Shifters in the Night by Molly Harper

Author:Molly Harper [Harper, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781641971959
Publisher: NYLA

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JON

The next few days were a mixed bag for Jon. That bag contained little gold stars mixed in with a lot of manure.

Things were already looking up for Carmody & Sons. With Eva’s help, he was working through his waitlist at double speed and his clients were thrilled. He was taking on more jobs without that rock-like sense of dread sinking his belly.

And he was enjoying his time in the shop a lot more than he used to. Eva was fun to spend the workday with. She worked quickly and cleverly, and made no excuses. She seemed to know when he wanted to talk and when he didn’t. Overall, his fears of sharing his shop with a non-Carmody had all come to nothing.

So you would think he would feel elbow-deep in clover, but no. Even since the incident he’d come to think of as “the most awkward eye contact in the world,” he’d had this strange, nagging feeling that he’d lost something. And he couldn’t even be mad about it. Lia had looked so happy and relaxed, sitting there with Lancaster. They were engaged in a conversation she clearly found fascinating, the way she was laughing – probably about modern art or something. (Lancaster looked like a modern art kind of guy.) And yeah, it was gutting, seeing her there with someone else, enjoying herself, but she just looked so content. He wanted that for her. He got the feeling she hadn’t had much of it in her constantly shifting life.

So he’d sat with his back to her, because then at the very least, he didn’t have to watch her enjoy herself so thoroughly. And for days, he’d kept to the house, telling himself that he was just focused on getting into the work groove with Eva. He wasn’t sulking or trying to avoid seeing Lia in town. He was being a responsible adult-shaped man. For the most part.

When Lia didn’t “wander” into his yard again, he figured that he was doing the right thing. Obviously, she didn’t want to see him, either. He was doing them both a favor.

And then his brother had to come in with his meddling bossiness and mess it all up.

It was a weeknight and he was freshly showered, having sweated his way through refitting an engine on a speedboat, with Eva’s help. He was exhausted, but it was a good kind of tired, knowing that he was doing what was needed to support himself and build his grandfather’s business back up.

He walked out on his dock, contemplating whether he was up to cooking for himself or if he should accept defeat and heat up one of his frozen lasagnas. He looked down the shoreline to see Eva, sitting on the edge of the water. But why was she sitting on the ground when he had a comfortable dock?

Eva had been a fantastic “tenant” so far. He stuck to the house and she stuck to her impeccably kept trailer. But now he wondered if he should have done more to make her feel welcome.

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