For Love of a Grump: A Grumpy Soft for Sunshine Collection by Kait Nolan

Author:Kait Nolan [Nolan, Kait]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Take The Leap Publishing
Published: 2024-05-16T18:30:00+00:00

TEN

On the Friday before Memorial Day, the long, wooded drive down to The Misfit Inn was already lined with vehicles. People were headed toward the house with coolers hauled between them, camp chairs over shoulders, and picnic blankets tucked under arms. Logan could already hear the musicians tuning up out back for the inaugural performance of the season. For something that had been impromptu entertainment last summer during Flynn’s initial stay, Jam Night had become The Place To Be on Friday night in Eden’s Ridge as soon as the evenings turned warm. Local musicians from near and far gathered together for a few hours of improvised music, and the townsfolk and guests made a party of it. Logan had enjoyed the hell out of the ones he’d attended.

But as he made his way down the crushed-gravel drive, unfamiliar nerves skated over his skin, like that time during his sophomore year of high school, when he showed up at Homecoming with Anna Beth Alton in the wake of her dumping the most popular guy in their class. Stupid to feel that mix of excitement and dread, but there it was. The wondering how everybody would react. Because he was with Athena now. Except, he’d promised to roll with the casual, and he had no idea what she’d told her family about them or how he was supposed to treat her in public.

Circling around to the grassy space behind the house and spa, where the stage had been set up—really just strands of cafe lights strung up in rows over the patch of lawn where the musicians had clustered their own chairs—he looked for his woman.

His woman. He liked the sound of that a helluva lot. He wondered if Athena went for a little caveman possessiveness.

Flynn caught his eye and lifted a hand in a wave. Logan jerked his head in acknowledgment, but continued to scan the clusters of people, searching for Athena. Not finding her, he headed into the house.

She was, of course, in the kitchen, her hair put up in one of those messy buns. He wanted to kiss her nape, watch her shiver before taking all that tawny hair down and losing his hands in it. But there were people everywhere, including a huge chunk of her family.

“Now don’t get mad.” Kennedy held up her hands in peace.

Uh oh. Logan quietly shut the door behind him, so as not to interrupt.

Athena glanced his way before turning her attention back to her sister, arms crossed. “You realize that prefacing anything with that statement automatically primes me to do exactly that, right?”

“It’s a good thing,” Kennedy promised.

Athena just narrowed her eyes and waited. Logan edged his way around the kitchen toward her, ready to intervene or mediate should the need arise.

“It’s just that Celeste and I put together a website advertising the cooking school.”

“And?”

“Well, we attached it to the inn’s website and the chamber of commerce. It just went live day before yesterday.”

“Like we talked about. Again, not seeing what it is I’m not supposed to get mad about.

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