Her Snowbound Hero by Ivy James

Author:Ivy James
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-946863-55-3
Publisher: Kindred Spirits Publishing

Chapter 14

“OF COURSE.” She tried, oh, how she tried, but his lion eyes wouldn’t let her look away. “I know you’re angry but—”

“Why?” he insisted.

“Garret—”

“I’m not talking about Garret. Would you care if I left?”

What did he expect her to say? “You’re a good friend, Tobias. If you hadn’t helped me with the permit, I wouldn’t be able to open.”

“In other words, I’m the go-to boy when Garret is busy.”

“Of course not! I meant—What do you want me to say?” The words came out sharper than she’d intended.

“Nothing. I don’t expect you to say anything. I was just wondering if you’d actually have an opinion of your own.”

The cut on her hand hurt like crazy but Tobias’s comment caused more pain. She had plenty of opinions, plenty of brains and—“I’d care. What kind of space are you looking for? There’s an empty office above the gallery here.”

Joss turned away and stooped to pick up the box cutter. Her father would be furious. Garret wouldn’t care, of course, but her father—

“You want to rent me the space upstairs?” He sounded surprised. No wonder. She wasn’t sure why she’d offered.

“I merely mentioned it’s available,” she corrected, trying to backpedal and not doing a good job of it. “It’s sitting there and the rent would help meet my payment. Never mind. You obviously aren’t interested.”

“I’m interested.”

She closed her eyes. “I should probably mention it to Garret before—”

“Can I see it?”

“Now?”

“Why mention me renting it if I don’t like it? Show it to me, and then I’ll help you unpack all of this and put it wherever it needs to go. I don’t have anything else to do at the moment. Wellington told me to get the hell out so I packed up my stuff and left.”

“You said you gave notice.”

“I lied.” He shoved his big hands into his pockets. “It sounded better than saying I told him where he could stick his partnership and got fired.”

“Good for you.” She swallowed, her heart beating a little too fast. Why should she care that Tobias told Wellington off? Why should she feel proud of him? But she did. Because she wanted to do the same with her father. Wanted to stand up to him and people like Mr. Wellington, prove their meanness and hatefulness would come back to haunt them because the people they disregarded would rise above their sad behavior. “Let me get the keys and a Band-Aid.”

“I’ll come with you.”

Too aware of Tobias following her, she entered the office and grabbed the first-aid kit. While she sprayed the cut with antiseptic, he opened a Band-Aid. Did his hands tremble, just a little? Or was that hers? Finally the protective strip was in place and they were on their way upstairs in the old-fashioned elevator.

“So…have you talked to Garret today?”

“Earlier, yes.” Why hadn’t she noticed how slow the elevator was before? “Briefly.” Finally the elevator settled into place. “Here we are.” The third floor spread out in front of them. “The area is only about two thousand square feet.

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