The Bridesmaid (Brides of Beaufort Book 3) by Jess Mastorakos

Author:Jess Mastorakos [Mastorakos, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

15

LAYLA

Monday at school, I could barely make it through my classes without checking my phone. But I did, because despite being as hyped up on love as some of my teenage students, I was still a professional. The moment the bell rang, however? Boom. Straight for my phone in the desk drawer, eager to continue our text conversation until the new class started.

Zac: Chicken parm.

I grinned down at my phone. Right before my last class, he’d told me about his newfound interest in cooking, and I’d asked him what Grayson’s favorite meal was.

Me: Ooh, he’s a boy after my own heart. I love chicken parm. You’ll have to make it for me one night.

Zac: I will. Gray will be pumped. He says he’d eat it every night if I let him, but I need a little more variety.

I chuckled as I sat in my desk chair, propping my feet up on my desk. It was so interesting to me that Zac had taken up cooking. He’d never bothered with it before, apparently because he was a single dude who spent long shifts in a police cruiser eating fast food. I remembered that he tried to be healthy about it whenever he could because he still had to maintain such strict physical fitness standards, but with a job like his, sometimes there simply wasn’t time.

Once he’d gotten Grayson, though, Zac said he’d needed to pay a lot more attention to ingredients thanks to his son’s severe peanut and tree nut allergy. That led him to care more about what he was putting in his own body, which drove him to learn how to cook. He’d been surprised to find that he really enjoyed it, too, and that only made me swoon harder. There was something about a man who could cook that spoke to me. Must be my Italian roots.

Zac: Sorry, just got a call. Talk later.

I frowned down at my phone. This was my free period, and I’d been excited to have more time to text with him. I was as bad as my students. If I had a mirror in front of me right now, I’d probably look like one, too, all broody and stuff.

Me: Okay, be safe.

Zac: Always.

I put my phone down with a sigh, leaning my head on the back of my chair. It wasn’t like I expected him to have time to text with me all day while he was working. I vividly remembered our conversations stalling whenever he got a call, and then I’d hold my breath until he popped back up again afterward. When it came to dating an MP, it felt exactly the same now as it had back then. Nerve-racking.

Sure, the military bases in South Carolina were relatively chill. He’d said Yuma was a lot rougher because there wasn’t much to do in the small Arizona town, and with boredom came an uptick of crime. Plus, being in close proximity to Mexico, they’d gotten a lot more drug calls out there. And with those came more domestic violence calls.

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