Fall Into Temptation (Blue Moon #2) by Lucy Score Read Free Book Online Page B

Joey, who seemed to be the focus of the youngest Pierce’s attention.
    Gia devoured her helping of lasagna, admiring her father’s vegetarian spin on one of her favorite family recipes. She had few childhood memories that weren’t steeped in fresh basil and simmering tomato sauce.
    While she and her sisters were growing up, Franklin Merrill was running two families: his daughters and his restaurants. Gia and her sisters had spent their formative years in restaurant kitchens. Gia had been waitressing herself through a bachelor’s degree in plant sciences when she met Paul Decker, the sexy, charming, free-spirited musician.
    It had been her twenty-first birthday. Paul was playing in the band at the bar where she and her girlfriends were ordering girlie drinks. She noticed him noticing her and when the band took five, he took her number.
    Six years, one unplanned pregnancy, and an unfinished college degree later, Gia was older and wiser. Or at least wise enough to know that the handsome mayor seated across from her was off limits.
    She had fallen for looks and lust before. She wouldn’t do it again. She just wished Beckett would stop looking at her so she could stop her face from flushing.
    Franklin paused his noodle cutting for Aurora to lean over and whisper something in Phoebe’s ear. Phoebe giggled and nudged him in the ribs with her elbow. Franklin grinned back at her and brushed a kiss across her cheek as he reached past her for the salad.
    Gia smiled.
    It was good to see her father happy again. As far as she was concerned, he deserved all the happiness in the world. Raising three girls on his own had to have been a long, lonely period in his life. Seeing him smitten with Phoebe, a sharp, smart woman who raised three good men? Well, that was enough to send her heart soaring.
    She was just starting to wonder if she could sneak a picture of the happy couple to text to her sisters when she spotted Beckett’s frown. A frown directed at Franklin and Phoebe.
    Disapproval pumped off of him in waves so strong that Gia was surprised that no one else seemed to notice.
    “So, Gia,” Summer said from the other end of the table. “How’s the studio going so far?”
    Beckett’s attention redirected to her.
    “It’s going well,” Gia cleared her throat. “The student retention from Maris’s classes to mine has been great and I picked up a few new ones.”
    “I heard Fitz takes class there,” Carter said, reaching for the salad.
    An image of the skinny Bill Fitzsimmons in his yoga briefs popped into Gia’s head and she bobbled her water glass. “Fitz is a regular,” she said diplomatically.
    “A regular naked weirdo,” Beckett offered.
    Gia laughed. “Beckett knows first-hand. He took a class last week.”
    “ You took a yoga class?” Joey asked in disbelief, her brown eyes dancing.
    “What’s so unbelievable about that?” Beckett asked indignantly.
    “Wait, wait, wait. Let me get a mental picture of Beckett om-ing,” Jax snickered.
    “I’d like to see you take that class,” Beckett said mildly. “You, too,” he said to Carter who was chuckling.
    “I wouldn’t want to humiliate you in front of your constituents,” Carter teased.
    “I think you’re both scared,” Beckett announced.
    “Pfft, it’s yoga. You lay on the floor and stretch. No offense, Gia,” Jax said, shooting an apologetic glance her way.
    “None taken,” she said sweetly. “Yoga’s definitely not for everyone. There are a lot of people who can’t handle it.”
    Beckett kicked back, clearly enjoying not being the intended target of her manipulation this time. “Yeah, Jax, you and Carter don’t have the upper body strength that Fitz does. You’d just embarrass yourselves.”
    “It can be pretty difficult,” Gia agreed in feigned earnestness. “I’d really hate to see one of you get hurt.”
    Carter and Jax exchanged a look.
    “You know, you guys have been trying to figure out how to decide who gets to brew the first