Love Finds Home: Small-Town Romantic Suspense (Boulder Canyon Book 3) by CM Smith

Author:CM Smith [Smith, CM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lots of Pages, LLC
Published: 2024-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Ranger

I went back to Elle’s place after she walked to the shop and looked at her porch. It was covered with petals and a box. The box worried me until I saw who it was from. I figure a package from Jorge is pretty safe and I don’t need to open it or destroy it, but why did she leave it? Why hasn’t she been home? What the fuck do the petals mean? She’s stayed mostly hidden in her studio all day and night, rarely stepping out. I’ve seen a few food deliveries, but that’s it. No visitors, no leaving. Except when she slinks out at night, runs home, changes the lights that are on inside, and runs back. It’s driving me crazy that I can’t be close to her. Touch her. Make sure she’s okay.

I’ve stayed close, subsisting on coffee and the occasional cigarette when I’m desperate. I’ve been seeing clients during the day and splitting my nights between the asshole and Elle. We all leave next week for the Cove, and I’m so ready to be out of this town for a weekend, but at what cost? I’ll be in direct closeness with Elle while all her brothers watch over her. I heard Keith is also planning on joining us. Woo. My enthusiasm knows no bounds at that, which makes my instructions for the wedding almost comical. They are to show up and not be a grumpy asshole. I promised Tiny to give it my best try. He told me to fuck off, and we laughed. I’ve also been recruited to be the muscle for the moms. It seems that while Tiny and Davis might be great friends, their mothers are like two peas in a pod.

Elle is leaving earlier than everyone else because she’s got a thing at her art gallery. We’re all invited Friday night where I’ve been promised cheap appetizers and beer. Better than the cheap wine people usually drink at these things. If that means I have to put on a monkey suit for a few hours and act human while looking at art I don’t understand, I guess I’ll survive.

Barbie cleared my schedule for the long weekend but is keeping the shop open. She’s bringing in some guys from Baltimore we served with who opened their own shop to assist. You wouldn’t think a small tattoo shop in the middle of nowhere on a mountain range would be busy, but our talent and name precede us. The guys coming in have already filled up hours of their time with clients who live closer to Boulder Canyon than Baltimore. It’ll be exposure for us, and hopefully some new clientele as well.

Tonight Tiny and Joker are both at the shop with me. Music is filtering down from upstairs, but that’s the only sign that Elle is in residence. Tiny looks lost since Lottie is working an overnight shift at the vet clinic and Nat deserted him to stay with Trish and Harper.

“Elle know you’re here?” I ask Tiny when they get settled.

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