Tempting Her Neighbor (a Georgeville novella) by Laura Jardine

Author:Laura Jardine [Jardine, Laura]
Format: epub
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Scorched)
Published: 2017-04-30T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Cole groaned when he heard the knock on the door. Now he had to haul himself off the damn couch.

He knew who it was. His mother. He’d totally forgotten she’d said she would come down from Ottawa today, two weeks after he’d moved to Georgeville.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to see her. He did. But she always had way too much energy, and it was exhausting to be around her.

He put down his book and headed to the door.

It wasn’t his mom.

No, it was Rachel. In a tempting little dress, her hair pulled up high.

The woman sure knew how to make his heart race.

“I’ve got the day off, so I was thinking…” She rested her hip against the doorframe. “How about you come over in a few minutes and—”

“No,” he snapped.

She frowned, then peered at him from beneath her long eyelashes. “What’s wrong, lover boy? If you come over in ten minutes, maybe I’ll just happen to be in the shower.”

He put a hand to his forehead and shook his head. “I can’t. Not today.”

“Later?”

“No, I…” He glanced at the driveway just as a familiar blue Toyota pulled up.

Rachel turned to see what he was looking at. “You have a visitor? A woman?”

“Yeah. And I need you to get out of here or it’s going to be really uncomfortable for both of us.” He shook his head again. “Actually, it’s probably too late.”

If Rachel left now, it might not be too late for her. But it would still be too late for him. His mom had to have seen her, and she’d bug him endlessly about it. Her visit would be even more exhausting than usual.

“I don’t need you to meet my mother.”

Her eyes widened. “Your mother. Why didn’t you say so?” A smile flashed across her face.

Had Rachel been wondering… Shit. Had she seriously thought he had another woman coming over? Really, it was a damned miracle he was sleeping with one woman right now.

Hell, would Rachel really be jealous if there was someone else? It seemed like it.

“She looks awful young to be your mother,” Rachel said as his mom got out of the car and waved.

“She is. Teen pregnancy. I ruined her life.”

Not that his mother saw it that way. At least, she would never admit it. But if she’d never gotten pregnant, she probably would have kicked the asshole who was his father out of her life much sooner. However, being a pregnant sixteen-year-old who was disowned by her parents hadn’t left her with very good options.

And now, in jeans and a white blouse, her dark hair hanging below her shoulders, his mother didn’t look forty-five. She definitely didn’t look old enough to have a twenty-eight-year-old son.

“I don’t…” Rachel began, then cleared her throat. “Well, I’ll get out of your way. See you later.” She hurried back to her apartment as his mom unloaded a box from the trunk.

A few minutes later, after being stuck in an enthusiastic hug for a full minute, Cole learned what was in that box—a shit ton of food.

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