Grind (Powertools: The Original Crew Returns Book 3) by Jayne Rylon

Author:Jayne Rylon [Rylon, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Happy Endings Publishing
Published: 2020-10-19T18:30:00+00:00

9

It had taken ten long, agonizing days—sped along only by the company she was keeping—but finally Kayla had gotten the call she’d been waiting for. A representative from her insurance company was going to meet her out at Bare Natural, or what little was left of it, the next morning.

They’d hurried back to Devon’s place so Kayla could print out her paperwork, review everything, and try desperately to get a good night’s rest before the big day.

Unfortunately, she was losing her mind instead. “Where the hell did I put the inventory list? I had it in my hand five minutes ago!”

She riffled through the previously neat and now disheveled papers on the cute desk in the corner of Neil, James, and Devon’s living room. Her elbow caught the glass of water Dave had plunked down and ordered her to drink before he’d gone out to the yard to play some kind of sportsball with Neil and James. Of course, she knocked it over. Water spilled across her documentation before the pretty pale blue cup tumbled off the desk and smashed on the hardwood floor.

“Shit! Shit!” Kayla scooped up what remained of it with her bare hand as if that would put it back together.

She should know by now that some things couldn’t be repaired.

“Kayla?” Devon popped her head in from the back porch where she’d been practicing some of the yoga moves Sabra and Holden had taught them while trying to help Kayla calm the fuck down in Middletown. It clearly wasn’t working for her.

“I’m sorry. Shit. I broke it.” She held her palm out, presenting the shards of glass.

“Be careful. You’ll cut yourself. Here.” Devon grabbed a trashcan and guided Kayla’s hand so that she dumped the glittery bits into it.

Pissed that she didn’t seem to be able to do anything right, not even get rid of the evidence of her mistakes, she snipped at Devon, “I’m not a child. I can clean this up.”

Devon withdrew her fingers as if burned. “Okay then. Go ahead. But maybe you should watch where you’re—“

“Ouch!” Kayla hopped on one foot as she plucked a sliver from the other. Fortunately it hadn’t gone in deep.”

“—stepping.”

“What the hell is wrong with me?” Kayla sank to her knees and finished picking up the glass. She knelt there and stared up at Devon.

“Maybe you’re forcing things too hard. Trying to make this happen when it’s not meant to be.” The other woman responded too fast to have thought of it in the moment. How long had she been waiting to say that?

“You think I should give up on Bare Natural?”

“I want you to see that things don’t have to always be like they were to be right.” Devon said it calmly, but her honesty sliced Kayla’s heart open as surely as if Devon had stabbed her with the broken glass. “But it’s okay if you’re not ready to hear that yet. Let’s clean this up. I’ll help you get ready for tomorrow and you can see what the insurance company has to say about it.

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