Sweet Spot by Kate Angell

Author:Kate Angell [Angell, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780758269188
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Amazon: 0758269188
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Goodreads: 7803147
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2009-12-31T11:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“You’re a dumb-ass, Brody.” James Lawless caught up with his teammate at Duffy’s Diner, sulking over his plate of cold mac ’n cheese. “Stop staring at the waitress like you’ve just seen a ghost.”

“I damn sure have.”

“What?” Law asked, not understanding.

“I’m engaged to her.” It was hard for Brody to say.

Brody Jones ignored the stunned look on his teammate’s face. Ignored it good. No doubt that was the last thing Law had expected to hear when his buddy sat down next to him in the booth with the bright red leather and shiny black tabletop. The slick ’50s burger joint with its hand-mixed shakes and deep-fried onion rings was his diner. He was so fuckin’ ticked he couldn’t force down a bite of food.

All because of Mary Blanchard. She’d shown up, looking like homemade apple pie with a sweet caramel glaze. He’d avoided such pie for a very long time now. Memories of apple pie belonged in Plain, West Virginia, not in Richmond. Shit.

Law stared hard at Brody from across the table. “I don’t believe you. She’s cute, but definitely not your type.”

“She damn sure isn’t. That’s the problem.”

Brody continued to track the brunette with the big blue eyes as if she were in the crosshairs of his rifle. He couldn’t help it. He was one angry son of a bitch, and given the tension in his body, he was about to put his fist through a wall.

He would have if Law hadn’t decided to park his ass across from him.

“Has she seen you?” Law asked.

“Not yet. I ordered and was served before she started her shift. She’s working the table section; we’re in the back booth.”

“You’re hard to miss, Brody.”

“She hasn’t looked beyond her station.”

“Drink your ice water.” Law pushed the glass toward him.

“I need more than that to cool me down.”

“Talk to me,” Law pressed. “Why are you so damn angry?”

“I told her not to come to Richmond,” Brody growled. “She didn’t fuckin’ listen to me.”

How could he explain to Law that the pink-cheeked waitress with the baby-doll eyes had once been his high school sweetheart? Later, his fiancée.

“Mary’s a nice girl,” he told Law. Too damn nice. Brody wasn’t looking for sweet and smiling or a continued engagement. He’d just never gotten around to telling her that.

How could he? She hadn’t let him. She’d been quick in telling his mom and the entire town that they were getting married. Word had spread over Plain like a town banner.

He’d given her a ring soon after making it with her in the backseat of his van on graduation night. He’d left Plain two weeks later on an athletic scholarship to the University of Michigan.

Mary had hugged him and cried soft tears, already missing him before he’d even gotten past her driveway. She’d made him promise to visit often.

Sucked in by sex, he’d agreed.

Yet once he’d hit the city limits, he’d never looked back. He’d made a whopper of a mistake. The consequences of a single mattress wedged in the back of his van and a date willing to have sex had come back to haunt him now.

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