Lucky In Love (Silver Bay Book 3) by Amelia Judd

Author:Amelia Judd [Judd, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mitchell Davis Press LLC
Published: 2018-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“NO flips!” Claire yelled to her kiddos as she sat with Hannah in her sunroom, watching Ty and Grace playing on the backyard trampoline.

It was Saturday afternoon, two weeks since their trip to Chicago, and Ethan was due to pick her up for their official weekend date in an hour. Not that they only saw each other on official dates.

The Monday after their trip to Chicago, Ethan had stopped by her office with flowers and a caffè mocha, her favorite drink from Hannah’s coffee shop. The sweet gesture prompted her to invite him to dinner at her house that night. On Tuesday morning, he’d surprised her with chocolates and another caffè mocha and had invited her and the kids to dinner at his house as a thank you for Monday night’s dinner.

The pattern had continued since then. He’d drop by her office with a treat or to go to lunch with her during the day, and they’d hang out with the kids in the evenings and over the weekend. They ate dinners together, watched movies, hiked, talked, laughed, boated, and played hours of card games, board games and Xbox. Over the past two weeks, her family of three had slipped so easily into being a family of four that Claire couldn’t quite remember how they spent their time before Ethan was around.

But tonight was different. Tonight they’d be going out alone. Hannah, her babysitter for the evening, had arrived early for some sister-chat time before Claire headed out. They’d just finished talking about their brother Pax’s upcoming wedding in Costa Rica when Claire’s phone pinged with an incoming text.

“Say what now?” she mumbled, looking at her phone.

“What’s up?” Hannah asked. “Last time I saw you look that surprised Kat had just labeled your new heels F-me shoes.”

“I don’t believe it.” Claire gawked at her sister. “Ethan texted that he wants to take me for a ride along the beach tonight and that I should wear a tight outfit.” She shook her head. “I must have misunderstood. He’s a guy, but he’s not a jerk. And they weren’t F-me shoes,” she snapped, yanking her phone closer to re-read his text.

“Yep. Clear as day. Skin-tight outfit was the main point of his text.” She rubbed at the tension building in her temples with her fingertips. “Not sure how to respond to that.”

“Kat would give him the middle-finger emoji,” Hannah supplied in a helpful tone.

“And that would work for her. But I’m a little more … ” Claire watched Ty step to the side on the trampoline to clear space for Grace who had a very determined expression on her cute little face. Oh no. Claire knew that look. She stepped forward and raised her voice. “No flips,” she reminded both kids through the open window in her authoritative, don’t-even-try-to-argue-with-me mom voice. She turned back to Hannah. “I’m a little more, you know, mother-y,” she finished. “The middle-finger emoji doesn’t really suit me.”

“Hmmm. How about the thinky-face one?” Hannah suggested.

“That would mean I’m considering it.

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