Calling It by Jen Doyle

Author:Jen Doyle [Doyle, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Thank God she’d gone shopping. Thank God she’d done well at the poker game the night before or she wouldn’t have been able to go shopping. She hadn’t been exaggerating about the car payments.

Dorie looked at the array of bags she’d spread out on the bed in front of her. What she should have done this afternoon was hop on a bus and head straight back to reality. Yet here she was, completely violating her only-about-the-sex point by going to his dinner with management.

With a sigh, Dorie reached into one of the bags. The dress was fine—maybe not Morton’s fine, but nice nonetheless. The shoes, though? Not nice. Not nice at all.

Do-me shoes? Claudia had texted when Dorie’d sent her pictures of the pairs she was considering.

Just don’t show them to your brothers and everyone will go home alive.

To be honest, Dorie hadn’t intended to ever show them to anyone other than Nate. She’d planned to cook him dinner, maybe in nothing but an apron and some completely-unlike-her shoes, and then they’d—

“I’m sorry.”

Dorie nearly shrieked with surprise when she saw Nate standing in the doorway. For goodness sake. “You need to stop doing that.”

He smiled. Damn, he had the most gorgeous smile. He came toward her and put his hands on her waist, bent down to touch his lips to her hair.

She closed her eyes. She was trying not to get used to this. She was trying so very hard. “Sorry about what?”

“Dinner, to start with.” His hands went through her hair and he eased her head back so she was looking into his eyes. Eyes that were even more gorgeous than his smile, if that was possible. “I get that that’s outside the lines.”

She appreciated that. She really did—which was partly why she said she’d go. She wasn’t used to anyone putting her first, and the fact that he was willing to completely throw a wrench in everyone’s plans—for her—meant more to her than she was ready to admit. The other part, though, was that she wanted to be there for him. To be the one person who had no agenda whatsoever except to be there for Nate.

“But I can also stay here. I mean, maybe it’s not such a great idea for you to be seen with me so soon after Courtney.” She wasn’t an idiot. No matter how hard Nate tried, someone would get a picture of them together. She was a freaking trending topic, for heaven’s sake.

Her response did not make him happy. That was clear enough from the glare he was throwing her way. But just in case she didn’t get the hint, he added, “Courtney left me. I don’t give one iota of a fuck if people think it’s too soon. You’re the only one whose opinion on that matters.” He took a step away, his back to her as he paused for a minute before turning to face her again. “I know you don’t believe for a second that what

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