On the Way to Us by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks

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Lord, have mercy! What have I done? Jasmine panicked as she waited for his answer, but she was desperate for help. Thank goodness there was a lock on her bedroom door upstairs.

“Sure, why not? Do I pay for my dinner or am I on the clock?” Flint asked. “You aren’t going to ask me to wear an apron, are you?”

“Consider your meal as your sign-on bonus,” Jasmine said, “and aprons are optional.”

Four ladies came into the café and took a table in the back corner. Flint carried his dirty dishes to the kitchen and grabbed an order pad and a pen from a worktable. Jasmine had never had a male waitress (or should she call him a waiter?) but she’d bet that there would be an increase in business for the week with a sexy cowboy helping out.

She went back to the kitchen but stole glances at him through the serving window. When he stood up beside her, she had barely come to his shoulder, which would put him at over six feet tall. His dark-brown hair curled up on his shirt collar, and his mossy green eyes had little flecks of gold floating in them.

Now why would I notice that? Jasmine asked herself.

“Good afternoon, ladies,” Flint said as he pulled the pad and pen from the hip pocket of his tight-fitting Wranglers. “What can I get y’all to drink?”

“You’re Jasmine’s new help?” one of the gray-haired ladies asked.

“Yes, ma’am, for the next week,” he answered.

“We’ll all have sweet tea, two with lemon, two without. I’m Hetty,” she said. “This is my friend Lola, and these are my two cousins, Doris Anne and Mary Sue. They live down in Bowie. Those two old codgers over there belong to me and Lola, and don’t you believe a word they say.”

“They’re tryin’ to sell me a ranch south of town. They say it’s a good piece of property,” he said.

“That you can believe. They know ranchland a whole lot better than they know their wives.” Lola giggled at her own joke. “You’re not from around here, are you? Is that pickup out front with the Louisiana tags yours? You got a drawl that will make all the young women around these parts drool.”

“That’s my truck, and that’s where I’m from.” He smiled. “I’ll get your drinks while you decide what you want.” He pointed to the four menus stuck between the napkin holder and the ketchup and steak sauce bottles.

Jasmine’s hands shook as she rinsed the dirty dishes that had accumulated on the worktable and put them in the dishwasher.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Her best friend Pearl’s voice popped into her head.

“Flint looks like a decent fellow,” she whispered. “Amos and Elvis liked him well enough to want him to stick around, and they are pretty good at reading people.”

Her cell phone rang. She dried her hands and pulled it out of her apron pocket. “Were your ears burning?” she answered when she saw that it was Pearl calling.

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