Anything But Sweet by Candis Terry

Author:Candis Terry [Terry, Candis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-07-01T10:00:00+00:00

A person could call himself ten kinds of stupid and still not listen to reason. As Reno headed over to Town Square, he figured he might have lost a few more brain cells between leaving the door of the hardware store and the curb on the other side of the street.

He had no business leaving the store for even a moment. There were accounts to review. Orders to place. Customers who wanted to make purchases. Packages to deliver. Which was what he was about to do, and that was his total lame-ass excuse for walking across the grass toward the woman he wanted nothing to do with and whom he also couldn’t get off his mind.

To further prove his stupidity, he fully realized he could have and should have waited for someone from her crew to come pick up the boxes of landscape lighting. But noooo. He had to take it upon himself to deliver.

He’d always had a level head. Always been the one to pull his wild brothers out of scrapes and catastrophes. Always been the brother everyone relied on. Because he had good common sense.

What a load of bullshit.

At the moment, his common sense was the size of a sunflower seed and stuck so deep in the ground, it had no chance of growing.

The grass beneath his boots was dry and crunched with every step. Ernie McGreavy must be having nightmares about his carefully tended carpet of green. There were holes everywhere, not to mention the craters created by a backhoe currently riding across the lawn and doing further damage.

Nothing looked like the old Town Square.

The gazebo had been torn down. In its place was a new foundation and piles of two-by-fours. The picnic benches had disappeared. And a border of bright yellow plastic CAUTION tape surrounded the entire block.

Somehow, he avoided getting in the way of workers and machinery as he walked toward a pair of Daisy Dukes and the shapely owner, who was currently on her knees digging in a flower bed, planting drought-resistant shrubs.

He tilted his head for a better look, feeling not in the least like a total stalker, just a man who appreciated a nice view.

Or at least that’s what he told himself.

As he came up behind her, he noted the haphazard way she’d pulled all that silky brown hair into a messy knot on top of her head. He took in the way the muscles in her legs flexed as she leaned forward and dug in the rich, dark layer of soil. Appreciated the sheen of perspiration that dampened the back of her slender neck. The tops of her shoulders were turning a painful shade of red. And as she jammed her trowel into the ground, she mumbled beneath her breath.

“You forget your sunscreen?” He set the boxes down behind her.

She sat up and turned, looked up at him, and squinted against the bright sunlight. “What?”

“You’re getting burned.

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