Love on Tap by Karis Walsh

Author:Karis Walsh [Walsh, Karis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781626395657
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, Inc.
Published: 2016-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Tace was jolted out of a restless sleep early Saturday morning by a crashing sound coming from the kitchen.

“Tace? Come down here!” Berit’s voice called to her from the bottom of the stairs.

She was out of bed and running down the steep, narrow staircase before she was fully aware of what was happening. She pictured Berit lying in a heap on the kitchen floor, her wheelchair tipped on its side. Instead she found Berit fully dressed and smiling, holding the two saucepans she’d been banging together.

“What the hell are you doing?” Tace hadn’t slept much since she and Berit had kissed. She’d lain awake, tossing and turning in a desperate attempt to ignore the desire she didn’t want to feel for Berit, until she’d finally dozed off near dawn. She squinted out the kitchen window. The sky was gray and yellow just before sunrise. “What time is it?”

“You said you always wanted to watch the balloons getting filled and taking off,” Berit said. “Hurry and get dressed or we’ll miss it.”

“I was hoping you’d forgotten about the festival,” Tace said. Her words were partially true. She’d been distressed by Berit’s bossiness in the wheat fields and would have preferred to avoid being in her company. Berit expected Tace to commit herself to this brewery, admit she cared about it, but doing so would only wound her in the long run. Tace supposed she deserved the lecture after delivering one of her own, when she had pushed Berit to break out of her comfort zone and fully accept the role of teacher, but Tace had only said those things to Berit because she could see how much doing a good job for her students meant to her. Had Berit really seen the same hidden hopes in Tace? If so, Tace had better get busy and crush her foolish aspirations before they destroyed her. She had gotten this far in life—and would get her siblings even further if possible—by focusing on what she could achieve. A nice home, as few bills as possible, and whatever help she could offer Chris and Kyle.

Still, the thought of going to the festival with Berit was too enticing to refuse. “I’ll go, as long as you stop making such a racket.”

“Deal,” Berit said. She put the pans on the counter and held up her hands in surrender. “Quiet as a mouse. Just get ready to go!”

Tace jogged up the stairs again and got in the shower. She’d admittedly been a tiny bit resentful when she’d needed to give up her newly decorated and comfortable downstairs rooms and move into the cramped attic suite, but she’d since had a change of heart. Her books filled the shelves in what was supposed to be Berit’s study, and her personal items made the other rooms look cozy. She spent most of her time in the bedroom she’d used when she was very small, either reading in bed or in a chair by the dormer window. Somehow, childhood dreams

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