Page 35 of Tempting Me

Could you imagine if I told her that? She’d flip. She'd probably have some comeback about how I’m not experienced enough or how she could hire someone else, and I’d tell her I’m well beyond experienced and that she loves that she hired me, and well, we’d just bicker like an old married couple for the night.

I wipe a hand over my face to swipe the grin away.

I don’t think I should enjoy the way we banter as much as I do.

I lean back in my seat and wait for Sadie to join me, then I spot her walking toward me with two coffees, so I jump up to grab them for her.

Once we are sitting across from each other, she gives me a knowing look.

“Tired?” she asks.

I sip my coffee with a nod.

“Very.”

“Late night?”

She looks down at her cup, but I still catch her lips tug up.

“You know, don’t you?”

Her nose scrunches, and she nods. “But only because Shay told me about it.”

“What? When?”

“At girls’ … I ran into her here.”

I narrow my gaze at my soon-to-be sister-in-law. She has the decency to look away.

“She just randomly blurted it out.”

Sadie nods.

“No, she did not, Sadie Collins Future Asher.”

That’s the sentence that makes her cave.

“Fine, okay. She told me,” Sadie leans in to whisper the rest of the sentence, “at girls’ night.”

I sit back as if she slapped me.

“Girls’ night?” I repeat.

“Yes.”

“You and Shay hang out enough to have a girls’ night?”

“Yes.”

This is news to me. Does Hudson know? He’s mentioned Shay’s name a time or two at Sunday breakfast, but now I'm starting to think he might know more than me.

“Who else goes to these nights?”

“Brooke, Grace, and Quinn.”

“What?” I snap, drawing Brooke’s attention from behind the counter, where she’s talking to one of her employees.

“Stop, it’s not a big deal.”

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