My Worst Best Mistake by Kenzie Reed

Author:Kenzie Reed [Reed, Kenzie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-16T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Caroline

I glance at the wall clock in my kitchen and force a smile onto my face.

Sure, my heart was sliced and diced yesterday. But on the bright side, not only is it Sunday, not only did I sleep in until eight a.m., but I no longer have to wake up every day with the fear that if my alarm clock fails me, I’ve ruined my daughter’s future.

I feel like a princess freed from a troll’s curse. Okay, an incredibly sexy troll.

I’m in the kitchen wearing my comfy flannel PJs when my doorbell rings. It’s obviously not someone from the island. They’d just walk right in.

It’s got to be Grant. I glance down at myself self-consciously. Should I make him wait outside while I go throw on something less matronly? Then I shrug. He’s made his position clear. Why should I bother dressing sexy?

I yank aside the curtains of my window, and yes, of course it’s Grant standing on the front steps, backlit by the sun, gorgeous enough to make angels weep. He sees me in the window and holds up a paper bag and a cardboard tray with coffee cups.

I open the door and take the tray and bag from him. His face is still splotched with red dye from yesterday.

“Smooth move, ringing the doorbell this time.”

“Well, last time I broke in, you scarred me for life,” he says, following me into the kitchen.

“Oh, quit being dramatic. It’ll fade eventually. Someday you’ll be able to go out in public without making children weep. Unless they’re responding to your personality.” I set down the coffee on my kitchen table and inhale deeply. “Mmm, cinnamon rolls. I guess I should dial back on the snark.” I sit down, put both rolls on a plate, and open up my coffee.

“Finally, you see the light.” He nods at me. “By the way, I can’t actually go to work looking like this.” He walks over to look at an old vintage Coca-Cola mirror I have hanging on my kitchen wall next to the phone. “From the amount it’s faded, I’m thinking if I scrub my face several times a day, I should look mostly normal within three or four days.”

“What did your family say when they saw your face?”

He walks over and sits across from me, grabbing a cinnamon roll and taking a savage bite. “They expressed their deepest sympathy and pointed out that you’re completely crazy. They said that I was totally in the right, and that I’m definitely the injured party here.”

I take a sip of coffee and smile at him. “No, but seriously, how did they take it?”

He responds with a snort of annoyance. “How do you think they took it? They laughed so hard they almost puked, Reggie had tears running down his face, Magdalena had to go re-apply her makeup because she cry-laughed so hard, and Luana snorted coffee out of her nose and sprayed it all over her blouse and then yelled at me like it was my fault.

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