Montana Cherries (The Wildes of Birch Bay Book 1) by Kim Law

Author:Kim Law [Law, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2015-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

chapter sixteen

Dani took a sip of her bottled water as she stood camouflaged between two trees, watching Ben heft a lug of cherries and carry it to the nearest bin. She pictured the muscles in his arms and back as he worked. Pictured them unclothed, of course. And pictured them right there in front of her.

She’d touched those muscles. She’d licked those muscles.

Then she pretty much hadn’t spoken to Ben since.

In fact, she hadn’t spoken to a single one of the men over the past few days.

It was day three of picking, and everyone was in their routine, going hard until early afternoon when the heat of the day often called a stop to the action in order to protect the tender skin of the fruit. The migrant workers carried their buckets strapped to their sides, their movements fast and efficient, since they got paid by weight of cherries picked. Jaden, Nick, and Cord were on tractor duty. They drove the trailers from the fields, through the cooling system that would keep the fruit crisp and firm, before depositing them in the barn. Full bins would be stacked and set aside until there was enough to be sent to the packing plant.

It was a well-functioning system, and Dani couldn’t imagine not being a part of it.

She couldn’t imagine her family not running it. But so far, no one had volunteered for the job. She’d considered doing it herself. It’s not like she didn’t know the entire operation. But she couldn’t very well run the farm in Montana and live in New York.

Surely one of her brothers would decide to take it on. Because it was their farm.

She took another drink, and watched Ben as he went for another load. His job involved working directly in the fields, and Dani had been sneaking peeks at him all day. He emptied the cherries into waiting trailers, redistributed ladders from picked trees to unpicked ones, and generally did all kinds of heavy lifting.

And watching him wreaked all kinds of havoc on her tortured mind.

Because, though she knew she shouldn’t have gone to him the other night, the fact remained that she had gone to him. He had a fascinating ability to get her mind off the topics eating at her, and she couldn’t help but want to be distracted by him again.

And it only had a little to do with the fact that she was angry with her entire family.

Mostly, she just wanted to be with Ben.

But he fuzzed up her mind when she got too close to him, therefore she’d avoided him as rigorously as she’d steered clear of everyone else. She’d spent the past three days passing out cold bottles of water to workers, running fresh-picked cherries to the road stand that was being manned by Megan, or running cherries to The Cherry Basket for food to be made on-site.

The crowds up and down the road were heavy this time of year, and business was good.

Therefore she’d barely had time to

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