by Jerry Cole
“There you are.”
Grant looked up to see Robert standing in the doorway. His smile softened immediately. “Here I am. We didn’t deliver fish today, so you’re lucky.”
“For someone who spends as much time at the harbor as you do,” Robert said, stepping into Grant’s embrace, “you hardly ever smell like you do.”
“That’s because I know you’d kick me out of bed,” Grant reasoned. He kissed Robert hard, closing his eyes and relishing every moment of it. “I missed you.”
“You were gone a couple of hours,” Robert said dismissively, but the hitch to his breath told a different story. “We’ve got a new guest. He checked into your old room.”
“Not mine anymore,” Grant pointed out. “Not only because it’s actually a guest room, but I’m kinda sleeping with this awesome guy.”
Robert rolled his eyes. Sure, Grant had used that line before, but it never got old for him. Robert was just going to have to deal with it. “Yeah, we all know you’re sleeping with the guy in charge.”
Grant held up his left hand. “Not just sleeping with, thank you very much.”
Robert’s cheeks tinged pink and he pinched Grant’s hip. “Stop showing off.”
“No,” Grant said emphatically. “It’s not every day a B&B owner asks me to marry him, all right? I’m gonna gloat as much as I can, thank you.”
Despite the blush, Robert looked ridiculously pleased with himself. “While you’re gloating, you should know that your mother used all of the ingredients in the kitchen.”
“All of them?” Grant asked, horrified. He hadn’t done the shopping very long ago and if she’d used everything for the spaghetti, she was going to have Morgan to answer to.
“Well,” Robert hedged, “I have to admit I haven’t been watching them, but they’ve been cooking all day and I’m pretty sure we didn’t have that much fish left over from last week.”
Grant hadn’t caught enough to give his mother a whole day’s cooking with them. “I guess we should see what kind of mess they’re creating. I should never have invited her down.”
Robert snorted. “If you’d tried to keep her and Morgan apart for a second longer, I think you’d have Morgan to answer to.”
Morgan could be a very stubborn young woman when she wanted to be, and Grant was under no illusions that he would have come out of that with any sort of win.
“Still, we probably shouldn’t have left them unsupervised.”
“You’re the one who went out on the boat,” Robert pointed out.
Grant opened his mouth to reply but he was cut off by the sharp crack and smoke filtering out of the new kitchen extension. Morgan’s squeal was more laughter than alarm and she came running out of the B&B a moment later.
“Nana blew up the kitchen!”
“Tattler,” Grant’s mom said.
“What have we gotten ourselves into?” Grant muttered.
Robert shrugged, and despite the fact they had cleaning up in their future, he looked surprisingly optimistic. “Something pretty amazing.”
Grant couldn’t disagree.
*fin*
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