Lush Curves (Dangerous Curves Book 8) by Marysol James

Author:Marysol James [James, Marysol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: xxxxxxx, xxxx, xxxxxx
Published: 2017-01-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Two weeks later

“So, how was moving-in day?” Sam asked Annie as he scooped vanilla ice cream on top of her warm toffee cake. “Besides totally worrying, I mean. Obviously.”

Annie laughed, accepted the dessert plate. “You know… I think I may have been worrying about things too much. Maybe even overreacting a tad.”

“No!” Sam gave her an exaggerated, wide-eyed stare. “Not you!”

“Yes!” she rejoined, mimicking his faux-stunned look. “Yes, me!”

“Do tell.” He sat down next to her on the sofa, positioned himself to give her his full attention. “They looked happy to be living together?”

“Well… they were a bit freaked out at first about all the mess and confusion. The boxes thrown everywhere and towering piles of stuff really challenged their need for organization and order, you know? Noah especially needs for things to be ‘in their place’, can’t move ‘em so much as an inch because he notices and gets all fidgety about it, so having his belongings all shoved to the side or put on a whole different shelf or whatever was doing his head in.”

“Yeah?” Sam took a bite of cake, watching her closely. “Did he melt down?”

“No. Jax took him aside and talked to him, kept him focused on the big picture. Jax is great at that, you know. Noah gets all bogged down and tied up in knots about details, but Jax always sees the endgame, and he’s really good at pointing it out to Noah calmly and without talking down to him. So this morning, Jax reminded him about the goal, and had Noah map out all the small steps needed to get there. Once Noah had manageable and individual things focus on again, instead of the hugeness of the mess, then he cooled down. Came back into the living room and started cleaning up and sorting. Then he was OK.”

“Yeah, Jax is a good man.”

“He’s an incredible man,” Annie said. “I didn’t always think so, but I was too busy being upset about his bike and his dive-bar business to see that about him.”

“Did you…” Sam’s voice trailed off. “Actually, never mind.”

“No, go ahead.” Annie ate some more cake. “This is amazing, by the way. Did you make it?”

“Are you kidding me? I live in bakeries, honey. Baked goods are my freaking kryptonite, and I’m never going to give up my almost-daily donut. They’re the reason I have to hit the gym four times a week and will never attain supermodel status. So much for my runway career, huh?”

Annie giggled and spooned up some ice cream. “So what were you going to ask me?”

“Just – well. I wondered if maybe Jax reminded you of Billy, if maybe that’s why you didn’t like him?”

“Oh, God, for sure. The first time I met Jax, he rolled on up to my house on a motorcycle, all sexy male confidence and macho swagger. Older than my daughter, far more experienced, hot as hell and didn’t he know it, a clear womanizer. I was totally convinced that

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