The Do-Over by Piper Rayne

Author:Piper Rayne [Rayne, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Piper Rayne, Inc.

We’re waiting for dinner to be served when I slide my hand under the table and rest it on Knox’s knee. His arm is over the back of my chair, his fingers fiddling with a strand of my hair that Blanca curled.

“Did Knox tell you he has to give me shots?” Patrice says, and her husband gives her a death stare.

I glance at Knox as he shakes his head. “I told you I’m not doing it.”

She waves him off. “We’re trying to have a baby,” she whispers and eyes the other side of the table.

The two guys seated with us keep looking at me and then their phones. Their wives are talking nonstop about kids and school.

“That’s great,” I say.

“But Knox needs to give me a fertility shot during our shift.” Patrice clenches her teeth.

Knox’s body doesn’t show any discomfort with Patrice’s displeasure.

“I’m sure he’ll do it.”

“Nope,” Knox says as though he’s half in the conversation and half out of the conversation. I squeeze his leg, and he slides his thigh closer to me and tugs on my strand of hair. “I said no.”

“Are you her sister?” one of the guys says from across the table.

Here we go again.

“No, she’s not,” Knox answers for me. “DuPont, put the damn phone away.”

Surprisingly, they do, but I think it has more to do with the meals being placed in front of us than Knox’s request. I sit up straighter, seeing chicken and steak on my plate. I glance at Knox.

He cringes. “Sorry.”

“It’s okay,” I say.

“It is?” he asks.

“Yeah, could you just take them off my plate? I’ll eat the mashed potatoes and vegetables.”

He takes the meat off my plate, but then he flags down a waiter. “Do you guys have a vegetarian option? I must’ve ordered wrong for my date.”

The man looks at me and takes my plate away. “I’ll be right back.”

Knox sits there while everyone else eats.

“Eat,” I whisper to him.

“No, I’ll wait.”

“Yours will get cold.”

“It’s fine. It won’t take much time to eat it.” He sips his beer.

Patrice talks about how her husband would’ve prepared such a better meal. Five minutes later, the two men across the table are already done.

I pinch Knox’s thigh. “Eat.”

“No.” He exaggerates the no.

Just when I’m about to pick up his fork and cut his meat for him like a child, the server returns with a plate pretty much full of vegetables, but I’ll take it.

“We’ll stop somewhere on the way home,” Knox whispers in my ear. I appreciate his offer, but his breath in my eardrum is increasing my libido.

I use my fork and knife to cut up my green beans as though they’re a steak. I’m used to not being catered to at a big event like this, and I’m happy to eat whatever they offer. The group at our table talks about the detective retiring, and the guy across the table who thinks I look like Leilani tells Knox that he’s up against some tough competition for the detective’s position.

“He’s got it,” Patrice says.

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