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Between boot camp and two TOD’s in Iraq, my buddies Max,
Gavin and me have been through some serious hell. So the last thing I ever
expected was to find the biggest challenge of my life back home.
My girlfriend died. I couldn’t even attend her funeral, let
alone tell her goodbye or that I’m sorry I wasn’t there like I should’ve been.
But she left me a gift. The best and scariest one I could’ve
ever asked for. One I didn’t think I could handle…until the day I saw her tiny
blues looking up at me in that airport. Chloe.
Now here I am, raising my baby girl—with the help of my two
best friends. Things couldn’t be better. Until she walked into my life.
All I wanted was a nanny. Someone to take care of my girl
when I couldn’t. What I didn’t count on was Addison, the brown-eyed temptress
with a body of sin, and everything I didn’t need, but suddenly wanted.
Addison
He answered on the third ring. “Hey,
Gav. You busy?”
“Not Gav.”
My face warmed at the sound of
Collin’s voice.
“You there?”
“Um, yes. But I need to speak with
Gavin, please.” Keep breathing, keep calm. You’ve got this.
“But I need to talk to you
first.”
I clenched my teeth. “May I talk
to him, please?”
“Nope.”
I threw my head back against the
couch and groaned. “Why not?” If he was going to be short with his answers, I
would be short with my questions.
“Need to talk to you about
something first. Told you that.”
Could’ve sworn I heard the words Needs
to eat your pussy is more like it in the background, but
my mind was scrambling like the eggs I’d cooked for breakfast.
“Shut up, asshole,” Collin barked.
I spun a loose string around my
finger. “What did you just say to me?”
Total déjà vu.
The wind slapped against his
speaker. “Are you driving?” I unraveled the string from my finger and bounced
my knee. “Because in the State of Illinois, it’s illegal to drive and talk on a
cell phone unless it’s hands free.”
“Damn it, no. She’s putting that
shit in her mouth.” He grumbled something else, and the sound of baby giggles
tugged on my already floppy heartstrings.
I couldn’t help but smile as I
thought about Chloe. I’d only been around her twice, but I kind of missed the
little thing.
“Not driving. Just playin’ at the
park.”
Playing at the park. Why did the
image make me grin? Collin pushing Chloe in her swing, her little baby legs
bouncing up and down as he did.
“Why are you calling Gavin
anyway?”
“None of your business.” My smile
fell. “Can you just put him on?”
“I told you I needed to talk
first.”
I rolled my eyes. “Fine. Then
talk.”
“Gonna take you out tonight.”
Shock pulled me into an upright
position, and I stood so fast that a pile of clean towels fell to the floor.
“Um, take me out?” I scrambled to pick them up.
“Gonna apologize. Again. Buy you
food, return your sweater too. If you have plans, then cancel them.”
“Uh, no. Don’t think so.” At the
simple thought of seeing him again, my stomach clenched in both excitement and
unease. “You’re not going to pull that in-charge bullshit on me. And besides,
what makes you think I want to see you anyway?”
“You don’t wanna see me,
sweetheart?”
I slapped my hand over my eyes. Sweetheart?
Seriously? “No. I don’t want to see you, pumpkin. Not when
you got me fired from my job the other night with your ultimate-fight-club
thing.” I blew out a quick breath. “Besides, I just…can’t.”
“I need a better reason.”
“Are you serious right now?” What
was with this guy and his incessant need to be an asshole?
“Dead serious.” He laughed. “I’ll
be by your apartment at six to pick you up. Dress casual. Gonna take you to dinner,
and then we’re gonna talk. You’re going to get a free meal and an apology.
Can’t get much better than that, am I right?”
Heather Van Fleet is stay-at-home-mom turned book boyfriend
connoisseur. She’s a wife to her high school sweetheart, a mom to three little
girls, and in her spare time you can find her with her head buried in her
Kindle, guzzling down copious amounts of coffee.
Heather graduated from Black Hawk College in 2003 with an
associate degree and has been working in the publishing industry for over five
years. She is represented by Stacey Donaghy of Donaghy Literary.
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