Easy Evenings

Lazlo has been living a double life and has seemed unwilling to make a change. But in this installment in the Mangrove Stories series we finally get to learn all of Lazlo's secrets. Of course the biggest surprise is a secret not even Laz was aware of. I thought the speed of which we went from restraining order to moving in was a bit fast. But all in all this is a sweet love story of two people finding each other and a new life.

My heart broke for Lazlo and I held my breath as he interacted with Britton hoping for the best, and as it's a Mary Calmes book I knew there would be a happy ending but still I was so wrapped up in the story I worried how it would end.

I have grown to love these novellas in Mary Calmes's 'Mangrove Stories' series. At first I wasn't so sure since I'm used to full length novels by this author, but it didn't take me long to fall in love with Mangrove, Florida, and with each of the couples introduced. This author has a true gift and I'm so grateful that she's willing to share it with me. Lazlo fascinated me from the first moment he appeared in a 'Mangrove Stories' book. I knew that when Mary wrote his tale it was going to be explosive.
\"But the straight-laced attorney had distinguished himself because of the trust he’d placed in me from our initial meeting. We’d met as equals, just two guys, and because of that, ours had never become a relationship in which he paid me.\"
Laz and Britton couldn't be more different if they tried. He's a wealthy, high-class attorney, in New York City who handles million dollar cases. Laz works six months out of the year in New York as a high-priced rent boy and has been hustling since he was sixteen, when his mother made him to provide for the family. The other six months, Laz spends in sleepy Mangrove creating his art and selling it in his shop. Britton wanted Laz to be his happily ever after, but Laz couldn't do it. A lot of fights happened, and then Laz ended it and walked out.
So when he sees Britton in Mangrove, having opened an office with a friend, Laz assumes all is forgiven and he's being given a second chance. Well, that hope is dashed when Britton slaps a restraining order on him. *snort* Unfortunately, Laz is presented with a three-year old daughter he knew nothing about, Katie, or Kitty as Laz calls her, and he needs a lawyer to help, but Britton's partner is out of town. What now?
\"God, you’re a pain in the ass.”
This was new. “What?”
“I wondered how you could simply stop, change your whole life for a daughter you didn’t know, and then it hit me.”
“I don’t—”
“You never wanted your life. You never wanted to do what you did,” he said gruffly. “You hated it, in fact.”
Oh, Mary, you really hit me hard with this installment. Once Laz's reason for whoring became obvious, it made so much sense, and his reconciliation with Britton was bittersweet. I adored Kitty and the changes she brought about. This was probably the sweetest of all the stories to date, and I greatly enjoyed it.
NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews