Only See You (Only Colorado Book 2) by JD Chambers

Author:JD Chambers [Chambers, JD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-05T16:00:00+00:00

14

Parker

Thursday after work, I head to the Fort Collins bike shop to pick up my brand-new mountain bike. I placed the order on Monday during my lunch break. I still haven’t made a decision about moving back home for my mom, but I’ve decided I’m going to take advantage of the time I have with Mal.

I also had a roof rack installed, and it took the guy at the bike shop less than thirty seconds to get my bike up on top of my car and securely locked in place. I don’t know what kind of sorcery or deal with the devil he had to make to be able to do that, because I’ve been struggling with lowering the arm for two minutes now. I take off my winter coat and roll up my sleeves. Fuck you, bike rack. I’m serious now.

Finally some weird synchronized twist and tug unlocks the arm, but I’m so focused on the arm that I haven’t been stabilizing the rest of the bike, which crashes onto my head. Yes, folks, I’m a world-class engineer.

“Ow, fuck!”

“Are you okay?” a stranger calls from across the parking lot. Nice to know I had witnesses.

“Yeah, thanks!” I wave back, and try to lift the bike, which is still stuck because I’ve forgotten to unclamp the back tire.

By the time I’ve finally got the bike down from the car and up the stairs, my nice work shirt is soaked with sweat and marked with black dirt and tire streaks.

“What on earth are you doing?” Ben asks when I clamber through the doorway, clumsily ramming the bike into every nearby wall. “Whoa, there.” He jogs over from his spot eating nachos in front of the TV, and gracefully takes the bike from my hands, carrying it into the living room and setting it against a bare wall. Fucker.

“I bought a bike.”

“No shit,” Ben says. “Did you buy the special possessed model that runs you over?”

“Ha ha. Very funny,” I say on my way to the kitchen for a glass of water. “Mal offered to show me some good bike trails. I thought I’d take them up on it.”

“Really?” Ben follows me in and grabs a soda from the fridge. “First a road trip, and now you’re going to go biking with Mal?”

“Sure. What’s wrong with that?” I say around a cool swallow that shouldn’t taste this good. If wrestling with the bike took that much energy, god knows what the actual trail will do to me. And I’m in great shape, damn it.

“Nothing.” Ben shrugs and heads back to his nachos and TV. “I just wouldn’t have expected the two of you to become friends, is all. You seem so different.”

“And who would you expect?” I ask, unable to keep the bitterness from my voice as I stand beside the couch and glare down at him. “Shelby? And here I thought you were the least judgy person I know.”

Ben seems taken aback, like he wasn’t expecting such a strong reaction to his comment.

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