Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Burning Kiss (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Fire Protection Specialist Book 2) by Jen Talty

Author:Jen Talty [Talty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-01-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Claire smoothed down the front of her miniskirt, doing a one-eighty degree turn in the mirror. Louisa had been kind enough to let her keep some of her things in the bedroom she’d called home between college and her travels with the Peace Corps before getting her own apartment in Bethesda. Since Louisa had gotten sick, Claire had made a point of coming home every weekend and tried to make it home for dinner at least once a week.

Gathering her hair and holding it behind her head, she contemplated putting it up.

Hunter preferred it down.

She reached for a ponytail holder and a clip. Twisting her hair, she pulled it back, leaving a few strands s out to fan her face. Satisfied that Hunter would hate her outfit, and her hair, she left the comfort of her bedroom and made her way downstairs. Dinner would certainly prove to be interesting to say the very least. She knew Louisa would play matchmaker, but what she didn’t count on was Hunter’s willingness to play along.

Keyword: Play.

“Don’t you look stunning,” Louisa said, sitting at the head of the table in the dining room. Her IV drip perched next to her. Louisa did her best to look as pretty as possible by wearing a little makeup, styling what hair she had left, and wearing designer shawls to cover her comfortable pajamas that didn’t give her bed sores. Most nights she actually ate in her room with Judy, or a staff nurse, or one of her friends that came to visit. But when the family visited, she did her best to make it to the dinner table.

“She’s always the prettiest girl in the room,” Judy said, sitting to the left of Louisa, Gerry in the seat to the right.

The table sat ten comfortably and her father had always sat at the opposite end, but no one ever sat there now and the wait staff never set a place setting.

Claire wasn’t quite sure where to sit. Most dinners included other family members or she usually sat next to Judy, but what if Hunter wanted to be across from his father.

“This is all wrong,” Louisa said, waving her arms frantically. “Judy, dear. You should be sitting next to your adoring husband so the two lovebirds can play footsie under the table.”

Swallowing her sarcastic remark, she took her seat, leaving a space between her and Hunter’s mother, while Judy scurried across the room to be by Gerry. If someone had told Claire ten years ago that she’d be forced to date Hunter she would have laughed hysterically at the absurdity of it. She’d loved him back then, so she thought they’d be together forever.

Now she just wanted to get this over with. She figured maybe three or four dates and they’d be able to say they’d given it the good old college try.

“Where is the prodigal son?”

Louisa gasped.

“I didn’t mean it that way.” But she really had. Her frustration level was at the breaking point. One more cutest couple comment and she’d blow up like the Fourth of July.

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