This Just In... (Harlequin Superromance) by Jennifer McKenzie

Author:Jennifer McKenzie [McKenzie, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“WHEN YOU ASKED if we could do something tonight, this was not what I had in mind,” Sabrina said as Noah piloted the car toward Kyle and Marissa’s house. She’d been thinking more along the lines of dinner out or having a relaxing evening at home. The thought of heading over to her former best friend and ex’s house for a family dinner had never crossed her mind. But here she was, showered, scrubbed and lotioned to within an inch of her life.

Her stomach gurgled, but it was from nerves rather than hunger although the pie on her lap did smell delicious. She was grateful that her mother had happened to have all the ingredients to make her town-famous blueberry-and-lime pie. One that Marissa had always loved.

Sabrina didn’t know why that had been the first call she’d made after she’d agreed to Noah’s outrageous suggestion. Why hadn’t she called him back to explain that this idea was a bad one? She and Noah had only slept together once. Well, okay, more than once, but one night. It was too soon to start introducing each other to the family. The fact that they already knew each other’s families was moot. The step of joining a family dinner was a big one, a sign that this was the start of something permanent.

She clutched the pie plate tighter. And yet, she hadn’t said any of that, hadn’t made a peep about it. No, she’d taken her time getting ready, treating this as if it was her first time meeting the family and wanting to make a good impression. Then she and Noah had driven to her parents’ together to pick up the pie, which meant being invited inside and staying for a drink since, according to her mom, the pie wasn’t finished baking.

Sabrina wasn’t naive enough to think that had been an accident. She could practically see the hope circling her parents’ heads, cartoony white doves and stars, filled with the optimism that perhaps Sabrina might stay in town. Forever. And she’d done nothing to quell the idea.

“Would you rather not go?”

Sabrina realized she was frowning and schooled her features into a more neutral expression. Wrinkles were no one’s friend. Plus, she’d been invited. It wasn’t as if she was crashing a party, as likely to get an escort out the door as a welcoming smile. But the lump in her throat didn’t appear to get the message. And as they pulled up outside a pretty blue-and-white house, she suddenly had a wild desire to ask Noah to turn the car around. She could feed him the pie in bed, so it wasn’t as if it would go to waste.

He turned the car off and faced her, placed a warm hand on her knee. Sabrina felt some of her anxiety ease or at least loosen the chokehold it had on her. “If you really don’t want to do this, we won’t.”

But she could see the look in his eye. The one that told her this was important to him, that he wanted to go to dinner with her by his side.

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