Harlequin Desire October 2019--Box Set 1 of 2 by Yvonne Lindsay

Author:Yvonne Lindsay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“He had no idea who you were?” Hayden leaned closer to Drew at the tightly packed bar.

When they’d first stepped into the Churchill, she’d been agape with wonder. The outside of the building was draped with Christmas trees. “Eighty of them and eighteen thousand fairy lights,” Reid had shared. From that point on, the place had fascinated her.

Hanging from the ceiling were numerous beaten-copper pots, pans and lights, and at one point she spotted a guitar case and even an accordion. As its name suggested, the Churchill was dripping with memorabilia, in memory of the man after which it was named. The walls were wooden and dotted with framed photos and paintings, the tables and chairs well worn from plenty of use.

“There’s no better place to be than Church on Christmas Eve,” Reid had told Tate, looping a brotherly arm around his neck as he’d dragged him inside.

Hayden was ridiculously happy for Tate. He had a fun, boisterous, lovable family. She could see clearly that his mother had wanted to accompany him out tonight only to be close to him awhile longer. And who could blame her? The woman had gone decades believing her other son was deceased. In the end George had wrangled Jane in, encouraging her to “let the lads and lasses have their fun.”

Drew circled the straws in her club soda with lime before confirming Hayden’s question. “Reid had no clue it was me.”

“Then what?” Hayden was on the edge of her seat hearing how Drew and Reid had bumped into each other at a work conference. She stirred her own club soda with lime, content with the mocktail and Drew’s company. She listened intently as Drew told her about the huge crush she’d had on Reid when she was sixteen years old and how running into him again was her very narrow window to properly seduce him.

“So I’m lying in his hotel room bed fast asleep and he does this—” Drew snapped her fingers in Hayden’s face “—and literally scolds me for not telling him who I was!”

Hayden laughed. It’d be a story for the grandkids, without a doubt… An edited version, but still.

Drew was beaming, glowing. Even though half her story was shouted so as to be heard over a rowdy group of lads chugging down their ciders and ales.

The patrons of Churchill had worn their Christmas finery. For most of the ladies, sparkly dresses—one lass wore an elf costume—and the guys, including Reid and Tate, wore funny hats. Reid, a court jester hat and he’d talked Tate into the one shaped like a giant pint of ale.

“He’s doing well, Tate,” Drew pulled her eyes away from their guys to say. “I’ve been trying not to watch him with George and Jane, but it’s so beautiful to see them together. And when Reid joins the mix…” Her eyelashes fluttered. “Sorry. Hormones.”

“You don’t have to explain. I’ve felt that same sort of emotion being around them. Tate’s doing amazingly well.”

“I remember the first time I had that look in my eye.

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