Total pages in book: 121
Estimated words: 118693 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 593(@200wpm)___ 475(@250wpm)___ 396(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 118693 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 593(@200wpm)___ 475(@250wpm)___ 396(@300wpm)
I let out a huff and walked back over to Finn. “For Pete’s sake, stand up already.”
Alex came walking up. “What happened?”
Pressing my lips together, I made sure I didn’t blurt out anything to him. “Nothing. Finn was leaning back in his chair and slipped.”
The girl giggled, but quickly stopped when I shot her a dirty look. I pointed to her and then made a motion of zipping my lips. She nodded and mimicked throwing the key away. “If that will be all, I’ll start cleaning up, Mr. Montell.”
Alex directed his attention to her and replied, “Yes, Nancy, thank you.”
“Nancy! I’ve been meaning to ask your name. Thank you for the lovely lunch,” I stated while shaking her hand.
Her face turned red as she watched Finn stand up and come over to my side. “Yes,” he said. “Thanks, Nancy. It was…delicious.”
With a quick nod of her head, she answered. “It was my pleasure and um, good luck.” Her eyes darted down to Finn’s pants, then over to me. “With everything.”
My mouth fell open as she gathered up the plates and headed off into the museum.
Finn’s breath hit my neck and caused me to shiver. “I think that was a compliment in my direction.”
I nudged him in the stomach with my elbow, then spun around and faced him. His green eyes sparkled. Even if I’d wanted to, I didn’t think I could ever truly be upset with Finn. “You’re bad, Mr. Ward.”
He waggled his brows, “Oh, you haven’t seen nothing yet, Ms. Adams.”
My lower stomach clenched, and I fought to hold back a moan.
“Okay, well, I feel like I’m a part of a private conversation,” Alex cut in, “so I think I’ll walk the two of you out and you can continue this somewhere else.”
“The library,” Finn said with a smile, guiding me with his hand on the small of my back.
As Alex walked on ahead of us, he mumbled, “Whatever floats your boat, Ward.”
Rory
Books and first times
“The library? You’re bringing me to the library as part of our first date?”
Finn took my hand as we climbed the stairs. “You have a thing against libraries, Rory?”
“No, not at all. I love to read.”
“Good. You can help me then.”
Before I had a chance to ask what he needed help with, we were walking into the library. The smell of the books hit me, and I couldn’t help but smile. Reading was one of my favorite hobbies. Unfortunately, I never had the time to read anymore. I made a note to myself to change that and make the time.
As we walked deeper into the library, I could hear the flip of pages and a few people coughing. I also couldn’t help but notice how many women’s mouths fell open as Finn walked by. It felt kind of nice knowing he was holding my hand as we passed them…giving them a clear picture he was mine.
Mine. Ugh. He wasn’t mine. We were only on our first date.
Then again, so far it had been amazing.
It didn’t take me long to realize we were headed to the children’s area of the library.
When we walked in, the librarian looked up. She was probably about my age, maybe a year or two older. Her face lit up like the Fourth of July when she saw Finn. Her eyes drifted down to our clasped hands and her smile faltered, though only for a moment.
Oh great…even the librarian has a thing for him. Clearly this was something I was going to have to get used to.
“Finn! It’s so great to see you. The kids are super excited about your reading today.”
My eyes widened in surprise when I realized what was going on.
“Awesome. Did the book I requested come in?”
“It did! The Little Fire Engine by Lois Lenski.”
My heartbeat must have increased ten times as my stomach fluttered.
I want to have this man’s babies.
“Perfect.” Finn glanced at me and then back to the librarian. “Oh, I’m sorry. Jessie, this is Rory. Rory, this is Jessie, the children’s librarian.”
She reached for my hand, causing me to snap out of my daydream of birthing Finn’s children.
“It’s a pleasure to meet one of Finn’s friends.”
Oh, okay…wow. She’d really stressed “friends.” She was clearly jealous.
Plastering on a fake smile, I replied, “The pleasure is all mine.”
It wasn’t lost on me that Finn wrapped his arm around my waist and drew me closer to him. As if to tell her that in his eyes we were more than friends.
“You’re a few minutes early, so if you’d like to show…Rory, was it?”
“Yes, Rory,” I answered, suppressing an eye roll.
“If you’d like to show Rory around, please feel free to. We’ve got about twenty minutes or so.”
Finn turned away from her, and my breath hitched at the way he looked at me. “I think I can find something to show her.”