Dating During Lockdown: A Billionaire and Single Mom Quarantine Romance (Love Under Lockdown Book 10) by Jamie Knight

Author:Jamie Knight [Knight, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Leif

Sleep was overrated. Sure, I was fairly certain that Odin was blessing me, but I got more work done in three days than I had in the last two months. I was taking the concept of a lockdown a bit more literally than even the leaders of our government probably meant. Anything to keep from thinking about Brigid, or what she apparently thought of me. If only that were possible.

Three days of nearly solid labor, sleeping only when exhaustion overtook me, subsisting only on things I could get out of a box or a can. So focused my vision was going blurry, but there she still was. In the back of my head. Beckoning me to her. I needed to take a different tack.

I had almost forgotten what the sun was like. My heavy sunglasses were more necessary than they ever had been before. Gaining my bearings, I got on my bike and headed for the range.

The air conditioner hit like an arctic gale, chilling my bones and relieving the heat in the same instant. It was very much a mixed bag.

“What’s new, Magog?”

“The usual, please.”

Turning over my ID so the authorities could trace me should I go off, I received my lethal weapons, ready to do some damage.

“You really should have booked ahead, but there’s no one else coming in, so I’ll make an exception,” Lucy reprimanded me.

“Thanks, pal.”

“Want to talk about it?”

“It’s nothing,” I said, strapping on my quiver.

“I know you, bud. This is not nothing. You have the same look you did before you took down that tree with the sword you made in metal shop.”

“It was a misunderstanding.”

“I’ve always wondered, what part of ‘name plaque’ sounded like ‘broadsword’ to you?”

“It was a creative interpretation,” I said, checking the balance of my string.

“That ended with two cabins being crushed by a maple?”

“No one was in them,” I reminded her.

“Which is why no charges were pressed.”

“I rebuilt them.”

“Which is why they allowed you back,” Lucy pointed out.

No matter what I tried, there was just no arguing with her. Lucy had the memory of a quiz champ.

“Remember the girl I told you about?”

“Brigid?”

“Yeah, it kind of went south.”

“You really liked her, didn’t you?”

“Yeah, I did. I’ll get over it eventually, I just need to shoot something and I’m not looking for a murder change.”

The thirtieth arrow punched into the poor, besieged target, marking the last of what would have been many death blows had the bullseye been sentient. I shook my head to try and clear away the blood I half-imagined I saw running down from the big red center circle.

It won’t get any better, you know.

The wise voice in my head that counseled me in my darkest moments had finally put in an appearance.

“I fucking know that.”

You have to talk to her, boy.

“You make it sound so easy.”

It is easy. Once you have accepted your fate.

Suddenly, I had an idea. I ran out of the range so fast I almost took my long brown bow and empty quiver with me.

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