Pretty as a Peach by Sawyer Bennett

Author:Sawyer Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781940883762
Publisher: Sawyer Bennett
Published: 2018-02-16T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Colt

It’s practically a zoo when I pull up to Farrington Farms Monday afternoon. I knew Darby would be elbow deep in the planting of the peach trees. All the holes had been dug in the prior days with a large auger, and she had tractor-trailers bringing in ten-acres worth of two-year-old nursery-raised peach trees today. There was a good chance I would be doing nothing more than getting in her hair with my visit.

Didn’t stop me, though.

The pasture on the opposite side of the gravel driveway that leads up to the main house is filled with several vehicles, mostly trucks. I assume those are the temporary workers Darby hired. There is a large flatbed tractor-trailer taking up the entire eastbound lane of the highway that runs perpendicular to the farm road. It’s completely empty. The workers look to be transferring the last load of trees onto a tractor with a flatbed cart attached to it, which will then transport the trees out to the orchard.

I see Darby immediately, looking as fetching as ever. She’s got on a heavy flannel shirt, jeans, and work boots. She’s got her strawberry-blonde hair in a ponytail with a baseball cap on her head. Pointing to some of the workers, she seems to be giving them instructions regarding the trees.

I’m not sure what it is about a woman in charge and running her own farm that makes her singularly attractive to me, but Darby McCulhane pushes every one of my buttons. I grab the bunch of wildflowers off the passenger seat of my truck and hop out. Making my way toward her, I watch as she effortlessly directs people to do different things. When I get just a few feet from her, it’s as if she can sense my presence, and she turns toward me with a smile already in place.

Her eyes cut to the flowers in my hand and then back to my face.

“What are you doing here?” she chirps as she walks my way, that ponytail bouncing back and forth because of the pep in her step.

“Well, seeing as how my entire vineyard has been planted and there’s nothing left to do but some minor irrigation modifications, I thought I would come hang out with you this afternoon and watch how a peach orchard gets started.” I hold the flowers out to her, and she takes them. “And here are some wildflowers I stopped to pick from the side of the road.”

It’s so cute when Darby lifts the loose bouquet to her nose and breathes them in deeply. I don’t think they smell all that spectacular, but they were so pretty on the side of the road I couldn’t resist. She gives a dreamy sigh and opens her eyes to stare at me. “Now that’s romantic.”

I give a careless shrug as if I do romantic stuff all the time. I don’t, but I think I will be starting based on her reaction. “So how’s it going today?”

She jerks her chin over her shoulder toward the tractor-trailer.

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