Collide (Sunrise Island Brothers Book 1) by E. Davies

Author:E. Davies [Davies, E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

CARTER

I like walking on the beach with Fox.

We have to go pretty damn slow for my sake, but it means we get to talk a lot more deeply.

Even if he doesn’t want to get his heart involved, I’m so glad he’ll let me stray close to him in an emotional moment.

This time when we set off walking again, we’re just close enough together that our spare hands brush together.

Maybe I’m orchestrating it slightly by carrying the coffee in my left hand, not my right… but Fox doesn’t have to know that.

“So you hate fancy mansions and elbow room, right?” Fox quips.

“What?” I laugh. I’m not sure where he’s going for this, but I’m prepared to be roasted a little. I think I’ve earned it several times over with my custom-ordered electric Chevy replica golf cart. “I’m not exactly living in a tiny home.”

“Well, you could be getting groceries delivered to your Vancouver penthouse. But you’re about to join the morning rush for fresh milk.”

Whoa. I’m only getting one thing from that, and it’s delightful. “They sell milk now?” I exclaim. “I need more, actually…”

Is that a rude way to end a date? For that matter, is this a date? Every time seeing Fox raises even more questions.

“It was new last summer. My parents called me about it,” Fox laughs. “But it’s first-come, first-served and the first ferry brings it over.”

“Oh. They don’t have a fridge?” I blush before the question’s even out of my mouth.

“In the world’s smallest grocery store, no, they don’t,” Fox teases me with a straight face.

I raise my coffee cup and point it at him. “I’ll bet you there’s a vending machine out there somewhere that technically counts as a grocery store.”

“Only on a technicality. Face it. Sunrise Groceries is the size of a shoebox—and I’m an expert, so you can’t argue,” Fox says with a grin.

Whoa.

I can’t believe he’s able to joke about that already. It startles me into a laugh, and then he grins at me all smugly and my heart just melts.

I’ve never seen that look on his face… but it suits him beautifully.

And it makes my brain stop in its tracks, so I couldn’t argue back even if I wanted to.

“Okay,” I agree, swaying toward him with my next steps. “I’ll let you play that card.”

“I think that card comes with unlimited lifetime play,” Fox tells me.

“No, yeah. You’re good.”

After a minute, my mind drifts back to the beginning of the conversation, and I glance at him.

Is he trying to ask if I miss that lifestyle? That’s a rant I’m more than happy to go on with him.

“I hate the whole sideshow,” I tell him. “The press tours and the behind-the-scenes bullshit where we have to like, play these personas…”

I just wanted to be a guy who plays hockey the best I possibly can. I put up with the rest of it so I can do that. But when they want me to be someone else, I put my foot down.

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