Second Chance at Silver Springs by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2022-08-25T18:51:50+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

You don’t have to do this, Gabriel read from the text Rosalie had just sent him.

It wasn’t the first time she’d given him that particular option, either. For the last two days, she’d been repeating variations of it through other texts and calls. She’d also added so many apologies that Gabriel had lost count.

However, he hadn’t lost count of just how many times he’d gotten pissed off when Reggie had tried to pressure Rosalie into going to the reunion dance with him by insisting he could stop “ugly rumors.”

Gabriel hadn’t actually heard such rumors with his own ears, but he didn’t doubt they were floating around out there. Also didn’t doubt that Reggie had been fueling them as a way to get Rosalie to come back to him. That had only pissed Gabriel off even more, and if Rosalie hadn’t lied and said she was going with him, he would have asked her on the spot.

Of course, now he had doubts about doing this.

Not doubts about coming to Rosalie’s rescue. She almost certainly could have handled her own rescue, but he’d been glad to help. No, his doubts centered around the fact that this wasn’t a good idea since it could crank up the gossip mill about them. Which would almost certainly happen once they stepped inside the high school gym where the reunion was being held. Still, it was too late to back out now, and that was the reminder running through his head when he knocked on Rosalie’s door to pick her up for their date.

She answered the moment he knocked, an indication she’d been right there, waiting for him. One look at her, and Gabriel’s tongue landed in the vicinity of the porch floor. Oh, man. He was toast.

Rosalie was wearing a red dress that hugged every one of her curves, and she’d ditched her ponytail tonight. Her blond hair tumbled over her shoulders in loose curls that made him want to reach out and touch them. Then again, there really wasn’t any part of her that he didn’t want to touch right now.

“You look...” they said at the same moment. Then stopped. Waited a heartbeat. “Amazing,” they finished, again at the same moment.

So, she obviously approved of his “dressy casual” choice of black jeans and white button-down shirt. Probably approved of him, too, judging by the way her gaze skimmed over his body. That wasn’t a good thing. Because this mutual admiration could turn to something scalding hot if they weren’t careful.

Gabriel felt a little foolish when he offered her a wrist corsage, one he’d picked up from Petal Pushers just minutes earlier. He’d originally ordered one with pink roses, but the florist had informed him that he should choose something that would better coordinate with Rosalie’s red dress. Something that was apparently all over town because folks had seen her pick up said dress from the dry cleaner’s. Folks had described it as the color of the apple Eve had sampled in the Garden of Eden and that it fit her like second skin.

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