“Me too.” I smiled. AJ’d had a rough childhood and had sworn off love until Blake wiggled her way into his heart.
“You know who else is handsome and tall?”
Please don’t say it.
“Nathan.” She said it. “He reminds of AJ.”
She wasn’t wrong. “Gran, it’s not gonna happen.”
“Why not? I see how you look at each other.” How could I explain without revealing my secrets?
“I’m not sure what you think you saw, but it’s not what you think.”That would certainly clear things up.
“What kind of nonsense answer is that?”
The only one I had, unless I confessed.
“It’s complicated,” I answered.
“Is it because of the scar?”
“What? No, of course not.” I didn’t care about the scar. I sighed. “It’s because we tried, and he lied to me.”
“Hmmm.” She thought about it. “Because he told you his name was Scott when you met in Vegas?”
I hadn’t made it hard to figure out.
“Yes.”
“And you’ve never given someone a fake name?”
Of course I had, but not someone I wanted to date.
He said he wanted to come clean. But then he never got the chance because his cover was blown.
It didn’t matter. The reason it wouldn’t work was my current secret, not his previous lies.
Not waiting for me to answer, she said, “Well, Prince likes him.” As if hearing his name summoned him, Prince jumped on the table and sauntered over to Gran.
Prince had a lot of pull in Gran’s small ranch home, but he didn’t get a say in my love life. “Gran…”
“Cats have a sixth sense about these things.”
The adorable spawn of Satan meowed his agreement before knocking a spoon off the table.
“Prince and I think Nathan’s a good man. And he’s easy on the eyes.” She turned her attention to the cat. “Plus he gives good scritches, doesn’t he?”
I sighed as I leaned over to pick up the spoon. There was no point in arguing.
Chapter 24
Nathan
After packing my bag, I went to the office to grab my laptop and protection duty gear, including my vest and rifle. As I approached Jamie’s office to ask about vests for Ashley and Gran, should we need them, I overheard him talking.
“I’m not sure what we can do.” He sounded tired. After a pause, he said, “I promise, Em, I will personally accompany her any time Finn wants to see the baby. If that’s what Ashley wants.”
I shouldn’t have eavesdropped, and I certainly shouldn’t have barged into his office looking like I was ready for a fight. But a different kind of panic had washed over me.Ashley’s pregnant?
