The Face-Off by Brenda Rothert
Author:Brenda Rothert [Rothert, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Chapter Twelve
Tess
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âHowâs the coconut cream pie?â a customer asks me, looking over from the menu.
âIâve never heard a complaint. The owner makes them fresh every morning.â
She nods and closes the menu. âIâm going with the cheese fries and a piece of that pie. Itâs been a day.â
âIâm sorry.â I give her a sympathetic look. âIâll bring you some more sweet tea, too.â
âThanks.â
She opens a paperback and starts reading. I love it when women come here alone and spend time reading, working crosswords or texting with a friend. Weâre conditioned to be with people all the time, and thereâs often no time left to just be by ourselves.
Cam and I are on different sleep schedules; sheâs always up studying until around eleven and I go to bed around nine thirty because my five a.m. wake-up time is no joke. In theory, I could read or watch a show before falling asleep, but Iâm usually too tired.
âWeâre out of chili,â Deb says as I walk behind the counter, a coffeepot in one of her hands and a piece of pie in the other.
âAlready?â
She scowls. âDonât get me started. The new girl burned up an entire batch. Ruined the pan and the chili.â
Shaking my head, I put my orders in the queue, get my customer another sweet tea and greet the table of four men in suits who just sat down in my section.
âWhat can I get you to drink?â
One of them stares directly at my breasts as the others order. The guy next to him nudges his shoulder when itâs his turn.
âOh, uh...lemonade, I guess.â
Inwardly, I roll my eyes. Iâm wearing a black V-neck shirt that isnât even all that revealing. But men are men, so whoâs surprised?
Iâm trying hard to be cautious about Dom, but it was a lot easier before that kiss. Before, he was someone teaching my son a few things and we were all on friendly terms. Something shifted for me, though, and if Iâm being honest, it wasnât when he asked me out but when he fixed my toilet emergency.
He didnât have to do that. He didnât have to call in help from his teammates and save my bathroom floor when I was about to melt down, but he did. It was the first time anyone other than me or Cam has solved a problem in our household.
He got us a new screen door and fixed our dryer, too. Iâve never been a woman who wanted to be wined and dined, but a man who jumps in to help me with actual, everyday problems without being asked? I canât deny how sexy that is to me.
Because of him, weâre no longer hanging laundry for six people on makeshift clotheslines. That means more to me than any fancy dinner date ever could.
âExcuse me, maâam?â
I shift my focus from thoughts of Dom to the customer calling out to me as I pass her table. Itâs not one of mine, but I still go back to see what she needs.
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