Someone to Love (Pride, Oregon #10) - Jill Sanders Page 0,3

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The longer George stuck around her place of business, the more she wondered what his uncle had to do to compensate him for giving up his carefree life.

For the first few days, George had focused on making rounds outside the building and helping her clean up.

When they found the man who had shot her sister at the bottom of a cliff off the coast of California, she was surprised that George continued to stick around. Since most of her events happened on the weekends, she had only seen George a few days each week.

Wedding rehearsals and dinners usually happened on Friday nights, followed by the main event of the wedding, which consumed all of her Saturdays.

Most Sunday mornings there was a church group, followed by whatever other event was scheduled for the day. Sometimes it was a birthday or anniversary party, or a baby shower.

A month after getting shot, Kara was able to lend a hand with organization, but so far, Robin hadn’t let her sister lift an actual finger around the place. Not when she still struggled to hold anything in her left arm.

Since their mother was a physical therapist, Robin knew that it was only a matter of time before her sister would be back up to speed.

It had been five weeks since her sister’s shooting, and this weekend’s party was a dual gender reveal party for cousins Lilly and Riley, who were pregnant at the same time by twin husbands Corey and Carter. The brothers owned the local pizzeria in town called Baked.

That meant that George would be a guest instead of a security guard. She wondered instantly what kind of woman he’d have on his arm for this event. Something close to jealousy crept in, and she was in a bad mood before the event. Hoping no one would notice, she went about her business and tried to not keep an eye out for the man she’d had a major crush on for the past year.

Chapter Two

George stood back and listened to his mother talking quietly to his sister, Lilly. How had he allowed his family to talk him into coming to a stupid baby party in the first place.

The rest of his cousins had been roped into attending as well, which meant he wasn’t the only man sitting among a bunch of pink and blue balloons and other baby decorations.

He really was excited to find out what gender both his sister Lilly’s and his cousin Riley’s babies would be. His entire family was excited to find out.

Especially his mother. Lacey Jordan was, according to many, the head of the Jordan clan, even though her brother Todd was the oldest. Everyone in the family knew it was actually Lacey that ran the family.

She was not only the mayor of Pride but the mayor of the family, a role his mother had taken to heart his entire life.

She might be the smallest of the family, but she was, at least in his mind, the strongest.

So when she’d informed him that he needed to start playing security for Sunset Weddings after Kara had been shot, he’d dropped everything he had going, including his position as a junior lawyer at a small law firm in Portland, where he’d worked since finishing law school in California.

He had worked so hard to finish the degree the past few years that when he’d finally graduated, he hadn’t known what to do with himself. So he’d taken the first job he’d been offered. The lower position at the firm allowed him enough personal time to play just as hard as he’d worked over the previous few years. He knew he had been overdoing it a little and supposed he was making up for all the lost time during his studies when he’d neglected to have a life.

Playing babysitter for the wedding sisters, as he had been referring to them since he’d first met them at Lilly’s wedding, had not been on his agenda. But when his mother had called and insisted, he’d cleared his schedule for the weekends and moved back home so he could babysit.

Then again, watching the pretty brunette rush around the massive barn for work hadn’t been that much of a chore. He’d never seen anyone work as hard as Robin Jenkins.

He knew that her parents had been longtime friends of his family and could remember seeing the sisters several times when they were younger. They had occasionally visited Pride during the holidays or during the summers, staying at this