Second Fiddle Flirt (Cajun Two-Step Novellas Book 1) by Leigh Landry

Author:Leigh Landry [Landry, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Leigh Landry
Published: 2017-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

By lunch-time, Tyler and Lauren had bagged every single piece of Brandy’s clothing. He was glad they got through it all so quickly, because he knew it would give her more time to practice. Selfishly, though, he wished it could have taken a little longer.

He really enjoyed hanging out with her, despite the shitty reason they were together at the moment. And he enjoyed teasing her to stay on task. She was as easily distracted as he remembered, and part of him wanted to follow her down every little detour her brain came up with. But five years in the army had trained him to stay focused until their goal was finished.

“Well, I guess that’s it.” He put the last bag in the back of his truck and looked at Lauren staring up shyly at him. He wanted to kiss her, but a kiss goodbye felt weirdly intimate.

Should he wave? Shake her hand? Take her back inside and stick around this time until they were both naked and…

Nope.

He took her hand and lifted it. While holding her gaze, he kissed her open palm. He held his lips against her cold skin, then wrapped both of his hands around hers to warm them. “Good luck with your rehearsal.”

He wished like hell he could read her mind, because he could see a million thoughts racing behind her eyes.

“Thanks.”

“Call me when you’re done? Tell me the good news?”

“I can call you with the news. I can’t promise it’ll be good.”

He kissed her hand again, his whole body springing alive again with a deep, aching need for her, then released it. “I’m sure it will.”

He walked around to the driver’s side and waved to Lauren as he backed out of the driveway. His own brain ran a million miles an hour while he drove toward the charity drop-off.

He hoped she’d call him. Tyler had no doubt she’d do well in her audition, so he wasn’t worried about that. It was more that he had so much left he wanted to tell her.

Helping her clear out Brandy’s things had been exactly what he needed. It was hard. And sad. But it was also nice to talk about Brandy. To laugh about shared memories with someone. To let it sink in with every piece of clothing they folded that Brandy wasn’t ever going to wear those things again. That she was really gone. And Lauren was the one person in his life who understood how much that fucking sucked.

Getting that closure did more than help him grieve and move on though. It also made room for something else. Something Tyler had been pushing aside and ignoring for years.

Something he couldn’t wait to finally confess.

* * * * *

Robin’s Acadian-style house sat way back off the road at the end of a long gravel driveway in Arnaudville, about thirty minutes north of Lafayette. The property looked like it was over an acre, if not two, and was surrounded by fields and woods on three sides.

It might

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