Size Matters by Alison Bliss

Author:Alison Bliss [Bliss, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2016-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Sam couldn’t believe he’d let Leah talk him into getting into her grandfather’s vehicle once again, especially for chocolate mousse of all things. But after another short, death-defying ride in Jack’s unofficial stunt car, they arrived at the Water Gardens in one piece. Barely.

Fuck, someone should really teach that old man how to drive.

As everyone piled out, Sam took a good look around. He didn’t see any water, but he could damn well hear it. And it was loud. “It sounds like a waterfall coming from the other side of that wall.”

“Yep, it is. Actually, it’s lots of them,” Leah replied as her grandma popped open the trunk of their car and grunted as she hefted out a large wicker basket. “Wait, Grandma, I’ll get that for you.”

“No, let me have it,” Sam said, taking the handles of the basket before Leah could grab it. “I’ll carry it. Just tell me where you want it.”

“Thank you, Sam,” both women said simultaneously while smiling sweetly at him. He returned the favor, but something dawned on him, and the grin he wore melted.

Shit. What the hell was he doing?

He was supposed to be putting a bad taste in all of their mouths when it came to his relationship with Leah. Yet here he was trying to be a gentleman by offering to carry heavy things for his fiancée’s grandmother.

Fake fiancée, he mentally corrected. Christ, why couldn’t he seem to remember that? If this plan to make them all hate him was going to work, he would have to stop being himself in front of the others. And that included doing nice shit.

He glanced over at Leah’s father, who gave Sam a slight nod of approval, and a sharp pang of guilt stabbed straight through him. He liked the man. Hell, he liked all of them, though he couldn’t figure out why.

“This way,” Leah said, guiding him down the walkway as the sounds of rushing water grew louder and louder. She motioned to a set of cement stairs ahead. “Watch your step. We have to take these stairs down to the field.”

She started down first, and Sam followed close behind her.

Halfway down, he caught his first glimpse of the gardens. A huge, grassy meadow sat in the middle of an oval concrete stadium. Like a sports arena, except instead of bleachers, there was a solid rock wall surrounding the field. Clear water spouted from the top of the concrete structure, gushed down the jagged rock wall, and landed in the bubbling fountains below.

Picnic tables by the dozen adorned the field, situated under shade trees and surrounded by an array of flower beds and hedges. Leah chose the closest unoccupied wooden table, and he set the basket down on the tabletop as they waited for the others to catch up to them.

When they arrived moments later, Leah’s grandmother motioned to the water fountains surrounding the field. “So what do you think, Sam? Isn’t this a relaxing place to have lunch?”

“Sure,” he said, taking in the sights around him, then shrugging.

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