The Hard Way by Jill Sanders

Author:Jill Sanders [Sanders, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945100307
Publisher: Grayton Press

Chapter 15

The following morning, he stepped out onto the back porch and smiled at the strip of black silk that hung over the lounge chair. Part of him wanted to let it stay there, but the more practical part of him picked it up and tucked it into his pocket before heading to the hardware store.

He had to get some more light bulbs to replace the ones in the stairwell that had gone out yesterday. He also wanted to get a few more of those lounge chairs and maybe an outdoor sofa. If people were going to spend a lot of time outside, he wanted to make sure it was comfortable for them.

The doors to the Hard Way were officially opening later that day. Mel and TK had come up with their hours of operations—eleven to ten, Monday through Saturday.

Since they had the day off tomorrow, he figured he would do something special with Mel, maybe take her into the city or into the hills on a hike. Did she even like hiking?

The more he thought about it, the more he realized he didn’t know a lot about what Mel liked and disliked. He knew a little about her past and what she liked sexually, but, otherwise, she was an enigma.

That was something he was determined to fix over the next few days. Once again, he bumped into people he knew or had worked with at the hardware store. Normally, it wasn’t an issue, but this time when he spotted Mark, he quickly darted down a different aisle and tried to avoid the man.

After his meeting with his lawyer, he’d been assured that everything was on the up and up, but he’d heard through the small town’s grapevine that Mark had filed an injunction to get his property back from Brent.

Don had assured him that there was nothing Mark could do at this point and had filed a counter injunction to reverse Mark’s injunction so that he could keep the Hard Way’s doors open during the legal battle.

But that didn’t keep Mark from running his mouth all over town, claiming that Brent had somehow stolen the land out from under him.

The way Brent figured it, the longer he avoided the man, the better. Someday soon, Mark was going to get the news that there wasn’t anything he could do to get his land back.

As far as Brent knew, Mark had known what he was doing that night. It wasn’t as if he’d been so drunk that he’d hadn’t been sound enough to get the papers notarized. Brent wouldn’t have known that he’d needed anything notarized, having never purchased property himself before.

The more he thought about it, the more the realization that he was a property owner hit him. Smiling, he walked up to the counter to pay for his items.

He was halfway across the parking lot, shuffling his three bags of items out to his truck, when he was blindsided by a blow to the back of his head. Two of his bags flew out of his hands.

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