Lord of a Thousand Steps (Love in Laguna Book 4) by Tara Lain

Author:Tara Lain [Lain, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 9781634776660
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-08-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

THE GOOD feelings lasted about half an hour. Then all the other crap intruded. He’d cheated on Rico. True, Rico cheated on him first, but if Rico decided to come back—shit, Rico’s engaged to somebody else. He’s not coming back.

Okay, but one absolutely incontrovertible fact remained. He’d just sucked off his boss. No, his boss’s boss’s etcetera. And how does that make you feel, Mr. Carney?

Let’s table that.

He loaded two more sandy, sleepy kids into the van as their parents piled all the junk that seemed to accompany kids into the back.

The young mom, one of the admins from the design department, smiled at him. “Thanks, Ian. You sure are good with kids. Bet you want a pile of them.”

He just smiled and nodded. Did he want kids? Hell, yeah. He’d love treating them way better than his father had treated him.

After the last of the families were loaded, he finally wandered into the house. Funny, he’d missed all of the adult party except when the parents came down to the beach to visit their offspring. He hadn’t exactly planned it that way, but hell, he often felt more comfortable with kids. That probably speaks to my general level of maturity.

Inside the house, pandemonium reigned. Caterers rushed around collecting chairs and clearing tables—mess disappearing and the casual comfort of Braden’s home being restored. Such a nice place. One of the women from the committee waved at him as she directed some of the men to pull up chairs from the lower decks.

He grabbed the bag he’d left in the hall closet and stepped into the guest powder room. Laying a towel on the floor to catch the excess sand, he changed to his jeans and T-shirt. When he looked in the sink mirror to try to comb his hair, a rosy face stared back. He’d gotten some sun today, even more than he was used to. He gathered the towel to take to the laundry, then walked out to the living room.

No Braden. Was he still lying on the beach recovering? Hell, the tunnel could be treacherous at night. For a second his pulse pounded. Then he heard Braden’s voice coming from the deck.

Whew. That raised another question. Should he slip out and not face the music, or stand his ground?

Gotta see him sometime, unless you want to quit your job and move to Kansas.

A definite possibility.

Braden walked into the living room. Too late to run. The moment he saw Ian, a pink blush splashed across his high cheekbones. “Hi.”

Well, that was fucking cute. “Hi.”

“Thanks so much for wrangling all the kids today. Everyone said you were amazing. You didn’t have to do it, but I really appreciate it.”

“My pleasure.” One of a couple of pleasures he’d had today.

Braden glanced toward the kitchen. “Do you have to go? They’re almost done cleaning up. I was thinking we could have a glass of wine.” He smiled. “Since you kind of missed out on the party.”

Ian’s heart lurched. He looked around at the women from the office who still supervised the caterers.

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