Sugar Rush by Rachel Astor

Author:Rachel Astor [Astor, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Series, love, short romance, entangled, category, bliss, candy recipe, enemies to lovers, bait and switch, recipe, rachel astor, forbidden love, sugar rush, enemies
ISBN: 2940015218602
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Published: 2012-08-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Nick listened slack-jawed as Dulcie relayed the story.

His father had dated Ms. Carter.

That Ms. Carter.

When he hadn’t heard from Dulcie right away, he’d almost regretted exchanging numbers with her the other night, since he’d feared she was brushing him off for good. So when he got her urgent text, at first he was thrilled.

Nick was not at all prepared for this little tidbit of information.

He wasn’t so shocked his father had dated an older woman—besides, she was only five or so years older—as much as he was shocked his father had found someone like that in the first place. He hadn’t seen Ms. Carter in years—not since he’d gone to Cambridge for school—but he still remembered the way that black dress showed off all her…er…assets the last time he’d been to the Assembly of Chocolatiers competition. No doubt, Ms. Carter was pretty hot for an older woman.

Dulcie stared at him, waiting for his reaction. He should say something, but…what do you say when hit with news like that?

Nick put his palms up to his eyes and rubbed them. He cleared his throat. “Well, that certainly is unexpected news.”

Dulcie nodded. “You think?”

“Um, so I guess it ended badly?” he asked.

Dulcie shrugged. “The way they seem to hate each other’s guts, I’d say that would be a safe assumption.”

Nick nodded, his mind still whirring with shock and, if honest, a little bit of awe for his dad. Truth be told, once the initial surprise wore off, a newfound glimmer of respect for his old man might take its place.

“I just… I don’t know what to say.”

Dulcie nodded. “I know the feeling.”

“So they dated,” Nick said, shaking his head once more in disbelief, “then obviously they stopped.”

Dulcie nodded. “And something went very, very wrong.”

“Right.”

“So what do we do?”

Nick had no idea. “Well, it was a long time ago, right?”

Dulcie shrugged. “I think so. I certainly don’t remember it. Or maybe Grams just hid it really well.”

“Yeah,” Nick said, though a glimmer of something, not a memory, but just a notion of his father having been…busy a lot when he was a teenager—not that he paid much attention—surfaced. The more his father stayed away in those years, the happier Nick was. “I mean, what is there to do? They’ve stated their reasons for us not to see each other…”

Dulcie sat up straighter. “Which we will certainly take into advisement,” she said, with mock seriousness.

Nick raised one eyebroow. “But it’s not like the feud has anything to do with us.” He leaned toward her again, remembering the last time he’d leaned in close and how it had ended so…pleasantly.

“We barely even remember the feud,” Dulcie added, a fake innocence in her words, her eyelashes batting.

Which drove Nick nuts. No one had ever made him lose his senses like her before. He took a deep breath to remember what he was saying. “It seems to me it’s all in the past.”

“Completely over and done with,” Dulcie said, leaning close now, too.

They just looked at each other for a moment, the hair on Nick’s arms standing on end.

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