Saving Kyle: A Steamy First Responder Second Chance Romance (Heroes With Badges Book 2) by Amber Thielman

Author:Amber Thielman [Thielman, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Kyle

She looked great tonight, Amanda did, dressed in a silky black dress that was so short it teased the top of her thighs. She wore knee-high boots—hooker boots, as Hallie called them—and her lush blond hair fell about her shoulders, rolling seductively down her neck.

“You look—great,” I said, glancing down at my work jeans and mostly-clean button up flannel. “I feel like I underdressed.”

“You’re always handsome,” she said, stepping up to kiss me on the lips, catching me off guard. I smiled meekly but didn’t say anything, walking with Amanda into the restaurant she’d chosen for dinner. At my mother’s relentless insistence, I’d finally agreed to go on a date with Amanda, who had been calling and stopping by the station incessantly asking me if I wanted to go out for coffee. I’d finally just relented, hoping that the date would go to crap and she’d finally realize that I wasn’t worth the time or effort. However, by the time our date night came around it had gone from a casual coffee date to a higher-end restaurant dinner in Emerald Summit. How it got there I had no idea, but I hoped this date would end soon. I could be polite. That’s all I owed her.

“I’ve always wanted to come into this place, but never had the opportunity,” she said to me as the waiter sat us at a glass top table in the corner. “It’s lovely, isn’t it?”

I had to admit, it was. It was lovely. And probably expensive as all get out, too. And nothing like mine and Mack’s little hole in the wall Mexican place she loved so much.

Forget about it. Don’t think about her right now.

“Order whatever you’d like,” I told Amanda, forcing Mack from the forefront of my mind. “Obviously, I’m treating.”

Amanda’s eyes lit up like a schoolgirl at her first dance and she skimmed the menu, mumbling to herself under her breath. I took a quick glance at the front of the sheet, deciding on the fifteen-dollar hamburger, and as Amanda mulled over her choices I slipped my phone out of my pocket to check the screen, always hoping but never expecting communication from Mackenzie. Three weeks. It had been three weeks since she’d walked out of my life again, and I resented myself every day for it. I still called her daily, even if it was just once, to leave a message and keep her up on what was happening here. I don’t know if she listened to them or not—probably just deleted them—but it made me feel connected to her still, if only a little. At least she hadn’t changed her number yet.

I slipped the phone back into my pocket and glanced up just as Amanda laid the menu aside and took a sip of her ice water, gazing at me over the crowded tabletop. Her lips were stained red, leaving a slight mark on the glass. She set it down and leaned forward, positioning her arms in such a way that her breasts perked up considerably.

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