Husband Skills by Cassie Mint

Author:Cassie Mint [Mint, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Cherry Publishing
Published: 2023-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

Kingston

Locking up alone with Dani has always been a special kind of torture, even long before things got complex between us. It’s… otherworldly, you know? Too tempting by far when it’s just the two of us in the whole bar, with starlight shining through the open windows and the doors propped open to coax in a breeze.

The dishwasher humming.

Her soft breaths.

Her shy smiles in my direction.

Those are new—but fuck, it’s hard to focus tonight. And I should get my numbers done, should finish all this endless goddamn admin that no one tells you to expect with running a business, but there’s only one thought pulsing in my brain right now and it’s this: Dani. Dani. Dani.

She really thought I dropped her? All because I kept my distance for a few days?

Wasn’t trying to put her off or hurt her feelings. Anything but. No: I figured here I am, her big, too-old, surly boss, and there she is. Too sweet for me by far. And it was kind of her to help me out with that practice date, but from the way she skittered away from me at the end of the night, I figured she’d had enough already.

When it comes to Dani, I swore to myself that I’d never, ever push. I’d never make her unhappy.

So I held back. Went back to being her boss and nothing more. But maybe I should’ve talked to her about it first—cleared the air.

Christ. This relationship stuff is worse than balancing the books.

“Did we do okay?” Dani asks, her soft voice drifting through the quiet. I jolt and look up, finding her wiping down a nearby table.

Another shy smile. She’s wearing those shorts and a baggy black t-shirt knotted at the waist, and as Dani bends forward to scrub, her t-shirt slips off her shoulder, revealing a delicate glimpse of collarbone.

Fuck.

What was the question?

“The bar,” Dani says, nodding at the spread of paper records beside my laptop. A pink flush creeps over her cheeks, but she doesn’t scuttle away this time. She keeps looking at me, hoping for an answer. Her hair’s half pulled back, half tumbling over her shoulders, and all glossy like a starry night sky. “Did we do okay today? The evening crowd seemed lively.”

Oh, they were lively alright. Hooting and hollering, singing along to the music and pushing chairs aside for a makeshift dance floor. We had six glasses smashed this evening, but the culprits kept buying rounds for the whole bar, so I ain’t complaining. Whiskey shots are pricier than glass.

“Yeah. We did okay.”

Dani nods and goes back to her cleaning, flipping the chairs and stacking them on top of the table before she moves on to the next lot. She hums a tune under her breath as she works, but it’s too quiet for me to make out.

“So what other husband skills do you need to work on?”

She asks me that when her back is turned, like she doesn’t want me to see her reaction. Dani’s bent over, scrubbing at a table, and her peachy little ass short circuits my brain.

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