So Irresistible by Lisa Plumley

Author:Lisa Plumley [Plumley, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Long after closing time at Campania, Gabriella stood in the semidarkened dining room, remembering the chaotic night she’d just had. Her throat ached from shouting orders at the expo; her arms were sore from helping deliver pizzas to the hordes of regulars who’d shown up after being called to the pizzeria’s first-ever official customer appreciation night.

She still couldn’t believe her strategy had worked.

Prompted by phone calls from her and Pinkie, outraged by the media coverage that had taken the city by storm, Portlanders had shown up in droves to support Campania. They’d formed a line on the dinky sidewalk outside. They’d endured lengthy waits. They’d Tweeted their indignation at the online slam attack against one of their city’s most beloved pizzerias. A few of them had even brought picket signs in favor of Campania.

Even now, a car drove past outside, its driver honking to show support. Gabriella guessed that meant the handmade HONK IF YOU ♥ CAMPANIA! sign propped up near the window was still there.

Into the dimness, Shane meandered closer, his face weary in the combined glow of the streetlights coming through the window and the emergency lighting that Gabriella always left on.

They lent just enough brightness to see that Shane still looked as delectable as ever. Big. Broad-shouldered. Handsome. He smiled as he joined her at booth number six. Everyone else was gone. That meant no one else saw Shane slip his hand companionably in hers, then pull her against his shoulder.

Leaning into his support, Gabriella sighed. It felt so good to have Shane’s company, his confidence, his faith in her. Even now, when she’d regained the support of her crew, she needed that. She needed him. Shane was unlike anyone else she knew.

Maybe that was because he was sabotaging her pizzeria.

No, Gabriella told herself. It was too late for doubt. Too late for mistrust. For tonight, at least, she couldn’t do much to uncover Shane’s potential sabotage. All she could do was what she’d been doing—try to stick close to him, to watch him, to catch him (if she could) in the act of doing something wrong.

The funny thing was, suspecting him felt a lot like dating him. She felt the same rush of danger in Shane’s arms as she had leaving the brewpub with him on their first night together. She still wanted him. But she couldn’t lose herself in him.

It was a tricky line to walk. Ever since their encounter at the waterfront park, Gabriella had been trying to stay in control. She’d won her victory key to Shane’s apartment but hadn’t found the nerve to use it yet. She’d gone against her own rules and assigned Shane to the mushroom-chopping station, too.

She knew he believed that his campaign against the rules had worked—that she’d sidestepped them to keep him near her.

That was true, to a point. She’d done it to keep an eye on him. Because she’d realized, too late, that allowing Shane free access to the pizzeria’s storeroom, walk-in, and office areas while she was busy elsewhere was synonymous with inviting him to snoop on her.

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