Playing for Keeps by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

#GoingToBeABumpyRide

A minute later, Sadie watched Caleb and Lollipop walk out of the shop heading for the pub.

He wanted to date her.

Before she could obsess over that too much, her client called and canceled on her. She didn’t know if she was bummed or relieved and grabbed her purse.

“Running away from home?” Rocco asked mildly.

“I should,” she said pointedly, but he just smiled, unrepentant.

“He’d be good for you,” he said.

Rolling her eyes, she left work and stopped at a table set up in the courtyard where a Girl Scout troop was selling cookies. In her opinion, there were five seasons: winter, Girl Scout Cookie season, spring, summer, and fall. So she searched her purse and managed to come up with ten bucks to buy two emergency boxes. Some might call eating two boxes of cookies on her own a cry for help. Sadie called it supporting young female entrepreneurs.

She opened a box and helped herself as she thought about Caleb. She’d spent a lot of time avoiding dating. That she was possibly considering jumping back in felt a little too much like her old world to her. The world where she’d been nothing to anyone, not tethered nor tied, not fitting in anywhere . . . And that had almost killed her. She picked up her phone and texted her friends: 9–1–1.

Not five minutes later, Ivy, Willa, and Molly met her at the fountain in the courtyard. Sadie explained the situation, trying not to freak out. “I mean what’s he thinking?” she asked. “A date? With me? Is he insane?”

“I don’t get the problem,” Molly said. “He asked you out. It’s sweet. You should go. I bet he takes you somewhere really nice and you can get dressed to kill and drive him crazy all night.”

Willa nodded. “And aren’t you dying to see what he looks like beneath those sexy suits?”

Sadie bit her lip because she had seen what he looked like beneath those sexy suits.

Except . . . not really. It’d been pretty dark, and so cold they’d left on a lot layers. It’d been more of a braille situation, though her fingers and tongue knew their way around his body pretty well . . .

Ivy caught her expression and went brows up. She clearly recognized there was so much more to tell but was kind enough not to ask questions with an audience.

“I know I’m with Lucas and all,” Molly said. “And I’m crazy in love. But I’ve worked out with Caleb, and you should know, he’s holy-cow hot.”

This was something Sadie already knew.

“And best yet,” Molly went on, “for being rich and kind of famous, he’s a good guy, just really . . . normal.”

Actually, in Sadie’s book, “normal” was not a point in his favor. Wes had been textbook “normal.” But then he’d been cruel and tried to break her down.

No. Scratch that. She’d done that to herself. And she’d walked away from men for a bit. But a bit had turned into three years and it was entirely possible she was still broken.

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