His First Love by Liz Isaacson

Author:Liz Isaacson [Isaacson, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AEJ Creative Works
Published: 2020-12-22T06:00:00+00:00

Molly had ignored Hunter’s text the night before, so when he showed up with Wes the next morning, her nerves skittered a little bit. “Morning,” she chirped from the doorway of her classroom. “Come on in. It’s right over there.” She indicated the long box she hadn’t even cut the zip ties off of yet.

Hunter swept a kiss along her cheek as he passed, and Wes nodded to her. They opened the box and Wes took control of the instructions. With the three of them working, the bookcase bloomed to life within a half an hour. Molly never would’ve been able to put it together alone, and she smiled as she started moving books from her rickety cases and into the new one.

“Come on, now,” she said. “Help me move all of these books. Then you boys can go.”

Hunter and Wes did what she said, the conversation light and easy as they talked about the summer activities of Hunter’s cousins in Coral Canyon. Before all the books had been moved, Wes’s phone rang, and he said, “It’s my wife. I’ll wait in the truck, Hunt.”

“Yes, sir,” Hunter said, and Molly paused to watch the older man leave. She and Hunter had been alone for the drive back to the farm last night after dinner, but she hadn’t brought up her opinions on his job.

His text screamed through her ears. I know you don’t want me to take the CEO job.

She hadn’t known how to respond, because if he knew, why did she need to affirm what he’d said?

“Are you upset with me?” Hunter asked in a quiet voice.

“No,” Molly said, picking up another handful of Magic Tree House chapter books.

“You didn’t respond to my text last night,” he said.

“I didn’t know how,” she admitted. “I don’t think you should take the job. You know that. What’s there to say?”

“Why don’t you think I should take the job?”

“Because, Hunter, I don’t think it’s the one you want.”

“Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to do.”

“Not something this big,” she argued back. “People say that when they’re talking about running on the treadmill or eating only salads. Cleaning the toilet. That kind of thing.” She stopped working and watched him continue to move books from one shelf to another. “They don’t take jobs as the Chief Executive Officer when they really want to work in a lab. Or on a farm.”

Both of those jobs suited Hunter, and if Molly got to pick which of those, she’d put him back on his family farm with the horses, goats, and chickens.

“Can you stop?” she asked. “Just for a second. Please.”

Hunter set down his armful of books and turned toward her. “I don’t know what you want from me.”

“I want you to choose based on what would make you happy, Hunter. Not what would make someone else happy.” She’d done that far too often, and she did not want to watch him do the same. It never led anywhere good, in her experience.

His jaw jumped as he pressed his teeth together.

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