Pride & Puppies by Lizzie Shane

Author:Lizzie Shane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: None
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2022-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

“I hereby call the May meeting of the Leneghan Family Book Club to order and open the floor to new business. Beks?”

George frowned at his computer screen. “Okay, who gave Maggie a gavel?”

It was pink. And bedazzled.

Lori raised her hand. “Petition for the court, your honor?”

George groaned, dropping his head onto his hands. “Why are we encouraging this?”

“The petition shall be heard.” Maggie regally inclined her head.

“Petition for an update on George and the Hot Doctor situation.”

“All in favor?”

“Are you kidding me?” George glared at his sisters as four ayes echoed through his speakers. “I hate you all.”

“Petition passes. George?”

“There is no update. We’re friends. End of story.”

“He’s still seeing her. He went with her to her family barbecue today,” Beks—the traitor—spilled.

“Ooh! A date!”

George shot daggers at his sisters through the web cam. “It wasn’t a date. I was only there for moral support. She was nervous about meeting her father’s new girlfriend.”

“See?” Beks said—and his other sisters all nodded.

“Definitely in too deep.” Maggie shook her head.

Lori sighed. “You always do this.”

“Excuse me,” George protested. “I always mess up my relationships in new and special ways, thank you very much.”

“So you’re admitting there’s a relationship.”

He groaned. “Do we have to talk about this?”

The chorus of yeses was deafening.

“What happened at the barbecue?” Lori asked.

Nearly at the same time, Beks said, “If you aren’t dating her, what are you doing? Getting in too deep on an imaginary relationship?”

“Nothing happened at the barbecue,” George insisted, ignoring Beks’s words—and the acidic bite in them. “It was just a barbecue.”

Charlotte’s father’s new girlfriend had been quiet, as advertised. When George had a chance to chat with her, she’d seemed more nervous than anything—and she’d smiled shyly when Charlotte bounded over to her to invite her to play one of the lawn games the family loved.

It had all gone well.

Though his sisters weren’t the only ones who mistook him and Charlotte for a couple.

George had become friends with Charlotte’s sister Elinor last year after Charlotte tried to set them up, but they didn’t hang out together all that often—largely due to how busy Elinor was with her job and her fiancé and her quest to become the next big young adult author—but when they did spend time together, it was always comfortable.

He’d never told Elinor about his feelings for Charlotte—since, to be fair, he hadn’t even acknowledged them to himself until recently—so she didn’t realize she was salting the wound when she sidled up to him at the barbecue while Charlotte was playing lawn Jenga to tell him it was about time the two of them realized they were perfect for one another.

He should have known what her family would assume when he came with her to a barbecue that was all family and significant others, but he hadn’t been thinking of that when he offered to be her moral support. He’d only been thinking of Charlotte and making things a little easier for her.

“She doesn’t see me that way,” he’d explained—and then, because that

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