Come and Get It_A Small Town Bachelor Romance by Abby Knox

Author:Abby Knox [Knox, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Author Abby Knox, LLC
Published: 2019-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

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He walks me out to my truck and pulls out a fat billfold.

I put up my hands. “No. I can’t accept that from you. I’m going to pay my own way.”

“Paul, this is just to help you find a motel room for a few nights until you have a place to stay. Coach Troy says he saw your truck parked at the ballfield late last night and it was still there early this morning when he went to set up for practice. Are you sleeping in your truck?”

Honesty. That’s another thing I’m supposed to be doing now. “Yeah.”

“I can’t let that happen; it’ll be on my conscience.”

“Then I guess we’re at an impasse, old buddy.”

Jackson crosses his arms and eyeballs me, real serious like, for a few seconds.

“You know what. Maggie’s gonna kill me for this but something is telling me it's the right thing to do. Come work for me and you can sleep in the guest house. We’ve got plenty of rooms. And you can pay us back for room and board when you’re able to find a place of your own.”

“That’s kind of you to offer but—”

“But nothing. We can’t have a homeless dude hanging around the kids’ ball field. It’s weird. Ever think of that?”

“True,” I say. Somehow I’m not even feeling insulted by this.

As self-righteous as Jackson has been known to be, he has a way of saying the truth without making you feel humiliated.

“I can’t sleep in your fancy guest rooms…”

“It ain’t fancy. Maggie says it’s farmhouse chic, or some shit,” Jackson says.

“All right, fine,” I say, because I just want this endless conversation to end. “I’ll come work for you if you actually have work to do. But I’ll sleep in the shabby chic barn.”

“No.”

“That or I scoot on out of here.”

He uncrosses his arms and hooks his fingers in the belt loops on his hips and squints off into the distance as if looking for an answer. “All right, fine. Just don’t…tell anyone I’m housing you in the barn. It’s weird.”

“I get it, I get it. Don’t tell people whatever weird shit I’ve got going on. That’s how it goes around here.”

Jackson shows me the baler and shows me where all the equipment is that’s needed for today’s work. There’s a lot full of hay that needs baling before I can sleep upstairs in the loft.

“You sure Maggie is gonna be OK with all this?”

Jackson cackles. “We’ll fight it out tonight and then in nine months we’ll have another make-up-sex baby. Won’t be the first time. Probably won’t be the last for Fertile Myrtle and me.”

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