Tristan by Cora Brent

Author:Cora Brent [Brent, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Cadence

I hummed along to the radio on the way to work, tapping my fingers on the steering wheel and grinning like a fruitcake. My entire body felt electrified these days and there was a very muscular, tattooed, wiseass reason why.

Only a few weeks ago I was looking at this guy across my sister’s dining table and thinking I’d never known anyone more irritatingly smug and sexy. But that was life, filled with surprising twists and turns. None was more surprising than the fact that every day I grew a little crazier about Tristan Mulligan. So if I looked like an idiot singing and grinning as I pulled into the high school parking lot then that was his fault.

I was waving at my yawing students and claiming a space in the crowded lot when my phone went off, startling me. My mother was not an early bird and a call from her at this hour was abnormal so I snatched my phone off the empty passenger seat with a sense of dread.

“Mom?”

“Hello sweetheart.” Her smile always carried through in her voice and conjured all the warm safety in the world. My mother’s voice was chocolate chip cookies and fluffy bath towels and crisp sheets. “You’ve been tough to get ahold of lately.”

The stab of guilt was real. Between work and grading English essays and spending every spare moment with Tristan I’d been preoccupied.

“Sorry, I’ve been busy. Is anything wrong?”

“Why would there be?”

“Because you like seven a.m. as much as I like mushrooms, which is not at all.”

A laugh bubbled out of her throat. “I pulled an all nighter finishing my latest book.”

“Is this the new series about the time traveling Viking warrior?”

“It is.”

“I want to read it.”

“I like to think it’s a little too steamy for the eyes of my baby girl.”

The chances were high I’d already experienced every carnal act that found its way into her story and then some but I hesitated to crush my mother’s fantasies of my imaginary innocence. “You’re probably right. I’ve never even been kissed.”

“That’s not what I hear.” Her tone changed, became teasing. There was something else there too, a hint of worry.

Realization hit me. The early call. The not so subtle secret I’d been keeping.

With a sigh I asked the question. “Did you talk to Grandpa?”

“Last night. He wasn’t tattling on you. I asked where you were and he said you were staying at your boyfriend’s house. Of course he assumed I already knew that you even had a boyfriend named Tristan. And thanks to my immense powers of deductive reasoning I concluded his last name was Mulligan. How long has this been going on?”

“Not long.” I swallowed. “I know it must come as a surprise.”

“Not really. That night he showed up at your sister’s house we all noticed the way he was looking at you.”

“How was he looking at me?”

“Like you were the dish he couldn’t wait to sample from the menu.”

“Mom,” I groaned. “Don’t be so corny, this isn’t one of your romance novels.

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