The Wedding Gift by Cara Connelly

Author:Cara Connelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

MICK CARVED HIS pancakes into bite-sized squares and drowned them in syrup. While they soaked, he turned to his fried eggs, popping them so they spilled out onto two slices of whole wheat, and carved that up too.

“Nobody can eat that much first thing in the morning,” Jan informed him.

He grinned. “Watch me.” Forking up some home fries, he wiped them through the egg, then the syrup, and got busy putting away breakfast.

Watching her break a few crumbs off her scone, he pointed his fork at her plate. “Is that all you’re eating?”

“I don’t have much appetite in the morning.”

It seemed strange that he hadn’t known that. In thirty years, they’d never shared breakfast before. Now, sitting across from her in this red pleather booth in this funky Key West diner, he realized he had no idea how she started each morning.

“Breakfast,” he pointed out, “is the most important meal of the day.”

“Yeah, yeah.” She nibbled her scone like a rabbit.

He scooped up some pancake. “Here.”

She eyed his fork like it dripped blood instead of syrup. “Gross.”

He stuck it in his mouth. Tried again with eggy toast. She made a gagging sound.

No wonder she was so slender. He studied her over his mug. She wore another of her skimpy new outfits—blue camisole and white short shorts. With her hair loose around her shoulders, she looked about nineteen.

Every guy in the place had stopped chewing to watch her walk to the booth.

He’d have to get used to the fact that this new Jan turned heads. Men would be all over her. But they were doomed to disappointment, because she was all his.

She caught him smiling smugly. “You’re chipper this morning,” she said, her eyes narrowing suspiciously.

His smile widened. He was chipper, all right. Fresh from the best night of his life, and sitting with the woman who’d made it happen.

“I’m a morning person,” he said, leaving unsaid the obvious point that she wasn’t. That much he’d known already, so he wasn’t surprised she was grumpy, even after wake-up sex that damn near broke the headboard.

She made a face that summed up her opinion of morning people.

He chuckled. Her crabbiness didn’t faze him. He was happy to watch her peck at her scone while he relived last night’s highlights.

And there were many. Being with her was even better than he’d imagined; all the fun of hanging out with his best friend, plus wall-banging sex with the woman he loved.

He still couldn’t believe how into it she was. She liked everything he did to her. More than liked. She wanted him to do it again and again.

The truth was, she’d outlasted him. Only because he’d been sleep deprived, of course. But still, it was a first.

And speaking of sleep, with her wrapped around him like spaghetti, he’d slept better than ever. A few more nights like that and he’d be back on his game. Then he’d make it up to her with a sexathon she’d never forget.

A scrawny gray cat hopped up on the seat beside him.

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