Picture Perfect by Chris Keniston

Author:Chris Keniston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Indie House Publishing
Published: 2021-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

There was only one thing that had happened in the last few minutes that Glenn was sure of—he didn’t want to let go of Kelly’s hand. He felt like a kid crushing on the new girl in school, and tripping over his own hormones in the process. When that man walked up to Kelly with so much familiarity, it took everything in Glenn not to scoop her up and carry her someplace far away from any competition for her attention. Of course the whole idea was ridiculous. The man was harmless, and Glenn had no right to behave so possessively.

He might feel like a teenager, but he was a grown man with a good head on his shoulders, and the manners his mother had taught him. Breathing in and out, nice and slow, he raised their laced fingers in front of them. “Is this okay?”

Time seemed to stand almost still for the fraction of a moment it took for her to nod her head. The teenager in him bounced back to life, ready to grin like a fool and prance around the fairgrounds showing off the prettiest girl in town. The grown man with a good head on his shoulders settled for a soft smile and another hour or so of shopping.

Somewhere between the needlepoint Christmas stockings that cost way more than any reasonable person should have paid, but he knew his sister would absolutely adore, and the apron with Don’t Get Your Tinsel In A Tangle embroidered across the front for his grandmother, they’d stopped at the games corner. Grown men tossed candy cane painted horseshoes with the seriousness of an Olympic competition. Iris and Eric’s niece and nephew had challenged Kelly and him to a game of corn hole.

Kelly carefully aimed, gently swung her arm, and let the bag sail across to the wooden board. Despite her effort, the bag slid over the top and onto the ground.

“At least you got it on the board this time.” Glenn walked beside her, retrieving the four bags.

“I suppose. But I still think corn hole is a silly name for this.”

In all his years growing up across the globe with his military family, he’d missed that the outdoor game of pitching bean bags onto a wooden board with holes cut out was called corn hole.

Clutching her four bags against her chest, Emily crossed back to her spot for the next round. “Uncle Eric says it’s because the bean bags used to be filled with corn not beans. So the goal of the game is to get the corn in the hole. I guess they got lazy and shortened it to corn hole.”

“That actually makes sense. Thank you Emily.” Kelly leveled her gaze with his and he could read the same thought running through his mind in her eyes. Outsmarted by a little kid.

By the time the sun was setting and the colored lights illuminated the tree and street decorations, everyone in the family had migrated to meet up at the same spot in front of the hardware store on Main Street for the parade.

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