Trinity Harbor 2 - Ask Anyone by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780778329770
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2010-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

13

To Bobby’s everlasting regret, Maggie had agreed to pinch-hit for his vacationing hostess that night. He’d forgotten about that when he’d suggested that

Jenna hang around and have dinner with him. Now his secretary was regarding him speculatively every time he poked his head out of the kitchen.

“Expecting someone special, boss?” Maggie inquired, looking particularly smug.

“Not special,” he said a little too quickly, then floundered. “Just someone.”

“It wouldn’t happen to be Jenna, would it?”

He stared at her. “Why would you ask that?”

Maggie didn’t even attempt to contain her amusement. “Because she said to tel you, if you asked, that she’d be back in twenty minutes or so. She

was taking Darcy over to Daisy’s.”

Relief warred with annoyance. “Couldn’t you have told me that before?”

“You didn’t ask,” she reminded him. “For al I knew, you were peering around out here hoping to catch a glimpse of the mayor, who’s over in the far

corner, by the way.”

Sure enough, Harvey, dressed in beige, was seated as far from the kitchen as he could get at a table of six men. Al but Harvey were wearing a

rainbow of polo shirts, suggesting they’d just left a golf course. Harvey had probably hoped that Bobby wouldn’t spot him in his dul jacket amid al those

pastels. It must be kil ing the mayor to have Bobby see that he’d broken his personal resolution never to set foot in the restaurant until Bobby got over his

fool notion of putting something other than condos on al that valuable waterfront land.

Bobby grinned at Maggie. “I think I’l drop by and see if they’re enjoying the food.”

“Are you sure you want to do that?” she asked. “It’l probably give him indigestion, and he’l run al around town blaming it on your cooking.”

Confident of his own culinary skil s and those of his staff, Bobby replied, “I think I can afford to take my chances. Just last week a Richmond food

critic said this place was worth the drive. I believe he described our menu as ‘a cut above the usual, bordering on the sensational.’”

“Not that you care what the critics think, right, boss?” Maggie regarded him with another of those annoyingly amused looks.

After casting one last scowl at her, Bobby crossed the packed restaurant, pausing to greet several regular local customers along the way. He

noticed that the mayor was looking everywhere except directly at him. He was probably stil holding out hope that Bobby hadn’t seen him and was simply

cruising the room for compliments on the food.

“Good evening, Mr. Mayor,” Bobby said, keeping his tone friendly but impossible to ignore as he stood right smack in the mayor’s line of vision.

“Bobby,” Harvey said tersely, not quite meeting his gaze.

“I’m surprised to see you in here,” Bobby said. “Especial y since I’m no closer to putting condos on that property than I ever was.”

Fury immediately stained the mayor’s cheeks a bright red. “I could tie you up with zoning regulations for years,” Harvey blustered before he could

catch himself.

“So you’ve threatened on more than one occasion,” Bobby agreed mildly.

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