Sweet Gone South by Alicia Hunter Pace

Author:Alicia Hunter Pace
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher: Crimson Romance, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2012-11-25T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Lanie slowly made her way up the sidewalk that would take her to the front door of Lucy’s pretty Victorian cottage. She had Three Cups of Tea tucked under her arm, though she wasn’t sure why. She hadn’t read it. It had been a week since her first official date with Luke and since then they had spent almost all their free time together — until tonight. She hadn’t talked to the book club girls much. In fact, she had been dodging their calls.

She might have stood on Lucy’s front steps until midnight if the door hadn’t burst open, followed by Brantley Kincaid shooting out like a cannon ball. He had a handful of brownies and Beau Bragg perched on his hip. Beau gripped a fat red and blue plastic golf club.

“What are you doing in town?” She took a step away from him. Too blond, too good looking, too charming.

“Tomorrow is my grandmother’s birthday. I just drove down for a quick visit. My godson here — ” Brantley jostled Beau, making him giggle, “ — and I are about to go meet Harris to play nine before dark.”

Lanie smoothed Beau’s hair back. “You’re going to play golf?”

“I golf!” He waved his club in the air. “Bwantley brought for me.”

Home for his grandmother’s birthday. Thinking to bring Beau a gift. This was further evidence that it wasn’t fair that she was uncomfortable with Brantley just because he reminded her of Alexander.

But Alexander had been on her mind more than ever this past week. Her stomach did a little flip, partly from pleasure, partly from fear. The pleasure came from the way Luke held and kissed her. The fear was because of what Luke was going to expect next. No matter what her body tried to tell her mind, she had to remember that in the end, it would let her down. No matter how hungry she had been for affection, no matter how good it felt to be desired, she must never lose sight of that reality.

Brantley nodded toward the door. “They’re all in there though I didn’t hear any book talk going on.”

“We never talk about books in front of men,” she said.

“Or anybody else, I’m betting.” He smiled flirtatiously, though he wasn’t flirting. That was how he smiled at everyone. “I hear you dumped Nathan for my pal Luke.” For some reason, Brantley looked pleased about it.

“The whole of Merritt seems pretty entertained by that. On the upside, business is booming. The gossipmongers keep coming into the shop to sniff out blood. Apparently, from the outside, it looks like I switched partners really fast.”

Brantley laughed and gave Beau a brownie. “I think your girls in there think that’s how it looks from the inside too.”

“Maybe they aren’t as inside as they think they are.” She wanted to be mad at them for discussing her with, of all people, Brantley Kincaid, but how could she be? She’d been dodging their calls — not so much to avoid explaining herself as to be with Luke and Emma.

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