Wildstone 07 - Love for Beginners by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis [Shalvis, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
ISBN: 9780063025431
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Goodreads: 55276647
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2021-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Step 14: Don’t give up.

Simon’s day had been long and unsatisfying. It’d begun at dawn when he’d been yanked out of a dream by the sound of banging. He’d found his dad lying on the bathroom floor, head beneath the bathroom sink fixing a leaky pipe.

With a hammer.

After playing plumber, things had gone downhill from there. Running Armstrong Properties wasn’t particularly difficult, it just meant managing a lot of people with a lot of balls in the air, balls that continuously affected their bottom line.

He wasn’t a big fan of the people-managing part of the job, or the hours it added to the actual work. And then there was what was really on his mind. Or who.

Emma. Sweet, sexy, amazingly resilient, strong Emma—whom he hadn’t seen since the other night. Feeling grumpy, starving, and not a little frustrated, he pulled into the parking lot behind his apartment building.

At the same time as Alison.

Great. Perfect. He loved his cousin. He did. But he was already completely off-balance and out of sorts as he got out of his car with a bag of food he’d picked up from the diner.

Alison’s eyes lit up. “Yes. I knew I could score dinner here.”

“You know where else you could find dinner? At your place.”

“Sure, but I’d have to cook it first. I tried calling and texting you all day. I’ve got questions for you. And stuff to tell you.”

“Good or bad stuff?”

“Um . . . depends on your mood.”

“I’m in a not-in-the-mood-for-questions-and-stuff mood.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. Did I give you the impression that this was optional?” She smiled. “It’s not.” She followed him through the lot toward the building. “So . . . you and Emma?”

“Not going there.”

She kept pace with him. “You do realize you kissed my mortal enemy and business partner.”

“It was a onetime thing, and—” He stopped short when her words kicked in. “Business partner?”

“See, if you’d called me back, you’d know this by now. I’m going into business with Emma.”

“My Emma?”

She went brows up. “Your Emma?”

He worked at giving his blank face, when he was feeling anything but blank. “She’s a patient and a friend.”

“Ah, but she’s no longer your patient. She fired you, remember? And as for being her friend, like I told Emma, I don’t know any friends who kiss with tongue.”

Simon ran a hand over his face. “I’ve got to delete that security app from Dad’s phone. And get Kelly to stop gossiping. They’re like two middle schoolers.”

“Yeah, good luck with that. Also, I’d have paid money to watch Emma fire you.”

“We’re not discussing this.” Not the firing, and not the resulting kisses, which were currently in heavy rotation in his nighttime fantasies. “The partnership with Emma. Go.”

“You’re hangry, so I’m going to forgive the asshole alpha tone. I get it. But yes. I’m trying to tell you something. You know I’ve been looking for something I could take on that was separate from Armstrong Properties.”

“No, I didn’t know that. I thought you were happy there.”

“I am. I’m very happy there, and I love the work.

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