Rules of the Game by Lori Wilde

Author:Lori Wilde [Wilde, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, General
ISBN: 9780062311283
Google: BLLdoQEACAAJ
Amazon: B00N80T1VI
Barnesnoble: B00N80T1VI
Goodreads: 23173047
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 2015-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Jodi Carlyle’s Wedding Crasher Rules: Don’t get too

attached to anyone you pick up at a wedding.

Jodi brought a basket of the leftover homemade banana nut muffins that she put out for the B&B guests, and a brown earthenware crock of creamy butter from the Stardust Dairy, when she arrived at Timeless Treasures that morning.

The antique store didn’t open until ten, but the Honeysuckle Café, located in the back of the building, opened for breakfast at six. The café, which was technically a tearoom despite the diner name, was famous in Marion County. It had even been written up with glowing reviews in Texas Monthly. The owner and operator, Atlanta Johnson, was her mother’s best friend since grade school.

Going around to the side entrance where customers were lined up to get into the café, the air rife with the aroma of breakfast tacos, Jodi paused to greet friends and acquaintances before heading into the antique store through the back way. The sloped old wooden floor creaked beneath her weight, and the familiar musty scent of antiques hugged her like an old friend. She skimmed down aisles crowded with furniture and knickknacks, objets d’art and collectibles, crafts and vintage clothing.

She caught sight of her family grouped around the checkout counter. Mom, Dad, Suki, and Breeanne, who, now that she had finished ghostwriting Rowdy’s autobiography, had gone back to working at the upstairs bookstore, Bound to Please. But all that would change once she was Mrs. Rowdy Blanton and baseball season started. She’d be living in Dallas with her new husband and starting a new book. For a moment, Jodi felt a little sad about that, it was the end of an era. But she shook off the mood and waved with a happy smile.

“How are you this morning?” Suki asked, a sly grin on her face.

“Fine.” Jodi shot her a hold-your-tongue look. “You?”

“No complaints.”

“Are those banana nut muffins?” Dad asked.

“Yep.” Jodi set the basket of muffins and the crock of butter on the counter.

“Are we being bribed?” Suki asked suspiciously.

“I can’t bring my family muffins without an ulterior motive?” Jodi leaned against the counter and did her best to appear as if she didn’t have an agenda.

“Hmph,” Suki said, but plucked a muffin from the basket. “I don’t trust Trojan muffins. If you know what I mean.”

“I sense subtext here,” Mom said. “What’s going on with you two?”

From the corner of her eye, Jodi saw a shadow move from the second floor balcony. “Incoming,” she warned.

Everyone took a collective jump back as Callie, the calico Suki had rescued during Hurricane Sandy when she was a student at NYU, dropped down from the balcony overhead to the checkout counter.

Callie glanced around, a displeased expression on her face that said, Dammit, you people are catching on to my ways. The calico loved pouncing on unsuspecting victims and was known to pout when she didn’t pull off an ambush. The left half of Callie’s face was solid black, the right half orange. Her chin and chest were fluffy white, while her left forearm was orange and her right forearm was black.

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