Winning the Wedding War: A sweet small town, enemies to lovers romance (Tall Dark and Driven Book 2) by Barbara DeLeo

Author:Barbara DeLeo [DeLeo, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

The next day, Erin knocked on her father’s bedroom door and went in. He’d summoned her from the kitchens, and she planned to get in and out as quickly as possible.

While it didn’t make her happy that her father was in bed feeling unwell again today, not having him interfering with their preparations for the food challenge was one small blessing.

Since they’d lost the venue challenge, and then her second close encounter with Nick at Bluejay’s yesterday, she’d tried to put all thoughts of Nick aside and had instead begun to worry constantly about getting the food right. Her stomach was in knots, and she kept checking and re-checking every detail.

She knew they could win this. Knew it. But the old voices in her head kept whispering that she had to not only know she could do it, but she had to show it, too, especially to her father. Did they have enough point of difference? Would their service be okay? Would she ever feel the hot pressure of Nick’s mouth against hers again?

She shook her head. No, she would not think about Nick’s arms wrapped around her, or the spicy sweetness of his breath as he whispered against her cheek. Nor would she imagine what it might feel like to have the warm length of him pressed against her. In his bed. She shook her head. Again.

Her father was sitting up, speaking on a cell phone, a small television playing a horse race beside him. She sat on a chair at the side of the bed and waited until he’d finished. She noticed how red his cheeks were, his thinning hair damp from perspiration. Apart from anything else he shouldn’t be bothered by the stress of talking about the business right now, so she’d try to make this quick.

“Sorry, I haven’t got long, Dad,” she said when he’d put the phone down. “Faith and I have a meeting with a menu consultant tomorrow to check that everything’s right for Thursday, so I need to be down there making final arrangements. I think I have—”

Her father held his hand up to stop her talking, then pointed the remote at the television and suddenly the room was quiet. “Then it’s just as well we can have this talk now. Shut the door,” he said as he boosted himself up on his pillows.

“You don’t need to worry about any of this,” she said as she took her seat again after closing the door. “We’re really confident we can win the food challenge. We’ve made things a lot more contemporary, a little more European, which is obviously what Amy Williams likes.”

“You’re changing things?” he said as he struggled to sit up further.

“Yes. We need to be more authentic. More approachable and reflect who we really are.”

Her father’s color began to deepen.

“The doctors have told you to take it easy before your operation, and you need to concentrate on that so you don’t need to be worried about any of it. We have it all covered.

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