From Best Friend to Daddy by Jules Bennett

Author:Jules Bennett [Bennett, Jules]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-11T14:20:25+00:00

Chapter Ten

Gray finished pulling the wood chairs off the tabletops. He still needed to complete the invoice for next week’s beer order and return a call to a new vendor before they opened in two hours.

Owning a bar wasn’t just mixing drinks and writing paychecks. There was so much more that went into it, but he’d done it so long—hell, he’d grown up here—he pretty much did everything on autopilot.

Is that how he wanted to spend the rest of his life? Doing the same thing day in and day out? How could a thirty-one-year-old man not have a clue what he wanted to do with his life?

The tempting business proposal from the random stranger still weighed heavily on him and kept him awake at night.

Granted, the looming deadline wasn’t the only thing keeping him awake. A raven-haired vixen posing as his best friend had him questioning everything he’d ever thought to be a truth.

Gray set the last chair on the floor and turned to head toward his office. The old black-and-white picture hanging behind the bar stopped him. He’d seen that picture countless times, passed it constantly, but the image of his grandfather standing in his army uniform outside the bar on the day he bought it seemed to hit home this time.

The back door opened and slammed shut. Only a handful of people used the back door. A sliver of hope hit him as he stared at the doorway to the hall, thinking he’d see Kate step through.

But when his father rounded the corner, Gray smiled, hating how disappointment over not seeing Kate had been his first reaction.

She’d retreated again after their trip. Her pattern shouldn’t surprise him, but it did. Whatever she was afraid of, he could battle it. Seriously. Did she not think all of this was freaking him out a little, as well? But there was no way in hell he was just going to ignore this pull toward her. He knew without a doubt that she was being pulled just as fiercely.

“Want a beer?” Gray asked as he circled the bar.

Reece Gallagher went to the opposite side of the bar and took a seat on one of the stools. “You know what I like.”

Gray smiled as he reached for a frosted mug and flipped the tap of his father’s favorite brew. He tipped the mug enough to keep the head of the beer just right. Another thing he simply did without thinking.

He’d been meaning to call his dad, but now that he was here, there was no better time to discuss the future of Gallagher’s.

Gray set the beer in front of his dad, the frothy top spilling over. He pulled a rag from below the counter and swiped up the moisture.

“Had a visitor the other day,” he told his dad.

“Oh, yeah?” Reece took a hearty drink of his beer before setting the mug back on the bar. “Something tells me there’s more to the story.”

“He offered me more money than I’d know what to do with if I sell him this bar.

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