One Hundred Secrets by Collins Kelly

Author:Collins, Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Nook Press
Published: 2019-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Sidling up to the bar on a Monday evening was out of character for Tilden, but he’d missed his normal weekend visit because Goldie was working. He told himself it was because he didn’t want to distract her, but the truth was he couldn’t be there and watch the single men of Aspen Cove move in on what was not his, but somehow felt like his.

He’d had no business staking claim to her the last time when Baxter flirted and asked her out. All he was missing was a loincloth and a wooden club for his caveman persona.

The slap of a napkin and a mug of beer pulled him from his thoughts.

“Thanks, man.” He took the first sip and savored the bitterness of the hops.

“Not your normal night. You hiding?” Cannon reached under the bar and brought out a bowl and a container of bar snacks. He poured a healthy serving and set them in front of him.

“Who would I be hiding from?” Tilden picked out the spicy peanuts and lined them up. When they were gone, he separated the round crackers from the square crackers.

“Tall blonde with eyes the color of whiskey, a smart mouth, and a phone that never gets a rest?”

“Don’t know her.” He smiled as he popped a few crackers into his mouth and washed them down with a long draw of beer.

“You’d be the only man in town who doesn’t. She’s like a bee and every guy within a ten-mile radius is a flower hoping to be pollinated.”

“What? Who’s Goldie trying to pollinate?”

Cannon chuckled. “Don’t know the woman sleeping in your bed, huh?”

“She isn’t sleeping with me. That kind of intimacy requires more information. All I’m saying is I don’t care what she does.”

He wiped the bar down and came back to stand in front of him.

“How hard is it to lie to yourself?”

He raised a brow. “I don’t know, Cannon. You tell me.” He rearranged the crackers so they alternated between round and square in a single row.

“Because I did it, that makes me an expert and from where I stand, I’m seeing something a lot different than what you’re selling.”

A group of guys came in and took the corner table.

Tilden didn’t know them but knew of them. They had finished Luke and Riley’s house on the beach and were back in town to pick up their equipment. If he’d had the money, he would have hired Cooper Brothers’ construction too. They could erect a greenhouse in record time. The only thing green in Tilden’s life was his streak of jealousy. It was ridiculous how Goldie could spin him up.

Just listening to her breathe at night made him hard. He hadn’t even taken hot showers the last week because the ice-cold water was the only thing that could turn his mind and body away from the damn kiss they’d shared. A kiss that shouldn’t have left him wanting more.

It was supposed to shut her up. That was its only purpose. He wasn’t ready to tell her his secrets.

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