Sweet Treats: A Love Bites Novella by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen [Dallen, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-16T06:00:00+00:00

Kyle was sprawled across Derek’s couch, eating fries and watching Derek attempt to teach Jack some basic ground rules. “So, are you ever planning on asking this girl out or are the two of you going to be that weird old couple who meets up to walk a dog every day?”

Derek frowned at Jack, who didn’t seem to notice that his owner was displeased by his valiant attempts to eat a shoe. “Of course I’m going to ask her out.”

Maybe. Probably.

Kyle seemed to sense the hesitation in his answer. Close friends were annoyingly perceptive like that. Even terribly unperceptive ones like Kyle.

“So, like, sometime this year?” his friend drawled from the couch.

Still staring at the oblivious dog, he struggled with how much to tell his best friend. It was ridiculous that a man at his age should have to ask his friend for relationship advice. He’d never had a problem before.

But then, he’d never been interested in someone like Elise before. Compared to every woman he ever dated, she was…more. Just more. When she walked into a room, the world went from black and white to Technicolor. It went from standard vision to 3-D. It went from… oh hell, he’d never been good with analogies. All he knew was that she was unlike anyone he’d ever met. And what he felt around her was just as new.

All in all, he was in foreign territory…and he needed help.

“I don’t know if she’ll say yes.”

There. He’d said it. After a moment of silence, he turned to face his friend, who had paused in eating, one fry frozen in front of his face. For a second he’d thought maybe his friend was contemplating that statement but then Kyle burst out laughing, his shaggy brown hair falling into his face in his mirth. “Dude, what are you talking about? She hangs out with you every day.”

“I pay her,” he felt compelled to add.

“Not enough to hang with you if she thought you were a creep.” Kyle resumed eating as if this solved everything.

“She’s nice. Maybe she’s just being nice.”

Kyle’s expression grew comically stern and he lowered his voice. “I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice.”

Derek rolled his eyes. “Dude. This is so not the time to quote Road House.”

Kyle switched back to his regular voice as if his Patrick Swayze impersonation never happened. “So she’s nice…nobody is that nice,” Kyle said, the sound of authority ringing in his voice. “She could have found a way to bail on you by now. Besides, you two have been having fun, right? Didn’t you say you guys were having a good time?”

“Yes.” And they were. Or at least, he was. He’d never enjoyed a woman’s company more. And it seemed like she was having a good time too. At least he’d thought so….

He cleared his throat. “There are some rumors going around at work,” he started. When Kyle paused in eating to look up, he added, “About Elise.”

Kyle swallowed his last bite.

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