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I frown. “No next time.”
“Yes. Next time.”
“But…” I swallow again. “I hate you.”
He gives me a full grin then. He leans in and kisses me before he steps back. “I hate you too, Badass.”
Then he turns and leaves.
And I’m left standing there alone in my house, feeling things for Tucker Hastings that Ihate.
Kind-of.
A little.
Not very much at all.
CHAPTER 26
Evan
“What exactly are we celebrating again?”I ask Christopher, amused.
I was a little leery when he suggested coming to Raw in Honeysuckle Harbor because this is Finley’s stomping ground. Her brother, Ford, owns this restaurant with his best friend, Harrison. Finley’s sisters work here. The odds of running into any or all of them are very high.
Which isn’t exactly a big deal.
But I don’t want Finley to think we’re attempting to interfere in her life.
We’ve already blurred the hell out of the lines between personal and professional. I don’t want her to think we’re trying to invade her hometown too.
“We are celebrating your impending job offer.” Christopher says as the hostess guides us to a table.
“I don’t even have the offer yet,” I protest. The interview with Sanders and McSweeney went well, as far as I could gauge, but I haven’t heard anything officially.
Trust Christopher to just assume I’ll get it. I have a healthy sense of self, but he really believes in me. It’s really damn nice tohave his constant support and encouragement, but this might be getting slightly ahead of ourselves.
“You’ll get the offer. Why wouldn’t you?” Christopher pulls my chair out at the table for me. “Now shut up and enjoy yourself.”
That makes me laugh. “Bossy as usual.”
His hand trails over my shoulder as he moves around to his own chair, accepting a menu from the hostess. When she hands one to me as well and leaves after her welcome speech, Christopher gives me a dirty smile.
“Maybe I want to get you drunk and take advantage of you.”
With planning this outing, I can’t tell if he’s trying to distract me or if he’s trying to remind me that we have a Finley problem.
Christopher told me Finley had a date last night with Tucker Hastings. On the one hand, I never saw that one coming. On the other hand, it made total sense given how caustic and abrasive she was around him.
That’s Finley speak for she’s hiding her true feelings.
Oh, I believe that she hates him. Or hates the way he treated her in high school.
But that doesn’t mean she isn’t attracted to him.
Christopher said something about a deal she’d made with Tucker.
The chance that Finley might be here at Raw is reasonable given her many connections to the restaurant. Christopher himself is glancing around like he expects her to pop out from behind the bar.
