Nanny for the Santas: A Holiday Reverse Harem Romance by Cassie Cole
Author:Cassie Cole [Cole, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Juicy Gems Publishing
Published: 2021-11-27T18:30:00+00:00
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Piper
Ethan and I said a quick goodnight to Max, then walked three blocks east. Downtown Oklahoma City was lit up, with red or green Christmas lights outlining each of the skyscrapers against the deepening night sky. Despite the wind, I was plenty warm with my jacket on, but Ethan put an arm around me as we walked and said that it would keep the cold at bay.
He took me to a small pastry shop in the Arts District, which specialized in what they called a brookie: half-brownie, half-cookie. It was warm and gooey and so delicious that I was tempted to order a second one.
Afterward, we walked arm-in-arm through downtown. âOkay, hereâs a question,â Ethan asked. âWhatâs your most embarrassing moment?â
âLike, ever?â I asked.
âSure.â
âIâve spent my life trying to suppress the memory of embarrassing events.â
âDig deep and find me a good one,â he insisted. âIâll tell you mine, after. And trust me: itâs a good one.â
âFine. Hmm, let me think.â After a few steps, it came to me. âSophomore year of high school.â
âUh oh,â Ethan said. âI have a feeling this is going to be really bad.â
I bit my lip as we walked along. âEnglish class. First period.â
âYou had your first period when you were in high school?â he joked. âThat is embarrassing.â
I gave him a playful glare, which only made him grin harder. âNo. First period, as in, the first class of the day after home room. We were doing an exercise where the teacher wrote a sentence on the board. We had to figure out what was wrong. It could be punctuation, spelling, sentence structure. Anything. When it came time to show our answers, the teacher asked for a volunteer to correct the sentence on the board.â
âAnd you shot your hand up to volunteer,â Ethan said.
I nodded. âI was always picked last in gym class, but in English? I was the best. I loved these exercises. So I went up to the board and wrote my answer quickly and confidently. And I totally blew it.â
Ethan stopped and cocked his head at me. âThatâs it? You wrote the wrong answer on the board?â
âYou donât understand!â I exclaimed. âI confused their and theyâre. It was a really basic mistake, and it was embarrassing. I was known as the nerdy girl who was always reading a book at lunch, so for me to get something so basic wrong⦠I was mortified. And to make matters worse, the teacher teased me about it for the rest of the year. I never raised my hand to volunteer ever again.â
âNo wonder you canât find a job in New York,â Ethan said. âThey probably did a background check on your tenth grade in-class performance.â
The joke totally caught me off guard. If anyone else had said it, I probably would have smacked them. But Ethan had a way of joking around that was totally disarming, even on sensitive subjects like this. I started belly-laughing there on the street, drawing looks from the other pedestrians.
âToo soon?â he asked with a Cheshire grin.
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