Full Coverage: Boys of Fall by Erin Nicholas Read Free Book Online

even know if she liked donuts, not to mention what kind. Why he felt the need to bring her something, he couldn’t really say, but he’d finally just poured two cups of coffee.
    Which now seemed pretty stupid. He’d had his car worked on down here before. The things that could be counted on at the auto shop were excellent service, dirty jokes, swearing loudly, and hot, strong coffee. The best part—and Nolan wasn’t the only one who thought so—the funniest, dirty jokes and the loudest swearing usually came from Randi.
    He dug in his pocket and pulled out several packets of sugar, a few of low-cal sweetener, and five tiny tubs of creamer, both plain and hazelnut.
    He had no idea how Randi took her coffee.
    Of course, as he dumped the cream and sugars on the edge of the truck she was working on, he realized that since she did work here—owned the place, in fact—she probably had whatever cream and sweetener she needed too.
    He looked up to find her grinning at him. “Thanks.”
    “I wanted to cover the bases.”
    She nodded. “Done.”
    He felt like an idiot.
    Why did one of them always feel stupid around the other?
    He sighed. This was not going to continue. He could just drop the whole thing. He could just consider Randi a friend from high school. They could keep socializing in groups and having the occasional awkward conversation…where he sometimes got to see her bare hip. That hadn’t been all bad.
    But he wanted to take her to New York with him. He had a huge party coming up with his publisher and he needed a date. He hadn’t been able to even consider anyone else since Randi had kissed him at Coach’s party. But if they couldn’t get through ten minutes without being awkward and something strange happening, it would be a no-go.
    But if they could have a normal one-on-one interaction, then it was a green light. There wasn’t another woman he wanted to take. He’d considered asking Lacey to go as a friend, just so he wasn’t dateless, or stuck with a blind date set up by his agent’s assistant, or trapped for a weekend in New York with one of the women he’d dated here and there in San Antonio. He’d done all of the above and none appealed at all.
    Especially when there was even the slightest chance that he could take Randi.
    Far from Quinn, in the bright lights and big city, just the two of them, for a whole weekend. Sounded like paradise to him.
    Of course he knew it would be out of her comfort zone. But he simply couldn’t imaging taking someone else. And he wanted to give her some Cinderella treatment. He wanted to buy her a fancy dress and some sparkly jewelry and give her an afternoon at the spa and, yeah, he wanted to show her the big city, and hold her hand and dance with her. And take her back to a fancy hotel suite and…
    Yeah. He wanted to sweep her off her feet and impress her.
    “You okay?” she asked.
    “Yes.” He absolutely was. This was going to be great. They were going to have a great time here over the next couple of days, and he was going to convince her to fly to New York with him in two weeks.
    “So how do you want to do this?”
    He held up his notebook. “I’ll just ask questions as you work?”
    “Great. You can sit right there.” She pointed to an overturned plastic bucket. But she dropped her arm a moment later. “No, hang on.”
    She headed into the office and started to pull a chair into the garage. The bottom of the chair caught on the doorway and she fought with it for a moment.
    “Randi, no, this is good. I’m fine.” He started for the bucket. If that’s what people sat on around here… Then again, people probably didn’t sit around out here much. This was the work area. The clients sat in the waiting room with the coffee pot and the TV that was perpetually turned to ESPN.
    “You’ll get dirty sitting on that.” She gave the chair a hard yank and it came loose, causing her to stumble slightly and swear as the back of her hand banged against the