Harvest Moon Homecoming (Sweet Haven Farm Sweet Small Town Romance Book 1) by Jessie Gussman

Author:Jessie Gussman [Gussman, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Published by: Jessie Gussman
Published: 2022-01-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Fink floated on air the rest of the day. He remembered to tell the janitorial staff about the school and grounds for Friday, and sent a group email to all the teachers about the visitors. He went through the motions of his job, but Ellie and the way the sunlight had hit her face and hair this afternoon when he walked in filled his mind. Her beautiful eyes. The delighted expression on her face when she saw him. He could come home to that every day. Easily.

Between thinking about Ellie, he also researched different ways of building the float. By the time he ran into the shed to escape the cold drizzle that evening, he was confident he had plans ready that would work.

Ellie and a young, maybe college-aged, man looked up when he burst in.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t realize you were here.” He’d figured they’d be up at the office/shop. Or maybe the house. He turned to walk back outside into the drizzle.

“Stay, Fink. We’re almost done,” Ellie called.

He stepped back in, closing the door behind him.

She turned to the man at her side. “As I was saying, this is the shed where we keep most of our tools.” She waved her arm around, indicating the loaded shelves. “Have you ever used a chainsaw?”

“Nope.” The kid scratched his head. “Didn’t have much need of one in the development where I grew up.”

“Okay. You’d have to learn how. The customers are given handsaws to cut their trees down with, but if we have a big order to fill—sometimes we’ll load several tractor trailers, especially at the beginning of the season—a handsaw just doesn’t cut it.”

Fink smiled at her paronomasia, but the kid didn’t seem to notice.

“Aren’t they kind of dangerous?” The boy shifted on his feet.

Ellie stopped. Fink bit back a snort at her dumbfounded expression.

She ran a hand over her frizzed-out hair. “Well, yeah. You have to be careful.”

“I thought working on a Christmas tree farm would be kinda fun. I didn’t realize I’d have to cut down trees. Isn’t that like destroying Mother Earth?” He bunched his lips together and crossed his arms over his chest.

“We plant new ones. It’s fun.”

Fink coughed to hide his laugh. Saying “it’s fun” through clenched teeth like Ellie just did made her sound like a parent saying spinach really does taste good. “But it’s work too. You said you worked at the fast food place in town?”

“Yeah.”

“Why are you quitting?”

“Those idiots schedule me to be at work at five thirty in the morning. Normal people don’t get out of bed that early. And it’s only minimum wage.” He slouched against the tractor.

Ellie shook her head. “Have you ever driven a tractor?”

“We had a lawnmower when I was little, but my mom would never let me run it.”

“You’d have to learn that too.”

Fink dealt with kids like this all the time and was impressed Ellie didn’t roll her eyes.

“It’s kinda big.”

“Yeah. So.” Ellie slapped her hands on her pants. “I think that’s all.

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