The Heart's Game (The Kelly Brothers, Book 4) Read Online Free PDF

your mother will succumb to my charms and good looks.” He glanced down at her feet. “She made you do your toes again.”
    “As always.” She opened the can of pop, but paused before she took a drink. “Do you think it’s safe for me to drink this?”
    “It’s caffeine free and made with real sugar.” He took a long drink from his beer. “Any reason why your mom asked me not to come tonight?”
    “I have a sneaking suspicion it has something to do with Tam.”
    “She’s back?”
    Jenny nodded and took a sip of the pomegranate soda. “And I’m fully prepared for the matchmaking efforts.”
    “Just tell them you’re gay,” he teased with a wink. “That worked for Jason.”
    She laughed and leaned against Mike, enjoying the cool breeze that blew in from the water a few blocks away. “I have a feeling our news will have the same effect.”
    “Nervous?”
    “ ‘Nervous’ doesn’t begin to describe it.”
    Her father joined them and fetched a beer from the chest. “Fixed it.”
    “Dì Tam will be so happy.”
    Her father nodded and flicked his gaze over her outfit. “So you didn’t change your clothes?”
    “Nope.”
    “Good girl. I like that T-shirt.”
    As an electrical engineer, he would. At least she had her father’s approval.
    Her father then started talking to Mike about his latest case. Both Jason and Mike were lawyers and worked at the same firm, although in different fields. Jason’s expertise was in the field of environmental law, while Mike was a corporate litigator who handled the cases for some of the biggest businesses in Seattle. He divulged what he could, mainly that people were stupid, but steered the conversation toward the upcoming Seahawks season and how they’d defend their Super Bowl title.
    Half an hour later, Jason joined them outside. “I’ve officially been banned from the kitchen.” He took a beer from Mike and wrapped his arm around his husband’s waist.
    The list of reasons why was a mile long, from tampering with their mother’s secret recipes to bringing Mike to dinner. “What for?” she asked.
    “This time, for suggesting that you were quite capable of finding your own husband.” He swirled the beer in his bottle. “I have the sneaking suspicion Tam left to fetch a potential groom for you.”
    They turned to their father, who merely shrugged in confirmation.
    “Damn it!” Jenny slammed her can of soda down on the nearby patio table. “She knows better than to try that shit with me.”
    Jason took her hands and waited for her to calm down. “It’ll be okay, Jenny. We’ve got this. Just sit between me and Dad, and we’ll get through dinner without too much indigestion.”
    The front door opened again, this time with Tam proclaiming her arrival. Mom followed with the call for them to come in for dinner.
    Sure enough, when they got to the table, there was a slender, well-dressed man in a dark suit standing next to Dì Tam. Her aunt gave her a strained smile and said in Vietnamese, “Hue, I’d like for you to meet Duong. He’s from the same village your mother and I grew up in.”
    Jenny matched her aunt’s smile, trying to not wince at the use of her Vietnamese name, and replied in English, “Nice to meet you, Duong.”
    Before her aunt could suggest she sit next to the potential bridegroom, Jason and Mike flanked her and pulled out the chair between them. “Let’s have a seat and enjoy the delicious food Ma and Dì Tam made,” her brother said.
    Jenny sank into the chair and watched the frown deepen on their guest’s face as he took in her appearance. No doubt he was promised a modest, quiet woman, not the sloppy girl in cutoffs and flip-flops. But it didn’t matter. One way or another, he’d end up like the previous suitors her mom and aunt had tried to pair her up with.
    Dinner was a tense affair. The conversation was mostly in Vietnamese, despite her and Jason’s efforts to steer it back into English so Mike could follow along. Their