Her Unexpected Detour (Checkerberry Inn) by Kyra Jacobs

Author:Kyra Jacobs [Jacobs, Kyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Entangled: Bliss
Published: 2015-09-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Monday morning dawned bright and sunny, not a cloud in the sky. The weekend’s wintery mix had been replaced by an unusually warm and dry forecast. Gone was the musty, damp chill in the air, and yesterday’s sunshine seemed to have dried the Checkerberry’s grounds considerably.

Too bad the weather was doing nothing to clear Kayla from his mind. Only a day of backbreaking labor might be able to do that. Even then, Brent’s chances were still slim to none.

I never should have gone to that stupid bar last night, he thought for the hundredth time as he drove his truck to the far corner of Ruby’s property. Never should have played the Good Samaritan on Friday, either. Sure, he’d finally gotten laid, but was a night of passion really worth all this heartache?

Miles would say hell yes. Though that was because the man seemed to have no conscience when it came to loving and leaving the beauties of Mount Pleasant. Brent, however, wasn’t wired like that. Sometimes, he wished he was.

Like now.

He parked the Silverado near a damaged section of fence that separated Ruby’s land from that of her neighbor, Hank Billings. It’d been Hank’s wife’s brilliant idea a few years back to start raising alpacas. They’re beautiful, she’d said. Their fleece will bring us money, he’d said.

They’ve gone and broken my darned fence again, is what Ruby said. Again, and again, and again.

“Mindless beasts,” Brent grumbled, surveying the most recent damage.

Actually, it wasn’t so much that they were mindless as they seemed to be running around blind—with desire. Either the Billings were feeding them aphrodisiacs, or it was mating season. Brent shook his head, trying to free his mind from the scene he’d discovered behind the barn just this morning. All that braying and grunting. Christ, he’d about lost his breakfast.

The worst part was, four-legged fence-wreckers or not, at least they had mates. All he had was his work and a hairy black beast named Bear. Which was all he really needed, he reminded himself as he dragged the broken railing aside. And the sooner he got that through his thick skull, the better.

Brent pulled on a pair of work gloves and set about wrestling the fence post loose from its hole in the ground. The sun beat down on his back, and in no time he’d broken a sweat. Soon he stopped to strip out of his fleece outer layer. A blue jay cried in the distance, drawing Brent’s gaze out over the hilly green countryside. The sight was as familiar to him as breathing; he’d been over every inch of Ruby’s land more times than he could count. And yet, the joy that sight usually brought evaded him this morning.

It was no great mystery why. And though he’d ordered himself to push her from his thoughts, the memory of Kayla continued to haunt him. Their time together last night had been like a shot of endorphins straight to his heart, jump-starting the organ from its long-dormant state.

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