One Kind Walk by Christine DePetrillo

Author:Christine DePetrillo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: starting over, small town, contemporary romance, kindness, Vermont woods, healing
Publisher: Christine DePetrillo
Published: 2021-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“No, I want to explain, Aliza,” Landon said. “Please let me.” Why in the world did that frigging commercial have to come on now of all times. He’d planned to tell her, but everything had been going so nicely on this date. The thought of telling her he’d be going on a date with some randomly-selected person was a good way to ruin tonight.

And he’d been right. Aliza stood by the couch and Landon missed her heat, her sexy form snuggled up to his.

“It’s your fault the radio station is forcing me to do that contest.” He thrust his hand toward the TV, though the commercial was over now.

“My fault? Forcing you?” Aliza’s eyebrows rose. “What do you mean?”

She’s not automatically leaving. That had to be a good sign. He could explain, make her understand.

“I didn’t want to have anything to do with a contest,” he began. “In fact, my contract clearly protects me from such a promotional event. After you called in to the show, however, and we had our exchange where I advised you to ask the guy in your beef out a second time, the station’s social media blew up. Listeners suspected the conversation was about me and suddenly I became super popular among the station’s fans. So popular that one of the station owners, Mara, came up with this brilliant plan to dangle me like bait to raise money for the station.”

“But if your contract protects you, couldn’t you say no?” Aliza sat back on the couch, but she took the cushion on the other end. Away from him. That wouldn’t do.

“I could say no,” Landon said. “I did say no, multiple times, but then Mara told me that WTRZ isn’t in the best financial situation right now. It has always had a hard time competing with the bigger stations in New England, but evidently things are at a critical point right now. I had no idea. Mara presented this contest as a way to essentially save the station, plus...” He paused then got up to grab the photo of Simone, Rebecca, and Alaska. “Mara is so sure that the contest will draw in so many paying entrants she promised to donate some of the proceeds raised to SoberDrive.”

Aliza’s face instantly relaxed, her gaze sympathetic. “SoberDrive. So doing the contest will help keep more drunk drivers off the roads.”

Landon placed the photo back on the shelf. He sat on the coffee table, his knees right in front of Aliza’s. “For the record, there isn’t a single piece of me that wants to do this contest, Yogi. I swear. I think it’s a horrible idea, but how can I refuse when it will help the station and a cause that is important to me?”

“You can’t.” Slowly she lifted her hand and cupped his cheek. “I have no right to get riled up about you doing the contest either. We are literally on date two here. I have no authority.”

“You have more authority than you think,” he said, putting his hand over hers.

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