Never Fall for Your Back-Up Guy: A laugh-out-loud sweet romantic comedy (It's Complicated Book 1) by Kate O'Keeffe

Author:Kate O'Keeffe [O'Keeffe, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Lime Books
Published: 2021-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

That evening on my way home, Asher calls and I share the story of how Stevie brought down a Kensington Uniform mum.

“Zara, that’s unbelievable!”

“It wasn’t her finest hour, but to be fair to Stevie, the daughter’s a goth. She looks quite scary.”

“Let me get this straight. You got the dog to add to your business and bring new customers in, right?”

“I know what you’re going to say. So far, she’s destroyed stock and sent clients running.”

“You said it, Zee. You know you need to take her to puppy training school, right?”

“I suppose so.”

“No ‘I suppose so.’ More ‘I will, Asher. Whatever you say, Asher.’ That’s what I’m looking for here.”

“But I know how to train a dog.”

“Do you really?” he asks, and I can imagine the look on his face right now. He’d have his eyebrows raised, a subtle smile on his lips, looking at me intently. “Come on, Zee. I’ll go with you to the classes. Will that help?”

“You’d do that for me?”

“Nothing would make me happier than to be in a room filled with untrained, out of control puppies,” he deadpans.

I giggle. “You’d love it.”

“It’s set then. You book it, I’ll be there, and we’ll train that dog of yours to be Kensington’s best behaved canine.”

I reach my block of flats, balance my phone between my ear and shoulder, and slot my key into the lock. “How about we aim a little lower, like say, she won’t pee on the merchandise or frighten the clients?”

He lets out a laugh. “Good goal. So, how was your date with George the idiot?”

“He’s not an idiot. He’s actually a really nice guy.”

“Who also happens to be a complete idiot.”

I open my mouth to reply and then close it again, doing my best fish impression.

I hate it when he’s right.

“You see? You don’t want to say it, but you agree with me.”

I pinch my lips and harrumph, which only serves to make him ask, “What happened?”

I push out a breath as I climb the stairs to my flat. I’d may as well come clean with him since my other friends already know, thanks to our online group chat as I cowered in the Greek restaurant’s toilets. “He invited his parents to our date,” I say and I scrunch my eyes shut as I wait for Asher’s inevitable reaction.

“Wait, what?”

“They sat at the table next to us all evening and I had no idea they were listening to every word we said until he asked me if I wanted to meet them and turned to them to introduce me.”

“You have got to be kidding me.”

“You were right. He was an idiot.” I look down at Stevie and cringe as I think of Victoria crashing to the ground. “A bit like me, really.”

“You mean the shop incident.”

“Yup.”

“You just had a momentary lapse of dog responsibility. George is a terminal idiot. You know what you need?”

“A nun’s habit and veil?” I ask as I unlock the door to my flat and push it open. I’m immediately met with the aroma of chocolate cake.

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