Love. Set. Match. by Taylor Lunsford

Author:Taylor Lunsford [Lunsford, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sports, Sports Heroine, tennis, sports romance, Sports Hero, journalist, tabloids
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2019-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

One moment Rob was a second away from watching Emerson Grace explode in his arms, and the next he was being shoved toward the closet.

“Hide? What? Why—?” He stopped, blinking at her. “You do realize you’re an adult, right?”

She glared at him, scrambling around for clothes. Pulling a blue dress off the back of a nearby chair, she wrapped it around her body in frantic, tight movements. “Not to my gran, I’m not. And my father? What should I do? Tell them that we’re occasional fuck buddies?”

Ouch. That stung more than he’d expected. It was the truth, but hearing it put so bluntly hurt when he wanted her to see him as something more than a fuck buddy. Deep down, he wanted her to be excited to introduce him to her grandma. He got why she was freaked out about her dad, but he wanted her to want him there with her to face him instead of wanting to hide him.

The knock sounded again, more insistent.

“We’ll tell them that I was here visiting as an old friend.”

“Please. Sneaking, we can do. Lying? Not so much.” She clasped her head between her hands. “This is so, so bad.”

“I’m going into the bathroom.” He pulled out his don’t-fuck-with-me voice. “Answer the door. I’ll come out in a minute when it’s not so obvious what we were about to do.”

A hysterical laugh bubbled out of her. “I think the missing buttons will give us away.”

“Trust me. Go, answer the door.”

Grabbing his suit coat and vest, he let himself into the spacious bathroom, audibly shutting the door behind him. He waited until he heard Em open the door before he turned on the water, splashing some of it on his face. The muffled murmurs of an older woman’s voice and a man drifted in. Rob took a breath and stared at himself in a mirror. He was really going to do this. Meet a woman’s family. He tried to remember the last time he’d voluntarily done this, but nothing sprang to mind.

He was both nervous and oddly excited. He’d heard a lot about Poppy Grace from both Em and Owen. The formidable matriarch who played the other half of the mythical grandparents the Grace siblings worshipped. He felt a small pang for Em. When he’d pictured meeting her family all those years ago, it was her grandmother and grandfather he imagined charming. The one hesitation Em had had about eloping was the fact that her grandpa wouldn’t be there to walk her down the aisle. He should be here for this now, to help Rob act as a buffer between Em and her father, but he wasn’t.

Bracing himself, Rob did up the loosened buttons of his shirt, thankful that the two that popped off were lower down. He’d hide their absence under his vest and coat. With his damp hands, he smoothed down the hair that Em had clutched as he teased her. She responded to him so beautifully, but at the first

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