Valentine's Day with the Guy Next Door: A Small Town Curvy Romance (Holiday Romance in Snowflake Falls Book 4) by Jessa Joy

Author:Jessa Joy [Joy, Jessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-08T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Julia

Valentine’s Day.

For a romantic like me, it should be a dream.

Except it’s more like a nightmare.

I’m working my butt off selling bunches of roses to every lovebird in Snowflake Falls. And my Dad is mad at me because apparently Roman had some kind of fight with Ty last night. I know what Ty is like, particularly after a few beers, so it doesn’t surprise me. But I have to say I’m a bit worried to hear Ty has a black eye. I didn’t put Roman down as the violent type.

My Dad’s got me to agree to having dinner with Mr Paris tonight in the town’s fanciest restaurant, Silver. I’m not sure how I’ve been talked into it; maybe hope that Mr Paris will invest in Snowflake, and also a hefty dollop of guilt about Ty’s black eye and my involvement with Roman against my family’s wishes.

Still, I can’t stop thinking about Roman.

It’s so busy in the shop that I can’t go for our usual balcony meet-up and I feel the loss of seeing Roman like an ache all day long. It’s like something is missing, an essential part of me, and it sets my defenses down. The more I try to concentrate on what I’m doing, the more I’m thinking about him.

His lips, his eyes, his broad shoulders. The way his rock hard cock pressed against me as we kissed. I stare into a haze of red roses, imagining being in bed with him, seeing him without his clothes on as we languorously twine our limbs together, kissing down his firm, muscular belly until I reach...

“Julia!” My mom is on high alert.

Valentine’s Day is stressful at the best of times and she’s been snappy all day. “Fill up the space in the window with some more roses - it looks bare now we’ve sold so many.”

Staring outside the window as I replace the empty vases with more flowers, I see Montag’s delivery has three trucks running back and forth. They’ve clearly taken on extra workers to cope with the demand. Since Mr Montag and my Dad fell out, we use another firm to do our floral deliveries, but they can be unreliable, which adds to my Mom’s stress. The other flower shop in Snowflake, The Carnation, is clearly doing a roaring trade.

No sign of Roman. Maybe he’s too busy to meet today too? I wish I had been thinking clearly enough to get his number. I was distracted by kissing him.

By the end of the working day I’m tired, covered in little scratches from rose thorns and not feeling romantic in any way whatsoever. I can’t believe I’ve agreed to have dinner with some guy who I don’t find attractive in the least - on Valentine’s Day. I guess I’ve been secretly hoping that Roman would show up at the door with some chocolates - I’m so over flowers now - and sweep me off my feet.

But that’s not going to happen.

First, my Mom would go ape at him if he even walked through the door.

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