by Tabatha Kiss
Trudy shrugs. “I don’t mind. Go nuts.”
“You’re a true professional, Trudy,” I tell her, flashing a wink.
“Tell it to my paycheck, boss,” she quips.
I turn around and fill two to-go cups to the brim with coffee and a third cup with milk for Charlotte. Anna claims the table in the corner and we each take a seat on either side of Charlotte as she devours her cookie.
“Thank you,” Anna says as I set her coffee down.
“Decaf,” I say. “Just in case.”
She rolls her eyes. “Vincent is teaching you some very bad things.”
I laugh, taking a soothing sip from my cup. My eyes fall to her left hand, instantly seeing that ring on her finger. It looks just as good on her as I pictured in my head.
Anna motherfucking Silva.
She looks at the ring, too, and smiles at me. Her eyes flick suddenly toward Charlotte and she silently nudges twice in her direction.
I read the gesture and nod.
Anna takes a deep breath. “Hey, Charlotte,” she says, pausing, “we have something to tell you.”
Charlotte looks up from her cookie, her little, multicolored eyes flicking between us.
“Charlotte, Jake and I are getting married,” she says. “Do you know what that means?”
She shakes her head.
“It means,” I say, smiling wider, “that your mother and I love each other very much and we want to spend the rest of our lives together.”
“And,” Anna says, looking at me, “that he is officially going to be your daddy and he’s going to spend the rest of his life with you, too.”
For a second, my heart stops. My throat tightens and it takes everything in me not to break down in front of them.
“Yeah,” I say, getting lost in Anna’s soft, brown eyes. “That, too.”
Charlotte turns back to her cookie. “Oh, okay,” she says, taking another large bite.
Anna looks at me and shrugs. “Well, I’m excited for us,” she jokes.
I set my hand palm-up on the table and Anna takes it, flashing her ring finger with pride.
“So am I,” I say.
I bring her hand to my lips to kiss her knuckles. Anna smiles at me and I sit back, wondering when that regret and anguish is going to take me over. But it never does.
So, this is what family really feels like.
Sweet Cravings Series
Sugary sweet. Sinfully dangerous.
Stand-alone romances.
#1: Muffin Top
#2: Hot Sauce
Also by Tabatha Kiss
RICH BITCHES SERIES
Pretty Little Thing
Pretty Dirty Trick
Pretty Ever After
SWEET CRAVINGS SERIES
Sugary Sweet. Sinfully Dangerous.
Stand-alone Romances.
Muffin Top
Hot Sauce
THE SNAKE EYES SERIES
Stand-alone romances. Interconnecting stories.
One unforgettable adventure!
Bodyguard
The Hitman’s Dancer
Love and Wargames
Bloodlines
Hard Bounty
No Fury
THE BAD BALLER BOOKS
Irresistible Stand-alone Sports Romances!
Whiplash
Johnny Deeper
Home Run Baby
THE MIDWEST ALPHAS TRILOGY
Romance, Suspense, and MMA!
Untouched
Unbroken
Undying
STAND-ALONE ROMANCES
Bad boys, billionaires, and so much more!
Blind Girl
Ruin Me
Lumberjack BOSS
Old Habits
2 in the PINK
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About the Author
Tabatha Kiss lives in Chicago, Illinois. You can probably catch her huddled up in a hoodie, reading a good romance beneath a tree in Jackson Park with her trusty husky by her side. She enjoys roller derby, sushi, and is always searching for her forever bad boy.
In the meantime, she writes.
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