Whiskey Sour by Jen Talty

Author:Jen Talty [Talty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jupiter Press
Published: 2020-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

5

Paget stood in the middle of her living room with her hands on her hips. She let out a long breath.

“Are you going to be okay?” Annette plopped herself down on the sofa next to a stack of boxes.

Paget couldn’t decide if she was pleased at how few things she had accumulated in the short amount of time she’d lived in the cabin, or depressed at how easily someone else was willing to buy all her furnishings.

“It’s all surreal.” Paget sat in her favorite lounge chair and put her feet up one last time. She still had a little over two weeks before she had to be out, but since her father had been moved to the short-term facility and they told her he’d be coming home in at least three weeks, if not sooner, she figured the quicker she took care of this, the better off she’d be. “How are you feeling?”

“Fine.” Annette patted her belly. “I don’t feel sick and haven’t gained a pound yet.”

“It will catch up to you if you keep boasting like that.” Cheyenne came down the stairs from the loft carrying two boxes.

“I don’t know about that,” Annette said. “With Tony, I never had morning sickness and I didn’t start showing until I was close to six months.”

“You’re lucky.” Cheyenne set the boxes next to the rest of them. “I was as big as a house and looked like I was ready to pop at six months. And you should see my stomach. It looks like a map to all the local streams.”

Paget covered her mouth. “I’m sorry. But that’s really funny.”

Cheyenne took her braid and fiddled with the end. “You laugh now, but someday, you might end up with a bun in the oven.”

“I’d have to have, at the very least, a prospect for a husband,” Paget said.

“Oh, and Steven isn’t your knight in shining armor?” Annette’s question was said tongue in cheek.

“He’s not the only man sniffing around the lady.” Cheyenne leaned against the railing. “Boone’s been showing some serious interest.”

Paget’s face heated. While they hadn’t had sex but that one night, there had been some heavy petting sessions, and he had taken tonight off, other than checking in on the place as he did overnight. Otherwise, he made it clear, he was all hers for the entire night, and he hinted he planned on having a repeat of their last encounter.

It had been all he could talk about for the last twenty-four hours, and it made her body tingle.

“Boone is just a friend. A good one at that,” Paget said.

“Come on. You have the hots for him and don’t lie.” Cheyenne twirled the stray ends from her long braid. “He’s at your dad’s house every night or visiting your dad. Everyone in town is talking about how they think the two of you are dating. Are you going to tell us you haven’t even kissed him?”

“I’ve got five bucks that says they’ve done more than kiss,” Annette said.

“You two are horrible.”

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