Hot Hex Boyfriend by Carly Bloom

Author:Carly Bloom [BLOOM, CARLY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2024-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Once again, Delia sat at the kitchen table with her tablet and design book. The meeting with Misty had gone really well. They’d shared tea and chatted, and before long, Delia had understood exactly what Misty wanted. Initially, there had been an awful lot of talk about cats—Misty, after all, was carrying a cat clutch purse and wearing kitten heels—but eventually Delia had understood what it was that Misty loved about cats. They were sleek, smart, and yet incredibly warm and comforting.

Delia could create that environment easily. In less than fifteen minutes, she’d gathered a few examples of furnishings that evoked the feel of, well, a cat. And she’d done it without a single cat-shaped pillow.

Cozy Luxe was the style. The design called for muted colors with warm accents—minimalist, yet soft and fluffy. And it turned out the budget wasn’t small at all, and Misty wanted furnishings, art… the whole shebang.

She checked the time, and her tummy’s resident butterflies took flight when she realized she was supposed to be at Max’s in fifteen minutes for dinner.

She shook off the notion that it was anything other than a business dinner (hard to do with last night’s kiss still burning on her lips) and opened the file on her tablet for the Halifax Manor project. It was smart. It was logical. It was a perfectly reasonable staging design, and she was pretty sure Max would go for it.

Easy peasy.

And then she quietly clicked on the project she’d worked on this morning, the one called Dream Design, and sighed in bliss when it popped up.

She shouldn’t have spent so much time on it, and she’d probably never show it to Max. But it was good practice. Only it hadn’t felt like practice; it had felt like her freaking life’s work, and every moment had been a treasure.

She’d given herself permission to pretend Max was a client who wanted her to design the living spaces in Halifax Manor for him. Not so he could sell it but so he could live in it.

He traveled a lot, so he’d want a place that required little upkeep. But she also knew he’d need a place to actually come home to. A refuge. A hideaway for his studious, introverted self to be rejuvenated and nurtured. What she’d ended up with was a home that was distinctly masculine and simple—Max was a no-nonsense kind of guy—but also incredibly inviting.

She’d pretended she had carte blanche. And that meant a warm travertine marble in a soft, toasted ocher for the entryway. She could practically feel the sigh he’d make as soon as he set foot on it—finally home from some exotic place. He’d kick off his shoes and drop his bags before heading to the kitchen for a warm cup of tea. And the kitchen! Good Lord, she’d replaced that nasty tile on the countertops with more marble, except for the island, which she’d topped with red oak butcher-block wood. It would age beautifully. And in the bedroom—

The back door opened and slammed shut, and Grandma Maddie came in carrying bags of groceries.

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