Sold! In the Show Me State by Jessie Gussman

Author:Jessie Gussman
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Jessie Gussman
Published: 2020-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The next morning, Chandler was still slightly shocked that Ivory had been able to so completely get him to stop digging the fence post holes.

He had to admit, as they left the house after breakfast, it actually made him feel pretty good. Almost like she cared about him.

Of course he wasn’t entirely certain, because she wouldn’t admit it, but he was pretty sure that she lay down on the blanket and made up that baloney about the clouds just to see if she could get him to fall asleep, and then when he’d woken up midafternoon, she’d said she needed help moving a bale in the barn before she fed.

He never had come back to the fence other than to get his tools and put them away for the night.

Now today, she was asking him to take a look at her tractor since she was going to be using it to bale hay soon. He suspected this was another ploy to keep him from using his hands on the fence, but again, he didn’t ask.

“What did you say was wrong with it again?” Fixing machinery wasn’t exactly his best area, although he’d done it growing up. What farmer hadn’t? Something was always breaking down.

“I’m not sure exactly, but maybe you can just go over it and make sure everything is running correctly.”

“It’s always helpful to have an idea of what one is looking for when one is trying to fix something.” She couldn’t see his skeptical look, since she was walking in front of him, but surely she could hear it in his tone.

He followed her down the path, his eyes on her bulky sweatshirt and the gentle sway of her skirt around her ankles. Her leg must still be hurting her, since she was still wearing a skirt. She hadn’t complained.

She walked with confidence, and he just couldn’t bring himself to ask if this was her way of getting him out of using his hands. They did hurt.

As long as he kept his hands still, they were fine, but the idea of gripping the post hole digger and pounding it into the ground made his back muscles tighten painfully and twitch simply from anticipating how badly his hands were going to hurt.

Whether it was a ploy, or whether she really needed help with the tractor, he was going to go along with it.

They reached the barn, and she slid the door open, leaving it open, probably for the light, after they walked through.

“We could probably start with changing the oil. I have the filters and everything here. I was just kind of waiting for a rainy day to do it. But since you’re already going to be looking at it, maybe you can do that, too.”

“Yeah. That’s not a problem. Good idea to start there.”

Her tractor wasn’t quite as old as he was, but it definitely wasn’t new. He liked the fact that it didn’t have a cab, and he smiled a little at the thought that he’d

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