Fiancée By Christmas: A Happy Acres Romance by Quinn Taryn

Author:Quinn, Taryn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rainbow Rage Publishing
Published: 2021-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Rachel

No Strings Was the Deal

The pancetta, or bacon to me, popped and snapped in the pan. Willow would slap me for saying it too—but it sure looked and smelled like it. Okay, maybe a little better. Fancy, kinda like this whole deal.

I shook the pan to make sure all the little pieces were doing their thing before I took another sip of wine. And this was definitely not a twenty-dollar bottle like I usually drank.

Clue number seventeen telling me he had more money than he was owning up to. He was probably one of those richie rich city guys who liked to buy property in Upstate New York for tax reasons. Granted, this was a little northwest of the usual places people flocked to.

Scarsdale was considered upstate to most Manhattanites. They were also incorrect on a number of levels. Regardless of the status of Clay’s bank account, I still couldn’t get a good read on him. He was smart, that was for sure. He made my body light up like one of his fancy Christmas trees, and he was fairly self-contained when it came to details about himself.

Okay, I was too, but for good reason.

We were temporary.

I didn’t need to air all my dirty laundry when we were just bouncing on one another for a few weeks. He’d go back to his life and I’d…

What?

I didn’t even know what I’d do after the seasonal aspect of this job. The Christmas Tree Farm wouldn’t need me once the last tree was sold for the year. Jim and Mary handled the propagation portion of things, taking care of the trees that would be ready for next year in a behind the scenes manner that didn’t include me. They even had a crew who cared for the seedlings due to be planted.

They were always talking about the science-ish stuff that I couldn’t begin to comprehend, along with taking dirt samples I was less than interested in. I liked my photos and spreadsheets, thanks.

But the important question in there was…what next?

Did I go back to the city?

Did I start over?

My partner, Natalie, had taken over after…well, after. She’d had the drive and desire to do it all along, but now I could see I’d held her back. Controlling everything, making all the decisions, being everything to everyone until I’d simply imploded.

In a spectacular way.

That was enough of that line of thinking. I had been Rachel with a plan for so long, I didn’t know how to just be Rachel. That was why I was here, figuring her out.

Figuring me out.

I turned off the flame and moved the pan to the back of the stove. Another minute and the pancetta would definitely be dusty and crusty. I refilled my wine and wandered out of his kitchen. My breath caught again, same as when I walked in. Each part of the main section of the house seemed to be its own series of arches and joints. The wood was bent into an intricate, vaulted ceiling.

Even

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