Sugar Moon (Vermonters Forever) by Ali Dean

Author:Ali Dean [Dean, Ali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

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I could have made an offer on at least three of the properties I’ve seen and felt good about it. But I couldn’t make up my mind, and I knew what the problem was.

I didn’t want to move out. I’d never wanted to move in, and now I couldn’t bring myself to leave.

She’d go back to eating Ben and Jerry’s in the morning. She’d sleep here with the doors unlocked. She could get hit on the road by a drunk driver and no one would know because no one would be waiting for her to get back from her run.

I had all kinds of excuses, but I knew Charlie could take care of herself just fine without me.

The real reason I didn’t want to move was because of how it would affect me, not her.

I liked being able to see her every day, knowing what she was up to. It wasn’t healthy, it only fed into my creepy infatuation, but it didn’t even feel like a creepy infatuation anymore, and I didn’t know what to make of that. Charlie wasn’t some ethereal creature, she was real, and she got even realer every day I lived here. I couldn’t stop thinking about her, worrying about her, wanting to make her happy. She did seem happier since I first moved in, and while I liked to take the credit, I sensed it wasn’t about me.

She’d come to some sort of peace about Mia moving out, and was jumping from one thing to the next, constantly with friends or family. I wondered when she’d start seeing someone new. It had been almost two months since that Topher guy and I’d had the impression that she never stayed single for long. There was a line of guys just waiting for the opportunity to catch her eye. It was almost funny to witness, if it didn’t make me so damn furious.

“What is it about the Stony Brook property that’s stopping you from making an offer? I can tell it’s still your favorite. Is it the fact you’d have to build a house since the one on it needs to be razed?”

We’re walking down the sidewalk to my truck from the Sugarville Country store, where we just sat outside eating ice cream cones.

“Yeah, that’s part of it.” Originally, the year-long process of building a house was a deterrent. While getting the chance to design it the way I liked would be cool, I hadn’t wanted to be stuck as Charlie’s roommate for a year. Now, I liked the excuse to stay.

“Would the inheritance cover the cost of a new build? Do you want me to price out what you have in mind so you have a sense of what to expect?”

I was debating how to answer this when we nearly collided with Jane Bright, Mia’s sister and the youngest of the five Bright siblings.

Charlie noticed her just in time and stepped to the side before calling out her name.

“Jane Bright! Didn’t anyone tell you to

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