The Older Man Plan (Coble Coffee, #1) by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: age gap
Publisher: Noelle Adams
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

RICK WAS USUALLY A relaxed, even-tempered person who could control his mind and control his actions and control his words. He liked his daily life to be organized and without extremes. That allowed him to observe deeply and understand the workings of the world around him. It was what made him good at writing and allowed his mind to remain calm and therefore free to engage in the stories he created.

He’d lived a long time with that kind of circumstantial peace. Even his previous relationships didn’t take up a lot of his emotional bandwidth.

But all of that had changed with Vivian, and he couldn’t seem to change it back.

He’d made an absolute fool of himself on the sidewalk with Vivian the other day. He felt like cringing every time he remembered it—and he couldn’t keep from replaying it repeatedly in his mind. She’d seen beneath the surface to what he’d always tried to hide. And although he’d covered it as well as he could, he wasn’t convinced she didn’t suspect now that he had an interest in her far beyond what he’d indicated before.

Which would be fine. Which would be no problem. Were she interested in him too.

But she wasn’t. She’d apparently hooked up with Tim Grueber, and the pairing was lasting a lot longer than he’d expected.

He’d thought they’d go out once. Vivian would find him nice but kind of dull. Then she’d move on to someone else, as was her habit for the past few months. But she hadn’t done it yet.

Today was Saturday, but he was behind on his self-imposed deadlines, so he had to work most of the day today to catch up. Fortunately, Vivian had already been in for about twenty minutes this morning. She’d come over to his table and chatted for a little while, looking bright and friendly and warm and pretty and like everything he wanted. To his relief, he’d managed to keep his composure, and he was relieved that she probably wouldn’t be around much more today.

She usually had other things to do on Saturdays, so he’d have a respite from seeing her and pining after her like a besotted teenager.

By three o’clock, he’d gotten a lot of words down and had enough momentum for at least another hour of writing. He knew exactly what needed to happen in this scene, so he didn’t have to kill time figuring out what the characters were going to do next.

Focused on the words that were flowing from his mind to his fingers to his keyboard, he didn’t even notice immediately when someone new came into the coffee shop.

His brain vaguely processed that it was a couple. A man and a woman. And they made their way to the counter to put in their orders. But he didn’t look up to identify any details about them.

They didn’t matter to him, after all. All that mattered right now was getting these words down and finishing this chapter.

So he was completely oblivious of who had walked in until they’d picked up their coffee drinks and walked over to his table.

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