Not Fake For Long by Parker Weston

Author:Parker, Weston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing
Published: 2021-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

21

HARRISON

After all the talk with Keira about how incredible it was out here, I decided on Monday morning to take the week off from the Hynes Group and drove right back to the farm. There were several urgent things I would have to see to while I was there, but that was what a laptop and an internet connection were for.

There was nothing I could do at the office that I couldn’t do from the comfort of my preferred home. I’d stopped in town to stock up on groceries since it had been a spur of the moment decision and Keira and I had cleaned out what had been left in my fridge for the sandwiches.

With my laptop bag in one hand and the groceries in the other, I trudged up the steps to my door. Ashton’s voice piped up from behind me as I was pushing it open.

“What’re you doing here on a Monday?” he asked. “Did the city get evacuated or something?”

“Or something,” I mumbled. “I took the week off from the office. When I was driving back last night, I realized I was getting burnt out by all the hustle and bustle there.”

“That’s because you weren’t built for that place any more than I was,” he replied, the sound of his footsteps on the stairs letting me know that he was coming in. “Why are you still working there anyway? You keep complaining about the place and you spend every spare minute here. Are you one of those commitment-phobes or something? Too scared to commit to the farm over the city because of what you might miss out on if you’re here?”

“I just got here,” I grumbled when I set my laptop bag down on the small dining-room table that would double as my desk for the week. “Do you really have to start giving me shit before I’ve even put the cream in the fridge?”

He hummed noncommittal noise. “Giving you shit is part of my job. You didn’t happen to buy any coffee to go with that cream, did you?”

“As it happens, I did.” I walked into the kitchen and started unpacking the groceries while he plugged in the coffeemaker and got it going. “What are you doing over here? Don’t you have better things to do than hang around my house when I’m not here?”

He snorted. “I came to find that chicken snake. If you want me to, I can leave him here. We’ll see how well you do with him if you come across him before I do.”

“I’ll be fine, but I’ll help you look for him anyway,” I said. “He seems to have gotten under your skin a little bit.”

“I just have a bone to pick with him, is all,” he grumbled. Reaching for our mugs, he leaned against the counter and watched me unpack while he waited for the coffee. “You really here for the whole week?”

“Yep.” I emptied the last bag of cold stuff and moved over to the pantry to put away the last few things.

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