Worth the Wait (Kingston Ale House) by A.J. Pine

Author:A.J. Pine
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled; Select Contemporary; A.J. Pine; Worth the Wait; Kingston Ale House; series; forbidden love; reformed playboy, romance, Microbrewery, Massage therapy, Reality TV, Chicago
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Select Contemporary)
Published: 2016-10-26T03:31:06+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Mom: When are we going to reschedule? It’s been a month, darling.

Grace stared at the text, trying to formulate an answer that would appease her mother yet at the same time prolong the inevitable.

Grace: You’re the one who canceled, Mom. And I have evening appointments, too.

She worried her lip. Maybe petulant teenager wasn’t necessarily the way to go.

Mom: I saw Mark today. He looked absolutely dreadful. Have you two worked it out yet?

Grace exhaled loudly. Just when she was about to crumble under the guilt, her mom had that amazing knack for reminding her why she’d been avoiding her family in the first place.

Grace: I gotta go, Mom. I have a thing. And then I’m working all weekend. Call you Sunday. Love you.

Okay. So she still felt guilty, but this was all for the best. If she exposed Mark’s personal money matters, he’d expose her dad to the whim of the public’s fickle opinion. It was as simple as that.

Someone slid into the booth across from her, and Grace looked up from her phone with a start.

“Whitney,” she said. “I was expecting coffee shop Derek, but not for another fifteen minutes.”

Whitney Gaines pressed her cherry-red painted lips into a smile and tossed her head back with a laugh, her shiny blond locks swaying as if she were in a shampoo commercial.

“I know,” she said. “I’ve been reading your Facebook posts, keeping up, informing the public. Blah blah. But we have a little issue.”

The other woman leaned forward, resting her hands on the table between them. Grace’s brow furrowed.

“Issue?” Grace asked nervously. “I’ve been doing the dates every week, sometimes even more than one a night. I’ve been posting and interacting.”

Whitney waved a hand in the air. “Of course you are. You’re doing exactly what we asked. It just feels a little…lackluster.”

Grace swallowed. She’d had a lovely conversation last week with Ted, the guy from the produce section at Whole Foods. They’d bonded over a love of kale, and he’d even given her a recipe for chipotle kale chips, which she’d made the next day and added to her weekly post. How was that lackluster?

Whitney steepled her fingers in front of her, and if she weren’t so damn pretty, she would have looked like some sort of James Bond villain. But she was just a weather girl who almost got engaged to Jeremy. No big deal.

Grace sipped her club soda.

“It’s okay,” Whitney said, her tone sweet and forgiving, though Grace still wasn’t sure what she’d done wrong. “I know,” she added. “About Jeremy.”

If Grace were a cartoon, her eyes would have popped out of their sockets, dangling from springs. Instead she held in the near spit-take and coughed as she forced her drink down her throat rather than through her nostrils.

She knew. About Jeremy.

What the heck did that mean? She knew she met Jeremy in Madison three weeks ago? She knew they saw each other on a regular basis? Or maybe she knew Jeremy had come to her open dating call, claiming he wanted to be in the running for that first kiss for all of Chicagoland to see.

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