RomeAntically Challenged by Marina Adair

Author:Marina Adair [Adair, Marina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781496727695
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2020-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“I can’t believe she lied to me!”

It was the first thing Emmitt said after folding himself into Annie’s car. She’d barely had time to say goodbye to her friends before he started ushering her out the door. Beckett gave her the Go for it thumbs-up while Lynn was mouthing “Zac Efron tattoo.”

At least she’d make one of them proud.

“In my experience, teen girls lie when they don’t feel as if they have options,” Annie said.

“That girl has more options than a drive-thru menu,” he said. “I don’t know about Curly or Moe back there, but I’ve made it clear she can come to me about anything.”

She cut Emmitt a glance. “Even if it’s about a cute boy?”

“Yes.” He seemed absolute in his answer, but moments later added, “A cute boy? Absolutely. Some tool who’s old enough to shave and is looking to ‘Netflix and chill’ with my kid? No conversation needed. It’s a hard no.”

Yikes! That was a pretty extreme answer to a very benign question. She could only hope he hadn’t reacted this way with Paisley. If he had, it explained a lot.

“Let me guess, Sammy is the tool in question?”

“Fuck.” He hit the dash. “I know I sound like some naive parent, and I know I said I had this handled, but I really thought... no, I really believed she was being straight with me.” Emmitt ran a hand down his face. “How could I have not put this together sooner?” He patted his pants pockets, front then back. “Crap. I can’t remember where I put his address.”

He rechecked the front again before pulling out all kinds of napkins. Their roommate agreement he put on the dash. A bunch of receipts and gum wrappers. Those went on her floor. A business card with lipstick on it balanced on this thigh. Last, he pulled out a wadded-up piece of crepe paper.

“Here it is.” He punched the address into his phone and, lovely, they were being directed by what sounded like an Australian phone sex operator.

She motioned to a business card. “What’s that?”

He picked it up and studied it before slipping it into his pocket. “It’s from a woman I met at Paisley’s school.”

“Seriously, you’re using your kid to meet hookups.” Annie snatched the card and threw it out the window.

“First, I went to the school to be with my daughter. Second, Grace is on the dance committee and gave me her number. I didn’t even know she stuck it in here. And last, even if I had been into her, which I am not, Gray warned me off sleeping with the PTA moms.”

“You needed guidance in that?” Annie clicked on her blinker and turned toward the residential side of town, as the GPS instructed.

“God, that sounded awful,” he admitted.

“I was just giving you a hard time,” she said, and he chuckled. “So what exactly did Paisley say this afternoon?”

“We were at another dance committee meeting.” He glanced her way. “She comes bounding up all smiles and Please Dad, asking if she could go to a friend’s house.

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