The Offer She Couldn't Refuse by Ferrarella Marie

Author:Ferrarella, Marie [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-04T12:13:55+00:00

“Waiting for him?” Antoinette dusted her hands off as she walked over to her daughter.

Demi looked up from the stack of menus she had just cleaned. “What?”

“I have been watching you. You keep looking at the door.” Antoinette nodded toward it. “I was wondering if perhaps you are waiting for him.” When Demi said nothing, she added. “The good-looking one.” Still nothing. Antoinette sighed. How had she gotten such stubborn children? “The one who knows how to be a waiter. Pantella.”

“Panetta,” Demi corrected, annoyed. She went back to stacking menus. This was Friday, one of their better days. People liked to splurge a little on paydays.

Antoinette took the correction as an admission. “So you are waiting for him.”

Leave it to her mother to make a giant leap where none was called for. She was almost too weary to be annoyed.

“No, I’m not. I’m just afraid he’ll show up.” And she was. After last night, she really didn’t want to see Jared again for at least a few years. Maybe a century.

Antoinette wasn’t buying. “You can lie to yourself, but do not try to lie to me. I am your mother. I can see things.”

Damn it, why didn’t everyone just leave her alone? She put her mother at the top of the list, then reminded herself that there wouldn’t be a list if it wasn’t for that swaggering corporate hit man.

“Lately, everyone is suffering from vision problems.” Placing menus on the hostess table with a loud thwack, Demi walked away. She needed to do more cooking. “There is nothing to see.”

Antoinette was quick to pick up on the slip. “Everyone? Who is everyone?” She glanced around the modestly filled restaurant, her eyes skimming suspiciously over Theo and his friend. “Someone has seen something and you are not telling me?”

Demi stopped walking. She hung her head, knowing she was going to lose no matter which way she turned. “No, Ma, no one has seen anything. I just meant—”

Facing the front, Antoinette saw the door opening. The satisfied look was immediate. “He’s here. Your patience has been rewarded. Oh, and look, he has brought his daughter.”

Demi turned, her heart sinking even as her anticipation quickened.

Terrific, she thought darkly. He brought reinforcements. Just what she needed.

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