Sweet Little Lies by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781472242914
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2016-06-27T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

#JustLikeThat

Typically as summer progressed and more tourists poured into San Francisco, Pru got buried in work. This summer was no different. She worked long days, during which time she dedicated most of her daydreams to one certain sexy Finn O’Riley and what he looked like in her bed.

And what he did to her in it . . .

“What are you thinking about?” Jake asked her at the end of a shift while she was doing paperwork. “You keep sighing.”

“Um . . .” She struggled to come up with something not X-rated. “I’m thinking about how much of a slave driver you are.”

“Uh huh,” he said, not fooled. “You tell Finn yet?”

“I’m getting there,” she said, her stomach tightening in panic and anxiety at the thought.

“Pru—”

“I know, I know!” She blew out a breath. “You don’t have to say it. I’m stalling. Big time.”

His voice was quiet, almost gentle. “You’re really into him.”

She closed her eyes and nodded.

His hand slipped into hers and he squeezed her fingers. “You want a chance with him.”

She nodded again.

“Chica, to have that chance, you’ve got to tell him before your window of opportunity closes and things go too far.” He waited until she looked at him. “Before you sleep with him or—”

Oh boy.

“—I’ve got this,” she said. “I know what I’m doing.” But they both knew she had no idea what she was doing.

That night, Elle and Willa dragged Pru out for “ladies’” night.

They surprised her when they ended up at a lovely spa, snacking on cute little sandwiches and tea before deciding on their individual treatments.

Pru stared at the spa’s menu, a little panicked over the luxury that she couldn’t really afford.

“It’s my treat,” Elle said, covering the prices with her hand. “This was my idea. I owe Willa a birthday present.”

Willa smiled. “Cuz I can’t afford it either.”

“But it’s not my birthday,” Pru said.

“Pretend,” Elle said. “I want a mani/pedi and a Brazilian, and I don’t like to primp alone.”

Which is how Pru ended up with a mani/pedi and her very first Brazilian.

The next day it rained all day long. Pru joked to Jake that after eight long hours on the water—in the rain—she felt like Noah.

Jake felt no mercy at all. “Make the money now, chica. Come wintertime you’ll be whining like Thor does for that mini chow across the street, the one who’s got fifty pounds on him and would squash him like a grape if given the chance.”

So she worked.

At the end of another crazy day, she changed out of her uniform into a sundress and left Pier 39. She was Thor-less. After a stunt where he’d rolled in pigeon poo for some mysterious reason that only made sense to himself, Jake had once again taken him to the South Bark Mutt Shop for grooming.

All Pru wanted to do was to go home and crawl into her bed. For once she was too tired to even dream about having Finn in that bed with her. She wouldn’t be able to lift a finger.

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