Just Maybe (Home In You Book 3) by Crystal Walton

Author:Crystal Walton [Walton, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Impact Editions, LLC
Published: 2017-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Storm

Cooper dragged a hand along his face after trimming his scruff. He rolled up his shirt cuffs, took one last glance in the bathroom mirror, and then flipped the lights.

It didn’t matter what he looked like. This wasn’t a date. Just a guy giving a girl a break from making dinner for the night. If he really wanted to get technical about it, Quinn was actually an employee.

Yeah, and when did employers ask their staff to dinner? Smart move, Anderson. He hadn’t exactly meant to ask her out. The question just sort of came out on its own.

Around the door to the nursery, Cooper stopped and grinned. Brayden was standing up in his crib, holding the railing.

“You ready to eat?”

“Eat.” He bounced up and down the closer Cooper neared. “I sweam!”

“Ice cream?” He laughed. “Wow. Loraine really did spoil you, didn’t she?”

Brayden extended both arms to him, and Cooper’s chest tightened at the open trust and acceptance Brayden offered him so easily.

Curbing his reaction, he hauled him out of the crib. “I’ll tell you what. You’ll get some ice cream if you help me get through dinner first. I need you on your game tonight, hoss. No letting me slip up and almost make a move like I did on the dock today. Deal?” He couldn’t afford to complicate things.

Brayden swung both hands over his mouth.

“Uh-huh. Don’t even act like you haven’t fallen for Quinn too. I saw you earlier, smacking that kiss on her chin.”

Brayden flung his hands away and blew his lips in a blubber sound.

Cooper laughed. “Yeah, well, let’s hope I at least didn’t look like that.”

He kicked his legs in excitement. “I sweam! I sweam!”

“You’re gonna be a lot of help, aren’t you?” Shaking his head, Cooper got him dressed and carried him into the hall.

Two steps into the living room, he halted at the sight of Quinn coming down the hall in the same outfit she had on the day she first arrived. She’d caused a double take then, but now, he couldn’t look away.

Long brown waves flowed over her shoulders and onto a cream blouse that shimmered in all the right places. She bent her leg behind her and adjusted her heel, the simple pose causing an unjustified spike in his pulse.

Brayden squirmed in Cooper’s arms, obviously wanting Quinn.

She turned and smiled at him. “Look at you in your cute polo.” She smoothed her hands down her skirt and met Cooper’s gaze. “I wasn’t sure what to wear. Is this too much?”

For him? Right now? Maybe. “You’re perfect.”

The implication behind those two words zinged inside him like a pinball. He started forward to hide it. Surely, movement would help.

Fat chance.

Brayden practically soared from his arms in an attempt to settle into hers, and whatever acrobats his insides were doing, seeing his son’s affection for Quinn upped the intensity tenfold.

What was his problem tonight? Nothing had changed. So, they’d almost kissed. And something in him came alive while watching her thrive on the WaveRunner. And the way she viewed him—believed in him—left him more than a little undone.

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