JUST THIS ONCE (THE KINGS #1) BY LENA HENDRIX – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lena Hendrix
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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EMILY
Why am I settling for a medium-ugly man who won’t stop staring at my tits?
I questioned all my life’s choices. Safe and predictable held less appeal
as I watched my date dribble spaghetti sauce on his chin. I blame my
mother. She had insisted that a blind date on Valentine’s Day was exactly
what I needed to move on with my life after everything that happened last
fall.
More like a spiraling descent into absolute nothingness.
Insert Dickie Johnson.
Dickie’s mother worked with mine as an administrative assistant at the
local police station, and both had hatched the plan to pair us up.
Dickie. Freaking. Johnson.
After my parents had moved to the coastal Western Michigan town of
Outtatowner, I learned quickly that almost everyone who lived there had
some kind of quirky nickname. Unable to hide my horrified expression,
Mom had assured me that nicknames seemed to be reserved for those
who’d grown up in Outtatowner and not for a substitute teacher who had
barely made it through week one of her new residency.
My parents claimed the nicknames were one of the many things to love
about their charming small town. Dickie could have been Richard or Rick
or, hell, even Bob, but around town, he was known solely as Dickie. The
people here wore their nicknames like a badge of honor.
After being twenty-five minutes late, he’d copped a feel not once, but
twice, on the short walk from the restaurant entrance to our secluded table.
If that wasn’t a bad enough start to our date, Dickie droned on and on about
his real estate licensure without asking a single question about me.
Honestly, that was fine, because the less he knew about me, the better. All I
needed to figure out was how to make a graceful exit without having to hear
about cutting the date short from my mother.
“I closed the sale on this very storefront.” Dickie waved a hand in the
air. “So, if you’re thinking about dessert”—he winked at me—“I get a
discount that I can stack with my coupon.”
I nodded and hummed a response, but his words didn’t register, since I
couldn’t stop staring at the orange splatters of sauce clinging to the square
patch of hair beneath his lower lip.
“Are you even listening to me? I was highlighting my financial
prowess, but I see you’re distracted.” Dickie laughed and sucked in his
lower lip, his tongue darting across the hairs. “It’s a flavor saver.”
My eyes lifted to his. He waggled his eyebrows at me, and my stomach
curled in on itself.
I blinked and shook my head. Surely I hadn’t heard that right. “I’m
sorry . . . a what?”
His forefinger and thumb smoothed down the coarse hairs beneath his
lip. “You’ve never seen a soul patch?” His eyes flicked down my front and
back up, his words sinking in.
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