Chapter 4
AustinRestaurant certificates—the best seven hundred bucks he’d spent in a long time. Austin left Hailey’s office and strode to his car. Not that he was a stranger to the oven—he knew how to cook a mean one-pot cilantro lime chicken, or oven fry a juicy filet mignon, but honestly, what single guy wanted to cook for himself?
Maybe he’d invite the pretty Barkville director to have dinner with him one night. Purely as a thank you for not going to the next bidder when he wasn’t present to pick up his win the night before. As he slunk into the driver’s seat and the Beamer purred to life, he thought of Haley, whose full lips so easily stretched into a warm smile.
Okay, okay. Who was he bullshitting?
The woman was gorgeous in a girl next door meets vixen way. Fresh and beautiful lik
