Bayou Dreaming by Lexi Blake

Author:Lexi Blake [Blake, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

chapter eight

Zep wondered what the hell had happened with her parents. He’d thought it had gone fairly smoothly, but now he realized she’d been silent most of the night. “Your mom seemed to be in a good mood.”

“She’s good at putting on a show.” Roxie sat in the passenger seat with Daisy in her lap. The dog had promptly fallen asleep the minute the truck had started down the paved drive that led to the highway.

Roxie wasn’t good at putting on a show. She wasn’t good at hiding her emotions at all. He’d always thought that she had a spectacular poker face, but spending all this time with her had taught him that when she was really emotional, she shut down.

She’d shut down on everything tonight and he needed to know why.

Direct questioning wouldn’t help. She would reply with one-word answers, and they might lose all the intimacy he’d fought so hard to win.

Luckily he knew exactly what to do. When he’d realized that she’d barely eaten all night, he’d known what had to be done.

“Hey, you missed the turn.” She didn’t sound like she cared all that much.

“We’re not going home.” He liked saying the word home and associating it with her.

She finally turned toward him. “Zep, I’m tired.”

“You barely ate.”

“I wasn’t hungry. And honestly, I wasn’t in the mood for steak.”

“How about some gumbo?”

A brow rose over her eyes. “You’re going to make gumbo at this time of night? I thought that was one of those things that takes hours to make.”

A good gumbo could take all day, but he wasn’t going to be cooking. “I texted my brother two hours ago. He left a pot on the stove for us. Guidry’s is closed, but I have a key. I wasn’t much in the mood for steak, either.”

He turned down the road that led to the marina. There was a glorious full moon hanging over the bay.

“You’re hungry?” She asked the question with a hint of anticipation. Like she could be hungry if he was.

“I’m starving. Your dad grilled me way longer than Harry grilled those steaks,” he said, pulling into the parking lot. At this time of night it was completely empty. He pulled up to the back of the building.

“Then I could eat. I don’t think we have much back at home.”

“You have lots of ramen noodles and cereal.”

She shrugged. “I eat out a lot, either here or at Dixie’s.”

“Well, let’s get some food. I think we were both too afraid to eat at the B and B. I know I was worried I would screw up and give away the game. Your father is an excellent interrogator. I didn’t realize what he was doing until he sprang the ‘what are your intentions toward my daughter’ part.”

Her eyes widened. “He did what?”

Daisy’s head came up as he opened the door and eased out of the truck. She got to her feet and jumped out with him. “He didn’t say it in those words, but I got a lot of questions about my job and my prospects.

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