His Secret Starlight Baby by Michelle Major

Author:Michelle Major
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-12-01T18:13:14+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The Friday lunch crowd at the bar was the biggest Jordan had ever seen, although he took little comfort in it. Not with the black mood he’d woken to earlier after a night of tossing and turning and wishing Cory was in his bed and not the guest bedroom down the hall.

He should be thrilled about his full bar. Ever since Madison had started offering a Friday special of fish tacos on the menu, Trophy Room had been slammed from the moment he opened the doors.

There was no denying her expertise with the tacos. The fish, which she had delivered each week from Seattle, was served with a beer-batter coating that she fried to a golden brown and a tender, flaky inside. She accompanied the fish with a homemade slaw and pico de gallo and served the mixture on tortillas made fresh each week by a local woman in town. The bar smelled delicious. Laughter and conversation rang out through the room. When he’d bought the bar, Trophy Room had a been a redneck watering hole that was lucky to have a half dozen customers a night.

He’d transformed the business into something vibrant, a pub he could take pride in that was also part of the community. He’d made this place his home, and it would continue to be no matter what happened with Cory. So why was it so hard to get over her ease in walking away from his bed?

Jordan hadn’t lied when he told her that she was the first woman he’d shared it with, but that didn’t mean he’d been a monk since moving to Starlight. He preferred the term discerning. He dated casually, with women who understood he couldn’t offer them more than some mutually beneficial companionship.

Which should make Cory the perfect choice, since she loved to remind him that their arrangement was both temporary and pretend. Yet he couldn’t stop thinking about how right it felt to have her in his arms, distracted like he was some lovesick schoolboy. He’d messed up three drink orders in a row, which never happened.

Josh approached the bar after finishing lunch with Parker. The Johnson brothers were Friday regulars, always arriving well before noon since they knew that once the kitchen ran out of fresh fish, the tacos were gone until the following week.

“Have you swapped personalities with your chef?” he asked, arching a thick brow.

Jordan rolled his eyes as irritation filtered through him. Finally, an outlet for all his pent-up frustration. “What are you talking about and what did she do now? I told her that if she didn’t adjust her attitude—”

“She personally served our food with a genuine smile.” Josh held up a hand to stop Jordan’s out-of-character rant. “We even had what one might call a civil conversation. I was shocked.”

“Are you sure it was Madison?” Jordan glanced over his shoulder toward the kitchen. “Normally, the waitstaff doesn’t let her interact with customers. It’s ended badly more than once.”

“She brought me extra salsa.”

“I don’t believe it.

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