Silly Squirrel: Curvy Woman Romance (Mountain Man Wild Animal Rescue Book 2) by Brynn Hale

Author:Brynn Hale [Hale, Brynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

6

Cain

I check the time on my phone, then my watch, and then back to my phone, and finally I crane my neck to stare at the large clock hanging above the diner’s neon sign.

Messing with my rolled-up sleeves, for the eighth time, something feels way off. It’s a diner, not a fancy joint. But I still dressed clean. Jeans without holes, and a flannel I would wear to Thanksgiving dinner. I even tried that product in my hair Ashe offered me at the station, it keeps his hair in place. I used a lot less than him, just enough that the spring wind would make me look like a mess.

I daydreamed all day how Jodi would look...a dress? Maybe something warmer, I rarely saw her in anything but her work clothes.

Excluding this morning.

But as the clock strikes six-thirty p.m., I’m beginning to think that I’ll only ever see Jodi in my dreams. She’s a single parent, it’s probably not uncommon to run late, but with Kolter off at the Bradley’s, there’s little excuse there. I know she knows my number and a call would do just fine. Anything but this glaring radio silence.

But I also tamp down those feelings with concern. The mountains can be an unforgiving place and with how much baiting of animals Kolter’s been doing, I can imagine a plethora of wild animals making her place a regular haunt.

I text.

Cain: I’m at the diner. You coming?

I consider asking one of the rangers to do a drive-by but that would raise a whole lot of questions that I’m not ready to deal with.

By 6:45 and with not a peep, I give up and order something. I'm taking up a booth on a weekend night, it’s a hot commodity. My waitress, Susan Hollins, one of town’s oldest members, gives me a pitying look.

She slides into the booth, sitting opposite me, jotting my order down.

“It’ll just be me, Susan,” I sigh, handing over my menu.

“No hot date for a good-looking man like you?” She winks at me and I smile weakly taking the gesture more creepily than she probably intended.

“I thought I did. I guess I’ve been stood up.”

She cocks her head to the side and leans in like she’s expecting more details. There’d be gossip in town if I let out a peep to her, but as I looked into those cloudy green eyes, I realize if I lit that fire, maybe Jodi couldn’t avoid me and she’d be smoked out of hiding. “I was supposed to see Jodi Duggy tonight.”

Her eyes light up with delight. Clapping a hand to her mouth she muffles her awe. “I worked!”

“What worked?”

“That’s why I called Kolter in last week. He’s not doing anything wrong, but I knew…I just knew you two would be right for each other. She needs someone strong like you and Kolter needs a dad.”

As much as I want to agree with her. I can’t help but want to stand up for her. “Jodi’s doing damn well on her own and Kolter doesn’t need anything but her love.

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