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Another photo came through of him and Everly with puckered lips.
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We all made our way toward the front of the restaurant and said our goodbyes. Hugh and Lila were informed that there was some sort of crisis in the kitchen.
“Hey, can you stick around and help with a few to-go orders while we handle this?” Hugh asked me after everyone else was out the door and I was still saying goodbye to Lila.
“Of course. I’ve got it.”
I spent the next twenty minutes chatting with Brandy, the hostess, and running back to the kitchen to grab the orders for a few customers. Reynolds’ was always packed because they had the best food in town.
I walked back to the kitchen to see Hugh and Lila listening as two of the cooks argued their points after apparently having a big blowup with one another.
There was one final order sitting under the heat lamp, and I checked the receipt.
Captain Jack Sparrow.
I highly doubted Johnny Depp was in Cottonwood Cove, and I couldn’t wait to see who the smartass was who’d placed this order.
I took the bag to the front, as the restaurant had all but cleared out. Closing time was around the corner and everyone was making their way out the door.
A few people stopped me on their way out. This was what I loved about my hometown. Everyone knew everyone, and it really was just like one big, happy family.
J.R., who had been the town Santa Claus for as long as I could remember, picked me up and spun me around as I clung to the to-go order in my hand that dangled behind his back.
“Good to see you, sunshine.” He set me on my feet, and I pushed up on my tiptoes and kissed his cheek.
“You, too,” I said, before turning and hugging his wife, Sandy.
I waved my goodbyes and turned just as the door opened.
And the air left my lungs for the second time this week when I came face-to-face with my nemesis.
Enemy number one.
It didn’t help that he was painfully good-looking. And I wasn’t easily impressed by men. But this particular man was the whole package. He had the looks, the confidence, and the swagger to balance it all out.
And I despised him… obviously.
He was tall, with muscles straining against his white tee and broad shoulders.
Shoulders of the hottest quarterback in the league.
Green eyes. Blond hair. Chiseled jaw with a little bit of scruff.
The bastard.
He reached for the bill of his baseball cap and turned it around slowly as he met my gaze.
No one was up at the hostess stand, as Brandy was most likely helping the busboy, Lionel, who also happened to be her boyfriend, clear off the tables.
He glanced down at the apron that I was wearing, and his brows cinched together. I’d only put it on to protect the white blouse and skirt that I wore beneath it.
“You work here now?” he said, his voice low, and I didn’t miss the pity in his tone.
