The Wolf Diaries by Bridget Essex

Author:Bridget Essex [Essex, Bridget]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Supernatural Romance
Published: 2018-06-25T23:00:00+00:00

Tess leaned against the side of her desk and folded her arms in front of her, gazing at the pizza I’d set on the coffee table.

“Chef Papa’s?” she asked, and her mouth quirked up at the corners.

Chef Papa’s has a pretty recognizable pizza box in that it’s black with a big red chef’s hat right on top…which is exactly what this one had. I shoved my hands into my pockets, gave a cursory little shrug, then grinned at her.

“Only the best,” I said, head to the side, “by way of apology.”

Tess sighed again and shook her head, advancing across the room to sit down on one of the overstuffed chairs and raise a brow at me. “Have a seat,” she said, indicating the couch, then pulled a slim little drawer out of the coffee table and took out napkins. “Again,” she told me, handing me a paper napkin, “you didn’t do anything wrong.”

Her hand lingered in mine just a heartbeat too long. There was noticeable warmth in that touch, but then her fingers were gone, her gaze on the pizza box before us.

I set the napkins on my lap and shrugged a little uneasily. “I mean…last night didn’t exactly go as anyone intended, I’d wager.”

She snorted at that, and then she chuckled for a long moment, almost helplessly, leaning back in the plush chair and placing a hand over her eyes as she laughed. “My goodness…I think you have that right,” she sighed, then sat up a little straighter and opened the pizza box.

The billowing aroma of pure heaven filled the room almost instantly. Tess leaned forward, closed her eyes and inhaled it, her whole expression softening.

This is gonna be corny as all hell, but here goes:

She was inhaling pizza. She shouldn’t have been gorgeous, okay? I know that.

And yet, she somehow was.

I hated myself more than a little in that moment as she leaned over the pizza box, her face soft and happy and lovelier than I could have ever imagined, as I watched that loveliness, my own heart growing within me.

It’s almost as if I was setting myself up for failure,

Tess is majorly unavailable.

And I know that.

I repeat: I’m not stupid.

But love sometimes is.

Tess’s eyes snapped open, and she caught me gazing at her, which I tried to play off as a friendly gesture and grinned at her, but I was pretty sure that there was a blush rising up my neck. I cleared my throat, motioned to the pizza. “Did I get all the toppings right?”

Tess scrunched up her nose, and glanced down at it.

“Got everything except the pineapple,” she told me with a smile.

“You mean I got it perfectly,” I teased. “Pineapple on a pizza is the purest form of evil.”

“No, a pizza without pineapple is the purest form of evil,” she corrected with a sniff.

“You’re a pineapple on pizza lover? We seriously can’t be friends.”

She flicked her gaze quickly in my direction just to make sure I was joking, but my grin and my teasing tone were a dead giveaway.

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