, but I clenched them at my sides and refrained.

“Did you need something?” she asked.

“PT’s done for this morning. Your father’s answering his email. I have some time to check out whatever issues you were having with your shower earlier.” It was the Colonel’s idea. He said a woman tended to look more favorably on a man who proved himself useful at fixing things. Sounded reasonable enough to me, so I deferred to his experience.

“Thanks, but I just called Schaeffer’s. They’re sending someone out this afternoon.”

Well damn, I hadn’t considered that. The woman was just too efficient for her own good. Plan Alpha had hit a snag so I improvised a plan Bravo. “Call them back and tell them to hold off. If I can fix it, it’ll save you the cost of a service call.”

Her expression was unreadable, her eyes shuttered. “You’re already doing so much, Ethan.”

I shrugged. “I don’t mind. It keeps me out of trouble.”

Her lips twitched as if the very thought amused her. I flashed a dimple and waggled my eyebrows suggestively. She laughed. It was a beautiful sound. Honest to God, it made my chest feel like it was suddenly filled with sunshine.

“Something tells me, Ethan O’Malley, that trouble will always find you.”

I grinned. She wasn’t wrong.

“But I wanted to see Jake anyway. I’ve been putting it off, but I should talk with him about bringing his financial setup into the new millennium.”

“Jake?” My innate male senses tingled at the name. At the way she said it with such... familiarity. Who the fuck was this Jake and why was this the first I was hearing about him?

“Jake Schaeffer. He runs the plumbing and heating place in town.”

I relaxed somewhat, picturing an older guy with a bushy mustache wearing a cap and coveralls showing up with a toolbox in hand. What can I say? I’m a product of the Nintendo generation.

“Oh, okay,” I said. “But next time, let me take a look first, okay?”

“Okay.”

I left her alone then, but made sure I stuck close by. There was something different about her. She was more relaxed. More agreeable. The only things I knew of that could change a woman’s attitude that quickly were a trip to the spa or a really good orgasm. And I knew Hannah hadn’t left the house all morning.

Ohhhhh. I had to get up into her bedroom and do a little recon.

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