“That’s your mom?”
It wasn’t really a question. “And her fiancé.”
“Good guy?”
“I wouldn’t know. They’ve been dating three months.”
“Wow. She moves fast.”
Another kiss.
That’s it.
She stormed over to her mother. “We’re closed.”
Her mother looked up. Even though Olivia Mack was in her mid-fifties, she barely had a wrinkle to her name. And that magic pill was called Botox.
“Oh, sorry, darling. We lost track of time.” Her mother stood.
Jonah rose too, pulling the sides of his suit jacket together. Why he wore a suit, she had no idea. He was an accountant who, according to her mother, worked remotely. And even if he didn’t, the second he was off the clock, he could change into something more comfortable, right? Or was she just finding everything about him annoying because he was engaged to her mother?
Her mother looked up at Joel and smiled ear to ear. “Hi. I don’t think we’ve properly met. I’m Liv.”
Joel shook her hand. “Joel.”
“Cute name.”
Cute name? What was her mother, fifteen?
If possible, the smile widened as her mother glanced between them. “I didn’t know you two were friends.”
“We’re not,” Polly clarified.
Joel slung an arm over her shoulders. “She’smyfriend. Polly has a love-hate thing going on with me.”
What. The. Hell.
Her mother chuckled. “Oh, that’s often the case with my Polly and men.” Then her mother leaned into Joel. “Keep working on the love part. She’s worth it.”
“Mom!”
Her mother held up her hands. “All right. I’m going.”
The second her mother left, Polly lifted their empty mugs and took them to the kitchen.
“So is it Jonah you don’t like, or is it all of your mom’s partners?”
Polly stiffened. “I never said I didn’t like Jonah.”
“I think you like Jonah less than you like me.”
“I’m not sure that’s a mathematical possibility.”
Joel laughed.
She forced herself to ignore the way that husky, deep chuckle slipped into parts of her body that it had no right slipping into. “I don’tnotlike him. I just don’t like my mother dating him. Plus, from everything I’ve gathered, he seems to have the emotional depth of a raindrop.”
“I thought you didn’t know him.”
