“It’s Carter Roy,” Carter stressed. “I can’t help what my parents named me.”
“Well, either way, you’re all trending on the town Facebook page.”
“You can’t trend on Facebook,” Joe informed him. Jack turned to him with a raised eyebrow. “What? Everyone knows you trend on Twitter.”
Jack shook his head. “Anyway, seeing as how this was all some elaborate mixup, and Mary Anne doesn’t want to press charges-“
“Why would I?” Mary Anne grinned. “You boys bring in more foot traffic every time you start a fight in my bakery.”
Jack smiled at her, giving her a little wink. “Since no one is pressing charges, you’re all free to go. Oh, and in case you boys are thinking about pulling another bank heist, just remember that you’re old enough now that the town will prosecute.”
Robert shook the sheriff’s hand and came over to me. I sighed as I looked at my donuts and coffee on the ground. I didn’t have time to grab more. I had to get to work.
“I’m really sorry about my brothers. They had this crazy plan-“
“Please, don’t bother explaining. Based on Hunter’s explanation, it doesn’t sound like a plan you would have gone along with.”
“So, you’re not upset with me?”
I shook my head. “No, but I have to admit, for a minute, I thought Lucy was one of your girlfriends from the city.”
His brows furrowed and he glanced over at her. “Why would you think that?”
“Well, she didn’t look like anyone from around here, and you knew her,” I shrugged. “I just assumed that you were nervous because she was an ex.”
He chuckled slightly. “Yeah, I didn’t expect her to walk through that door.” He shoved his hands in his pockets and stared at me with a cocky smirk. “So, you were jealous.”
I averted my eyes, not wanting to admit that I was in fact jealous of a woman based solely on the fact that she might be after Robert. “Maybe.”
He nodded. “I like you being jealous.”
“Why’s that?”
“Well, if you weren’t, I must not be doing something right.”
He glanced down at his watch and swore. “Well, now that I’m late for my meeting, I really have to run. I’m really sorry about the other night, and everything else that happened this morning.”
“It’s fine. Let’s just move on.”
“I’m sorry I didn’t help you move this weekend.”
I waved him off. “Don’t worry about it. I enjoyed working by myself.”
“I don’t know when I’m going to be able to come down and see you again. I have a busy week.”
“Maybe I can drive up to see you.”
“You’d do that?”
“I want to see you. Maybe I can drive up during the week a few times, and you can come down here on the weekends.”
His arm slid around my waist and he pulled me in close. “I like the sound of that,” he said before he pressed a kiss to my mouth. He lingered for a moment like he wanted to stay, but then he pulled back and sighed. “I have to go. I’ll call you later.”
“Bye.”
As he walked out the door, I sighed, happy that our issues were fixed and we weren’t fighting anymore. Carter strode up beside me, a devilish smirk on his face. “So, I guess this means no coffee dates or dinners.”
“Not when I have Robert’s brother, who happens to be badass ex-military on speed dial,” I said as I walked away.
Robert
“So, I’m gonna ask Anna to move in with me,” I said as I tossed down two cards. The whole table stilled. I glanced up and saw Eric staring at me.
“You just bought her a house. Why would she move up to the city?”
“Because we hardly saw each other all week. She came up once, and it wasn’t nearly enough time with her.”
Eric’s brows furrowed. “Wouldn’t that be a big pain in the ass for her to drive an hour every day to work?”
“She doesn’t need to work. I make enough money. She could go back to school and figure out what she really wants to do.”
“What’s wrong with what she does now?” Andrew asked.
“There’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s like you said, it wouldn’t make sense to drive that far to work.”
“Did you ever stop to think that she might not want to live in the city?” Eric asked. “Besides, she likes her job, and I don’t appreciate you trying to take my office manager away from me.”
“Look, we’ve got something good going for us. I wanted to ask her to marry me, but it’s too soon for