Second Chance Spring by Delancey Stewart

Author:Delancey Stewart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Delancey Stewart

Dinner with Lurch

Cormac

April and Callan essentially set us up.

On a date.

I knew it, Paige knew it, and it was so obvious I was pretty certain that Frederick the kangaroo knew it.

The girls went to Callan’s house while Luke and Bobo stayed in Paige’s yard, thanks to the warming weather, and I went to pick up Paige at five o’clock. We were driving up to Washington to take the reservation Callan and April had managed to get at some swanky hotel restaurant that had just opened. As a couple, April and Cal seemed to always know about the next hot thing, in part because of his connection to soccer stars and hers to movie stars. Callan had renewed his connections to his old team, the South Bay Sharks, and April was working for Ryan McDonnell’s production company, so she rubbed elbows with celebrities all the time. If there was a power couple in Singletree, they were probably it.

“Hi,” Paige said, opening her door just as I was about to knock.

Holy kangaroos. “Wow. Hi.” The dress Paige wore had stolen my capacity for anything beyond single-syllable words. It was a snug sweater dress, in a shade of pink that made her blue eyes glow like sapphires. It hugged her curves and the hem met the tops of the sexiest brown boots I’d ever seen—not that I knew a hell of a lot about fashion. But fuck if those boots weren’t giving me ideas about where else she might wear them. Her hair was soft around her face, hanging over her shoulders in waves, and she just radiated, standing there before me. “Um.”

Good, this was going so well.

“You look great,” she said, offering an example of words that would have been appropriate when put in sequence.

I can do this.

“Um.” Again? Fuck. “So do you. Like, phenomenally great.”

Better. Kind of.

“Are you ready to go?” I managed, wondering if I’d be capable of driving with her sitting next to me.

“I am,” she said, stepping out and then turning to lock the door. When she turned and leaned slightly forward, I got a view of her perfect ass in the clingy sweater dress, and I had to fight to keep my hands from reaching for her.

Why weren’t we dating, again?

Oh right. Because she was going to leave, and my family would definitely not survive another woman leaving us. Neither would my heart. And because I’d told her reflexively that it wasn’t the right time when it had first come up.

But fuck if my body didn’t think it might be worth the risk.

Dinner, Cormac. You’re only having dinner.

“Let’s go have dinner,” I said, as if to remind myself of what the plan was.

She smiled at me as we walked toward my car, and I pulled the door open for her, watching in fascination as she folded her tall lithe body into the passenger seat and smiled up at me again.

I could do this.

I shut her door, went to the other side, and soon we were cruising north.

“So tell me again why April gave up a reservation at Patank.

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