Act Your Age: Daddy Dearest, Book #1 by Eve Dangerfield

Author:Eve Dangerfield [Dangerfield, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“Who are you sleeping with?” Georgie demanded. The two of them were weaving their way out of Nova Cinema toward the little patisserie where they always got coffee after a movie.

“Fuck, George, don’t you at least want to pretend to talk about the movie?”

“The lighthouse is sad and so am I. Who are you sleeping with?”

“A gentleman never tells.”

Georgie snorted. “You weren’t nearly so gallant when we were at uni. Anyone I know?”

“No.”

He could feel his friend staring at him. Georgie had intense single-lidded eyes, as meticulous at spotting anomalies in her personal life as they were spotting damaged heart valves in her patients. “You like her, whoever she is, don’t you?”

Ty groaned. This focused scrutiny was why he’d wanted Georgie’s husband to join them tonight, but Dave hated arthouse films. “They’re always about the fucking ocean,” he said. “Why are they always about the fucking ocean?”

To be fair, this movie had been about a couple finding a baby by the ocean. Ty circumvented a cello player busking behind a woollen hat, hoping that Georgie would take his silence as a hint and drop the matter.

“Tyler. Answer me.”

He looked sideways at her. Like Middleton, Georgie looked much younger than she was; her pale skin was as unlined as it had been when they’d met at an orientation party. They had almost nothing in common, the Queensland farm boy and the Vietnamese-born yuppie, but they’d gotten on like a house on fire. They studied together, backpacked through Asia together, even lived together for a while in their twenties before Georgie’s cat addiction drove him to more hairless pastures. There had never been any sexual attraction between them. The idea of Georgie calling him ‘Daddy’ made Ty want to puke and Georgie swore she was still traumatized from the time she’d accidentally seen his dick in the shower. Still, she was his oldest friend, something that had given Veronica no end of grief. That, and the fact he and George once made a drunken marriage pact, agreeing they’d get hitched if they were fifty and single.

As the one to uncover Veronica’s cheating, Georgie seemed to think she was personally responsible for finding him another fiancée. She constantly badgered him about dating and now she’d (rightly) guessed he was sleeping with someone, she was desperate to find out who it was. Ty knew he had no obligations to tell his friends—or anyone—about Middleton, but Georgie was crafty. If he didn’t throw her a bone there was every chance she’d use her brilliant cardiologist brain to access the information by stealth and uncover a lot more than he was comfortable with her knowing. The sensible thing to do was talk. “You’re right,” he told her. “I’m sleeping with someone.”

Georgie let out an excited squeal.

“Don’t get your hopes up,” Ty warned. “It’s just sex.”

“That could turn into more!”

“It won’t. She’s twenty-five and we work together.”

“Ooh, risky.”

“You would know.”

Before she met Dave, Georgie had had a disastrous fling with a twenty-three-year-old nurse. It had ended on what George called ‘bad terms’ and Ty called ‘a clusterfuck.

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