Today’s Sunday Snipped is from Opposites Ignite, Book Two in the Bangers Tavern Series.
It’s always awkward when someone walks in on an intimate moment–doubly so when the intruder is your grandmother!
After waking up naked and hungover in Eddie’s bed on New Year’s Day, Rosie realizes it was a huge mistake to hook up with a coworker, especially one as strait-laced and shy as Eddie. He doesn’t see it that way, but reluctantly accepts her decision to remain “just friends.”
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Rather than watch Rosie walk out his door, Eddie turned his back and started washing their dirty glasses. The front door clicked open, then she squeaked like a dog’s chew toy. He whirled. “Rosie? You okay?”
She’d frozen in the door frame, clutching her coat to her chest. On the landing stood his grandmother holding a tray.
“Babka!” He rushed to the doorway and stepped in front of Rosie. “Hi. What are you—”
“Surprise, lapochka!” With her ample hip, she nudged him aside and strode through the door, a woman on a mission. “You missed the big family party in Seattle last night, so Dedka and I came down to toast the new year with you.” She set the tray on his kitchen counter and pinched his cheek. “My hard-working boy.” She leaned past him and winked at Rosie. “Always working, this one. But I guess you know that, Miss…?”
Rosie croaked as if she’d swallowed her tongue.
Babka poked his ribs with her sharp elbow. “Why didn’t you tell us about your new girlfriend?” In his grandparents’ old-school world, overnight guest equaled serious relationship, not one-shot misadventure. What a freakin’ disaster.
“Babka, this is Rosie Chu, my friend from work.” A truthful statement, sort of. Hopefully, he and Rosie could get back to being friends someday, once they moved past this awkwardness—maybe in a few months, when the memories of their dead-end passion faded.
Right, like that’s gonna happen.
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